Mr. Mitsotakis pretends to be the prime minister of another country. “If the entanglement did not support him, he would not be prime minister today”, says the president of SYRIZA-PS, Alexis Tsipras, in an interview he gave to Star Central Greece.
Mr. Tsipras estimates that Mr. Mitsotakis will not go to early elections “because he fears them like hell incense”, reiterates his political goal “to quickly establish a progressive government that will restore social justice”, while insisting on his proposal for an immediate increase in the minimum wage to 800 and a reduction in the TAC, warning that “otherwise the winter will be unbearable”.
Mr. Mitsotakis has failed miserably to manage the pandemic
The leader of the official opposition harshly criticizes the Prime Minister for the pandemic: “Mr. Mitsotakis has whistled the end of the pandemic and believes that he will hide behind the protection of the majority of the media that support him. If there was no entanglement to support him, he would not be prime minister today. “He has failed miserably to manage the pandemic, he has created conditions of social marginalization, small and medium-sized enterprises are in a state of despair, households are seeing tremendous increases in their budgets and he himself is doing nothing.” He then “explains” that “Mr. Mitsotakis does not take serious measures because he does not want to clash with what he sees in the polls as his own electoral clientele.” On the subject of vaccination, he states: “Vaccination, which was a hope, is not progressing in our country, while in other countries it is progressing. Shouldn’t the prime minister take responsibility for that? He can not convince the citizens, he does not have the credibility to convince. We are stuck at 60% in vaccination… It is a political choice not to clash with a part of the unvaccinated who are ideologically in the area of ​​the far right and he wants to have them well because he wants them to be voters “. He then attributes to him “the devaluation of the NSS, as well as the fact that he did not bring in time monoclonal and pharmaceutical preparations that other countries had. The point today is that the country can not be in the last places in Europe and go out and say that things are going well and are under control. So when will it be out of control to recognize it? “We lose a village of 400 citizens every week.”
The vaccination campaign is wrong
Asked if he was in favor of a new lockdown, he replied: “I am not the one who will describe the necessity of the measures. That is why, seeing that the government is reluctant to make decisions at political cost and that it wants to caress the ears of vaccinators and deniers, I asked for the small committee of scientists “. He then asks: “Why did he make it mandatory only for health professionals? Because he knew that it is an audience that, because it has destroyed it morally and biologically, has no hope of having high percentages. And it leaves out professional categories that also come into contact with citizens. “The police have a huge percentage of unvaccinated people, do they not come in contact with the citizen every day?” He explains that “I did not say commonly accepted scientists, I said to define them together, of high prestige, beyond and outside party expediencies. How can someone who simply ratifies decisions taken behind closed doors at the Maximos Palace be persuaded?
He also claims that the vaccination campaign was inappropriate: “When you tell the citizen that it is the ‘Freedom’ operation, that is, that you were vaccinated and finished, it is wrong. You create a climate of complacency and the people relax, now we have 15% of those vaccinated in the ICU… We should all go and get the third dose of the vaccine “.
Indirectly responding to yesterday’s report by Mr. Mitsotakis, he says: “As long as Mr. Mitsotakis rules, if he still rules for a long time, the average Greek will find himself in the need to go and light a candle, come in and we will be saved. I have elderly people who want to go to church and do not go, because they are not protected by the State and the Church. The proposal we submitted yesterday should have been the concern of the Church as well. Will we not protect people who have been vaccinated when there is an unvaccinated person next to them who can carry the virus, so as not to upset a small minority who do not want to be upset to vote for us? This is what Mr. Mitsotakis does, he behaves like Gortsos at the time of the pandemic “. He explains that “my proposal does not mean targeting temples and religious services, but the concept of protecting the faithful.”
Increase in the minimum wage
The second issue that Mr Tsipras focuses on is the issue of accuracy, he insists that “raising the minimum wage to deal with accuracy does not require fiscal space” and adds: affected by a – hopefully temporary – phenomenon, you will have huge losses. They will be marginalized, in poverty, out of economic activity… At a time when we have a huge unprecedented wave of precision, the government is not taking any institutional action. While now you need a strong PPC to keep prices low in the competition, as he did in our day when the tariff did not increase even one euro, Mr. Mitsotakis comes now and says privatization, transfer of 17% of PPC with AMK without participation of the State. Sale of 49% of HEDNO. The market does not regulate everything, as Mr. Mitsotakis says. The market regulates the profit of some individuals “.
But he also criticizes the de-lignification program: “We are all committed to the goal of reducing carbon emissions, but you can not go in three years, when our plan was to go to 15. There is a question of energy efficiency. When you go in three years, you will go awkwardly, in a way that is not studied and you will find yourself in front of surprises “.
Continuing the attack on the government, he states: “Greece is a champion, it has the most expensive price in the wholesale sale of electricity. She is a champion in deaths, a champion in disasters because climate change is to blame, a champion to be exact – the general phenomenon is to blame. “Well, there is a problem with the way our government handles them!”
He also predicts that “in December, based on the increases we had in the wholesale price of electricity, our fellow citizens will see increases in tariffs from 80 to 150%. Mr. Mitsotakis yesterday lied that if it were not for our interventions, the prices would be ten times higher. This lie is vulgar, because the intervention he made was 9 euros and now it goes to 18. But the increases that the average citizen will see will be at 150 euros. 150 euros reduction in the income of a family living on 800 euros. “At a time when the minimum wage remains frozen for three years at 650 euros, we are talking about a situation that will be unbearable.” He warns that “if Mitsotakis does not proceed with direct income support interventions with a direct increase in the minimum wage, with a reduction of the EFK to the minimum levels allowed by the EU, we will have a winter that in combination with the pandemic, will be the harshest and worst of the last decade. The 2% that increases the salary in 2022 Mr. Mitsotakis is crumbs, 50 minutes a day, while he said in the run-up to the elections under the pressure of our announcements, that he will increase the growth twice. In ’21 with a growth of 6% he had to increase it by 12% and announces 2%. And under our pressure that we say at 800 euros the lowest tomorrow morning, generally says that it will increase it again. Why not increase it now? “We are talking about a joke.”
Mr. Mitsotakis is afraid of an exam in which he will have the majority
Al. Tsipras refers to the SYRIZA proposal for the establishment of an Inquiry Committee for the “Petsa lists”: “Mr. Mitsotakis has come to a very difficult position with our proposal for an Inquiry by the opposition to control the actions of the government. Because he can not justify the more than 40 million euros he has given without criteria. He did not give money based on how many journalists work in each media, what is the impact of each media, he blocked some media completely, he gave some crumbs to others and he gave many millions to others that he wanted to favor. In other words, he used the money of the taxpayers under the pretext of the pandemic to create his regime. In Austria, Kurtz resigned for 1 million euros, here we are talking about more than 40 million.
Reinforcement of those affected by the fires
Finally, Al. Tsipras refers to the restoration of the disasters from the fires, saying: “I understand that it would be risky for the Prime Minister to be in Evia at the time of the disaster, because the indignation of the citizens was very intense, but it impresses me that, although all this has gone space in different parts of the country, has been photographed on beaches, in pleasant moments, has not found half an hour to go to people in Evia, to talk to them, to see how they live… “. He claims that “he put Mr. Benoit without consulting the local community, but he is working on a long-term plan. How will these people live in the coming months? We need to see beyond the long-term plans how the world will live. That is why we proposed the emergency income, 400 euros for the first member of each family, 200 euros for the second and 100 euros for each child. “Our first concern must be for people to stay and live in their place.”
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