“The president of SYRIZA toured the areas affected by the fires last summer -” What is happening is indicative of the incompetence of the State and the State, “he said.
“In North Evia, the indifference and ridicule of Mr. Mitsotakis’s staff state is crystallizing”, stressed Alexis Tsipras from North Evia, accusing the government that ten months after the fires, the residents “have not seen any effort to heal the victims.” their”.
The president of SYRIZA-PS he noted in a statement during his tour of the area that “but mockery and communication shows have a limit. And this limit has been exceeded here. ” He stressed that “Mr. Mitsotakis will soon understand this, in a resounding and democratic way, even if he decides to set up polls to escape the problems he has created.”
More specifically, Mr. Tsipras stated that “Last August, the residents of Northern Evia watched for ten days as their place was burned, their lives were destroyed and they were left helpless by the so-called staff state of the New Democracy government. Today, almost 10 months later, their anger is even greater and justifiably so. “Apart from great promises, they have not seen anything tangible in their daily lives, no effort to heal their great wounds.” He said in particular that “for ten months now not a single cubic meter of concrete has fallen for flood protection works”, that “ten months now and those who have seen the house, their houses are burning, have compensation that is not even enough to collect rubble from their burned houses “. He also said that “ten months now and those who were active in the primary sector of production have been left completely helpless, to rebuild their lives on their own through the ashes.”
“The big words must stop and there must be a result”
Earlier in the day, during a meeting at the City Hall of Istiaia with the mayor, the forester and local authorities, the leader of the official opposition stressed that “at the end of the day, what everyone is judged to be responsible for is his effectiveness. In the field of wound healing in Evia for almost a year now the government has been judged on its effectiveness and has not received a good grade at all. The big words, the promises and the communication fiestas must stop and there must be a result “.
The president of SYRIZA-PS claimed that “What is happening in Northern Evia is indicative of the inability of the State and the state to heal wounds and to prioritize a plan that can have a basic effectiveness for the citizens.” He stressed that ten months could not have passed “and we have not yet seen that a cubic meter of concrete has fallen to make flood works”. It may not be ten months, he added, “and still be on the promise of the next decade for projects that are useful but until the next decade comes to see infrastructure, road network, urban planning and serious studies for forest, we have to see how this world will live here where its life was burned, it lost its crops, its animals, the resin producers lost the possibility for income “. He said that almost a year has passed and the program that will put them in a process so that they can have an income has not started yet, while “when it starts, it will concern 25 out of 200”.
Mr. Tsipras also said that it was an opportunity for immediate compensatory measures to deal with timeless problems of the daily life of the region, such as those concerning the schools, the health centers, the ambulance. “Who has only one shift and can not serve people”. He expressed his concern “about the fact that ten months now the problems remain active and the state“although in words staff, in practice it proves completely incapable of prioritizing and tackling problems.”
He stressed that “It turns out to be a very big mistake for the Local Government to stay out of the reconstruction plan”, adding that “in the next period we should all push and commit ourselves – because from what it seems, mayor, for better or worse, you will not have these political leaders because we will have developments in the country, I think this is underway, we will have elections ». Mr Tsipras said: “All the ambitious plans are positive but we have to see what happens today, so the commitments we have to make and push in all directions are to finally start all the flood protection projects,” he said. “If we do not have an intense weather phenomenon, we will be surprised and this should not happen”. He also stressed that “the payment of compensation to all resin growers should start immediately, without exception, the forest departments of Limni and Istiaia should be staffed with foresters and foresters so that they can supervise flood protection works and reforestation.” He also said that in the issue of compensation for fire victims in municipalities with “yellow” houses where they have 180 euros per square meter, this amount is necessary – “precisely now this money is not even enough to collect the rubble” – to increase to 500 euros, as had been decided in similar cases, such as in the Kineta fire. He added that there should be “substantial compensation” for people who are active across the spectrum of primary production “and have been left helpless to rebuild their lives after the devastating fire”.
Concluding his initial statement, Mr. Tsipras said that for SYRIZA “the T.A. has no colors, red or blue, the T.A. he must be next to the citizen “and congratulated the mayor of Istiaia” that we do not have the same ideas and opinions, but stands tall and raises his voice where needed “, as” this is how the local government should do to any government “.
