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Nikitas Kaklamanis, Mayor of Athens

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How good is Mayor Nikitas Kaklamanis?
Mayor of Athens, Greece

City Mayors invites its readers to assess the performance in office of Nikitas Kaklamanis, Mayor of Athens. Please rate his overall performance by awarding him marks out of ten. '1' signifies an extremely poor performance, while '10' would rate his performance as outstanding. Please also provide details of what in your opinion are the mayor’s best and worst decisions.

Over time, Mayor Monitor will provide a valuable track record of the mayor's successes and failures as well as his popularity among residents and a wider public. The results will be published on the City Mayors website and updated regularly. The ratings will also become a contributory factor of World Mayor 2010.

Please assess Mayor Kaklamanis not more than once a month. In order to eliminate multiple submissions and/or fraudulent as well as organised rating by political friends and foes of the mayor, all submissions are processed manually and, if deemed questionable, cross-checked. Thank you for participating. How good is Mayor Nikitas Kaklamanis? You decide

RESULTS FOR NIKITAS KAKLAMANIS:
Performance index:
July 2010: 6.31 points out of 10
May 2010: 6.51 points out of 10
April 2010: 6.48 points out of 10
March 2010: 6.32 points out of 10
January 2010: 6.30 points out of 10
December 2009: 6.25 points out of 10
October 2009: 6.21 points out of 10
August 2009: 6.33 points out of 10
July 2009: 6.02 points out of 10
June 2009: 6.19 points out of 10
April 2009: 6.23 points out of 10
January 2009: 6.03 points out of 10

COMMENTS:

Thumbs up:
• Pedro (Outside Greece): Kaklamanis has trasformed Athens into a green and clean city with beautifull parks and roads and he is helping the poor people by giving them food, medicines, clothes, etc.
• Dimitris (Athens): The mayor has taken a series of measures to enhance the life of socially vulnerable groups
• Gogo (Athens): Nikitas Kaklamanis is a very simple person who understands our problems in Athens and stands by us. He looks after poor people, minigrants, children and old people. every day and night poor people eat at a social "restaurant", can take clothes and shoes, and have medical care. He tries very hard to make Athens more "green", whith new parks,and open areas made by flowers, trees...Kaklamanis is a different mayor whith passion for Athens, for our city's culture, for all people, Greek or not.
• Mario (Outside Greece): Mayor Kaklamanis keeps the city clean and full of cultural events
• S A (Athens): He cares for the poor and distributes food to them.
• Andreas (Greece): The scars left behind the December riots were mostly closed quickly. The Mayor has a statesman like image that adds a lot to his credit. After years of face lifting, Athens looks more like a major South European city and less like a mediterranean urban medley.
• Evangelos P (Athens): He cares for the poor people of Athens.
• MB (Athens): To give up on turning Kypseli Park into a car park after residents occupied it and began planting trees to replace those torn up by city workers.
• Stavros V (Athens): Nikitas Kaklamanis is one of the best Majors the City of Athens had. At very difficult economic times and social unrest he managed to unite the people and help them focus in what unites them and not what divides them. In his Christmas/New Year 2009 speech he was very instrumental to uplift peoples spirits and give hope to all of us.
• Gerhard F (Athens): New parking system i the city centre.
• Katerina (Athens): Because of lack of trees in Athens I believe that mayors greatest achievmentare the "green roof tops" and stopping the cutting of trees from OSE.
• David T (Outside Greece): He always comes across as a highly educated man with a vision for Athens.

Thumbs down:
• Panos P (Athens): Has Kaklamanis done something Athenians can be proud of? He consistently makes empty promises. Lots of hype and no action. His office has made some of the dumbest decisions a Mayor could make. When good things do happen, like the refurbishment of a park, it is never managed properly after the fact. The fact that some people call him a Green Mayor is laughable. What happened with the campaign to rid the city of plastic bags. Why cut down the orange trees in Kolonaki. Why redo Monistraki Square and then allow it to be vandalized every night. The list goes on and on. Have you visited the Olympic Complex, it's a disgrace. The only square that it cared for properly is the one outside his office window. Omonia, Syntagma, Plaka, Klathmonos, Koria etc, all graffitied and filled with trash. Walk down Panepstimou Street and tell me why the most beautiful building in Athens are vandalized on a daily basis. Where was the mayor during the riots? Where is the Mayor promoting Athens as a tourist destination? Where is the Mayor cleaning the center so tourists don't need to look at trash and graffiti? Where are the city police stopping people from driving on pedestrianized streets? Time to take off the rose colored glasses and do something productive for your city.
• J L (Athens): Destruction of green areas and the mayor has done nothing about the insane automobile problem. He actually built more parking instead of addressing the issue!. One of the worst cities in the world for green space. Full of sick strays, garbage, urine and feces everywhere. On my street, there has been a dead animal turned into mush rotting for over a week! He once announced "Athens is one of the cleanest cities in Europe"!
• Mireille (Athens): He has not been able to keep Athens a clean city, terrible state of the roads, pavements,nothing to improve access the public offices,for disabled people..Pollution getting worse,not enough Parks and trees...and many more promises made when he was elected, not been made..!
• Stergios (Greece): Kaklamanis messes with national politics although he is the mayor of a city and not the Prime Minister, Athens has never been dirtier, its social and racial problems have never been worse.
• S A (Athens): The mayor hasn't managed to keep city clean or make it more "green".
• Andreas (Greece): Athens still suffers from dirt, in spite of year long promises. Street sweeping is tatty and ineffective. Abandoned vehicles take up useful parking space in the congested city centre. Sidewalks are in a deplorable state almost all across the city centre. The Mayor lacks pro-activity and initiative even at simple tasks that could make Athens a better place to live, work and visit.
• Anon, Athens: The mayor was not prepared for the December 2008 protests and did not know how to react and to handle them.
MB (Athens): Allowing junkies to take over the neighborhood behind City Hall.
• Stavros V (Athens): His worst Mistake was to leave the post as a Minister of Health. He could bring change to the Healthcare system especially the Public healthcare system but he wanted to leave the post as he wanted to become a major. As he is by training a doctor his priority had to be the reform of the Healthcare System and not the City of Athens.
• Gerhard F (Athens): Hardly any appearances in public. I fear for his reelection.
• Despo (Athens): Instead of providing a proper refuse collection service Kaklamanis has allowed gypsy rag-and-bone men to run around Athens all day long, every day of the week making extremely loud and annoying announcements. It's not the fact that they're gypsies we mind - in fact, we think they should be given much better employment and enterprise opportunities - but the fact that all day long all one hears are their loud blaring calls announcing that they are here. They should have licences, 95% do not, yet Kaklamanis still lets them run around Athens in their pick-up trucks, blocking roads and creating an unbearable environment to live in with their loud, continuous recorded messages being pumped through the megaphones of their pick-up trucks.

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