In an urgent postulate, the SP demands the reception of refugees from the (new) Camp Moria on Lesbos.
“The city council of Lenzburg is requested,
The postulate was recognised as urgent on 24 September 2020 with 22 votes in favour and 12 against and was adopted by the city council without a vote.
“The city council has already dealt with this postulate. We believe that this is about people in need. It is not a matter of pursuing asylum policy. If the town of Lenzburg can do something to help these people who have lost their belongings, the town of Lenzburg will do so. For this reason, the town council declares itself prepared to accept this postulate without a vote.”
Councillor Andreas Schmid, Minutes of the Residents’ Council meeting of 24 September, https://www.lenzburg.ch/upload/cms/user/Protokollvom24.September2020.pdf
This initiative is part of the campaign “500 people for Aargau”.
The refugee camps in Greece are in dire straits. Several tens of thousands of refugees are locked up in camps under the most degrading conditions. Their situation is so unbearable that at Easter 2020, the three national churches of Switzerland jointly appealed to the Federal Council to alleviate the tragedy and accept 5000 refugees from Greece into Switzerland.
The campaign “500 people for the municipalities in Aargau” takes up this appeal and wants to achieve that municipalities and cities voluntarily increase their quota for taking in people. In this way, they can create the necessary capacity in and with the canton for the government to register the “free space” with the federal government for the admission of people from precarious camps. Numerous communes have already given positive feedback.
Ask your municipality in Aargau to take in people too. The requests are coordinated by the association Netzwerk Asyl Aargau.
Letter template “500 people for the municipalities in Aargau”.
