The Aytos municipality serves as an administrative body for the town and the villages nearby. An interesting story, connected with the municipality, is that of Enyo Georgiev Klyantev, who was mayor of Aytos a total of three times from 1923 to 1934. In 1944, he was accused by The People’s Court of acting like “an utmost representative of facism”, and that all interviews, firings, and arrests (of communists, jews, partisans, etc.) happened under his watch. Furthermore, he was accused of openly vilifying and criticizing the soviet union. In his response, he pleads to be fully excused of his crimes, because he didn’t commit them, nor did he give permission for them to be carried out. He creates a long list of witnesses, which he claims will confirm his innocence. Part of them would have proved, that to the best of his abilities, he had advocated for all “motherlandfrontierers” ( essentially, communist-supporting patriots) and especially all the “national communist-warriors”. The professor Georgi Pavlov, would be able to confirm that he would often complain about the old government administration (referring to when Bulgaria had a monarchy). He also points to a group of jews, who would confirm that he always took care of them, and that thanks to his advocacy, they were never mistreated. In fact, according to him, these actions had brought on the disapproval of the fascists. Mrs. Dzhankardashliyska, the clerk for the town mufti, would confirm, that he always advocated for the rights of the minority, and that he was never racist. However, according to the information given by the regional  chief of police, he was the perpetrator The People’s Court made him out to be. On May 21st, 1944, the Chengeliev’s home was burned down and the dead bodies of the partisan brothers Ivan and Dimitar Chengeliev, their mother’s, and Atanas Manchev’s, were put on display in the town square. According to the accounts of the chief of police, Klyantev spent the whole day with the leader of the gendarmerie (they’re the ones who killed them) and partook in the act with them. He also mentions the killing of 29 partisans from the village of Malka Polyana, the jailing of 15 antifascists, the sending of 30 people to labor camps, and the firing of antifascists from their state and municipality positions. From the published documents, it’s not clear what his sentence is, but in his handwritten afterword, he pleads for the court’s judges to keep in mind that he suffered a lot as a child, because from a young age he had to work in other people’s shops and grocery stores, and that when he became a member of parliament, he was once again unhappy, because he had no experience. He claims to have always helped those in need and that he never chased away the nation loving partisans. For these reasons, he pleads that they lower his sentence to a minimum, so he can be useful to society and so that he can enjoy the new regime.