In a post on his social media, he says:
“I made the decision to take a step forward for the place, to run for Mayor and ask the political parties, the associations and every fellow citizen to support this candidacy so that we can move forward to the next day.
I was born in Drymades and I come from a family that fought for two sacred battles: for our Land and for Democracy. I worked hard in Greece and in the USA, I learned a lot working in the field of catering and hospitality. And I want to use all this knowledge and experience in my country, working together with my compatriots for the advancement and development of Himara in all areas.
On August 4th we are not voting for Prime Minister, we are voting for Mayor! We vote for the next day of Himara!
The next day for the Municipality of Himara will not have exclusions. He will have no children and no children. Permanent residents and emigrants. Socialists and Democrats. Ours and not ours.
He will have no corruption. There will be no insecurity for the property of every citizen. It will not have an appointed Mayor, faithfully carrying out the orders of those who want to usurp our properties. Wherever they come from.
We are all citizens of Himara and we must not allow anyone to divide us, no matter how high they are. Above all and above all it is local interest!
The next day for the Municipality of Himara has a schedule! What the citizens of Himara voted for last May.
The next day has work. It has solutions! It has investments! It has Europe! It has Democracy, which is guaranteed first of all by the Mayor! It has a Mayor who will have doors open in Tirana, in Brussels, in Athens, but also in Washington to claim the best for Himara’s next day.
With these words, I ask for your support and vote.”
Petros Gikourias is running once morest the candidate of Edi Rama’s Socialist Party, a minority, former MP and minister and current regional governor of Avlona, Vangelis Tavo.
It is recalled that with its decision at the beginning of the week, the Central Electoral Commission formally deposed from elected mayor Fredis Beleris, who remains in prison and has submitted a request for permission, in order to go to Strasbourg on Tuesday and attend the opening plenary session European Parliament.
The candidate’s CV
He was born in August 1964 and grew up in Drymades, Himaras. He graduated from the four-year high school in Fieri, where my family had been displaced by the Hoxha regime. Although he graduated with good grades, he was denied entry to the country’s universities, due to his family’s opposition to the communist regime.
In 1990, like many Chimariotes, he found himself in Greece. He and his brother then moved to the US in September 1991. Although they didn’t even know English, with hard work they managed to succeed professionally. For the last 25 years he has been active in the field of catering and tourism, maintaining hotel units in Ocean City, Maryland.
He is a founding board member of the Himarioton Society of America and a member of the board of directors of the Continental Federation of America since 2017. He has also been actively involved in St. George Parish in Ocean City since 1991, having served as president of the board of parishioners. .
Within the next few days, announcements of support for the Albanian opposition parties are expected. The first statement of support for Petros Gikourias came from the Union Party for Human Rights (KEAD), underlining that they jointly propose with OMONIA the candidacy of Petros Gikourias for the Municipality of Heimarra to the opposition parties.
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