On Monday, December 21, 2020, we submitted two petitions to Maritsa municipality and to Plovdiv district administration. The petitions are initiated by citizens with voting rights with a permanent or current address on the territory of the municipality of Maritsa.

The citizens who signed the petitions have the following requests:

In order to prevent future outbreaks of epidemics in the Municipality of Maritza through the budget of the Municipality for 2021, as well as through funding from the national budget and by applying to the EU Reconstruction Fund to budget and provide funds for:
1. To regulate municipal and state lands, located next to the Roma neighbourhoods in the villages of the Municipality, in order to sell them to interested candidates for construction of houses.
2. Construction of the necessary street and other infrastructure for the new land plots under item 1.

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In order to prevent future outbreaks of epidemics in the Municipality of Maritza through the budget of the Municipality for 2021, as well as through funding from the national budget and by applying to the EU Reconstruction Fund to budget and provide funds for construction of municipal housing in the municipality.

Due to the epidemiological constraints on gathering many people in one place, the signatures were submitted by a representative of local civic initiatives.

The local civic initiatives that initiated the petitions were formed in connection with the implementation of project "Advocacy campaign for social housing and housing plots in the municipalities of Stara Zagora, Plovdiv and Maritsa." It is implemented by the Community Donation Fund - Stara Zagora in partnership with NGO World Without Borders and the Institute for Urban Development, Plovdiv, with the financial support of Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway under the EEA Financial Mechanism.