Alexis Tsipras: The government of Mr. Mitsotakis has taken the country too far back

The accuracy, the prices of consumer goods, the super profits of the companies that manage the electricity together with what was recorded in the European Parliament in the last 24 hours, were at the center of the conversation of Alexis Tsipras with SYRIZA executives in Lamia, during his tour of city.

Mr. Tsipras expressed the hope that many things change in the country, since the elections are coming anyway, as he said. Our country does not export products, but exports corruption, Mr. Tsipras said characteristically to add: “With the difference that the institutions work there and they are arrested, while in our country those who complain are at risk of being arrested”.

In particular, the president of SYRIZA, while touring the main streets of Lamia, spoke with several professionals, as he visited several shops, while he also discussed with citizens, in particular, the issues of punctuality.

The government of Mr. Mitsotakis has taken the country too far back. The generalized feeling of injustice, the widening of inequalities, the policy that led us to bankruptcy some years ago, the policy that wants the poor to become poorer, but the rich and the powerful to become stronger, is a policy that does not we deserve it. We do not deserve the widening of inequalities, stressed Mr. Tsipras, to add: There is an alternative path. Obviously, miracles cannot happen, but justice can return to the country again.

In his statement, in particular, the official opposition leader noted:

“I want to thank you for the welcome, it was not planned to address you but I want to thank you for the welcome and I really want to say a couple of thoughts as they come to me passing through the market of Lamia, talking to the people who give the battle every day, the battle of survival in very – very difficult conditions. That what the vast majority of Greek society is experiencing today is a feeling of deep injustice, but you will allow me to say also of despair because what is missing and we must restore is hope and perspective and for social cohesion to return to the place. Unfortunately, our country has become the country with the negative firsts in all of Europe. We have the most expensive electricity, we have the lowest wages, we have the biggest inequalities, and lately we have another first feature.

The country exports but does not export products, it exports corruption to Europe. We have started exporting corruption. But what is the difference? The difference is that in Europe there are institutions that work. There is justice that arrests the elected officials, while in Greece those who reveal the scandals are threatened with arrest and not those who commit the scandals. This is a big difference. Imagine, could nowhere else, in any liberal democratic European country, in any European democracy stand for even a minute a government and a prime minister when it is revealed that he had set up a ring of illegal wiretapping and surveillance of political opponents of ministers, journalists, judges, businessmen, even and the heads of the armed forces? In which European country could they stand for even a minute? Perhaps only in countries like Qatar they could stand. But not in European countries.

The government of Mr. Mitsotakis has taken the country too far back. The generalized feeling of injustice, the widening of inequalities, the policy that led us to bankruptcy some years ago, the policy that wants the poor to become poorer, but the rich and the powerful to become stronger, is a policy that does not we deserve it. We do not deserve widening inequalities. There is an alternative path. Obviously, miracles cannot happen, but justice can return to the country. This price gouging can be stopped. We are told that accuracy is imported. The truth is that profiteering is made in Greece, it is not imported. Because at this time a terrifying redistribution of wealth is taking place through the high prices that one finds in the market, in the supermarket, especially the high prices in energy.

The government keeps the VAT, the excise tax, high in order to increase the public revenue, preying on the middle class and the weak, to give some subsidies in order to keep the high prices from the energy companies, that is to keep the profiteering intact. We believe that the country must turn the page and if something smells in the atmosphere it is not the elections that are coming anyway but the need of the Greek society and the great desire of the Greek people for a political change that will bring back justice to the place, that will it will stop profiteering, inequalities, it will support the weak, it will restore social cohesion. This is the message we must keep from here in Lamia. Be well, good strength, thank you.”

At this time, Alexis Tsipras has a meeting with trade unionists and representatives of productive bodies in the labor center of the city, while afterwards he will visit the hospital of Lamia and discuss with the workers.

Video: lamiareport.gr

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