Interview with mayor of Thessaloniki Yiannis Boutaris on Hellas Pindakaas (in Greek) 7.3.2014

Click here to listen to the interview with Yiannis Boutaris – the current mayor of Thessaloniki, who was elected in 2010 and reelected to a second term in 2014. He ran as an independent.

This show is in Greek.

“Yiannis Boutaris was named Mayor of the Month in October 2012, joining the likes of London’s Boris Johnson and New York’s Michael Bloomberg. The UK-based City Mayors Foundation said that if all Greek politicians were like Thessaloniki’s mayor, Greece wouldn’t be in the mess it’s in. Similar views were voiced by the International Monetary Fund, which praised him for his reformist zeal, and foreign media who dubbed him a beacon of hope for the country.”