Producer villager Mehmet Eker, Labor Party's Mudanya Municipal Council Member Candidate, said, 'As we understand it, municipality is not limited to flying planes, giving a few concerts, sweeping the roads and mowing the grass. "It is a municipality approach that solves and strives to solve the problems that affect the lives of the people," he said.
“A MUNICIPALITY UNDERSTANDING THAT SOLVES THE PROBLEMS OF PRODUCER VILLAGERS AND TOUCHES THEIR LIVES IS NEEDED.”
Reminding that the current mayor, Hayri Türkyılmaz, was flying F-2014s under the name of Armistice festivities in 16, when he was first elected, Eker said, “He also underwent an investigation because he exceeded the spending limit given to him by our municipality. If he had not exceeded this spending limit, none of us would be aware of how much money was spent or wasted. A budget of 1.1 million is given, but 1.3 million lira is spent, and an investigation was launched on the grounds that you exceeded the authority, spending limit and authority given by the parliament. What concerns us is not whether it passed an investigation or not, but the money spent. I was the vice president of the Esence Village Agricultural Development Cooperative at that time. He developed a project to build an oil mill, an olive oil factory. If there was cash, a very modern olive oil factory could be built with the money spent. The Development Cooperative built that olive oil factory two years later. In other words, municipalism, as we understand it, is not limited to flying planes, holding a few concerts, sweeping roads and mowing lawns. We have an understanding of municipality that solves and tries to solve the problems that affect their lives, including the producers and the producer villagers, and is in front of the villagers, in front of the producers and touches their lives, both with the municipal budget, and economically, by leading with wisdom and personnel when necessary. We are here to show it, to prove its possibility. Which we have done in the past. He stated that "it was during the period when we were Village Headmen, when we established and managed Development Cooperatives."
Eker said that Mudanya is a serious producer of black figs, but it has neither a cooperative, nor a union nor an organization, and added: "Again, under the leadership of Mudanya Municipality, the fig producers in Mudanya are organized in black figs, such as olives, hazelnuts, grapes, and agricultural-sales cooperatives." "Our first goal is to prove that a union of agricultural-sales cooperatives is possible," he said.
“OPENING PRODUCTIVE AGRICULTURAL AREAS FOR DEVELOPMENT IS A SERIOUS CRIME”
Drawing attention to the fact that agricultural lands in Mudanya have been opened to development without a plan, Eker said, "Since there are serious rents, areas that can be cultivated for many years, hundreds of years, are opened to development and construction, but agriculture cannot be done, there are mountains and stones with no grass growing." They don't open it up for development because the construction costs are a bit high. However, we need land, opening fertile agricultural areas for development is a serious crime and recklessness. We are in favor of planned and correct development. We think that inefficient, idle and unused areas should be opened for development rather than productive agricultural areas in Mudanya. "We became candidates to glorify the problems of the producer villagers in Mudanya and the people of Mudanya, especially the problems I mentioned above, to bring them to the agenda, to discuss them during the election process, and then to put forward the solution plan and project of the problems I mentioned at the end of that process, in whatever sense the municipality is won." said.
