Budget 2023: Overvoted by the Parliament with 156 “yes”

With 156 “yes” of New Democracy MPs, and 143 “no”, the 2023 state budget was approved by the Parliament. A total of 299 MPs voted. The budget was voted against by the entire opposition. Andreas Patsis is absent. The confrontation of the political leaders in the national delegation developed into high tones.

From February and for six months the State will cover 10% of each household’s purchases in supermarkets and food businesses, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis announced earlier from the floor of the Parliament. “10% inflation, he said, 10% covers the state”. The measure concerns incomes of 24,000 euros per couple, with an additional 5,000 euros for each child. It covers 85% of households and relieves 8.4 million citizens. The monthly purchase limit will be 220 euros, with an additional 100 euros for each member, up to 1,000 euros. The process will be simple with a digital card, like the fuel pass. Beneficiaries will have the option to collect aid from their bank account up to 80% of its amount. The fiscal cost is 650 million euros and the financing will be done from the taxation of the surplus revenues of the refineries.

In response to the reports of the president of SYRIZA for “binelikia” with the bankers the Minister of Finance began his speech, Christos Staikouras. As he said, he prefers tough dialogues, rather than the imposition of capital controls. At the same time, he spoke about 10 myths that SYRIZA peddles about the Economy, to which, as he said, he will answer in the continuation of his speech.

In high tones and with personal references to the prime minister, whom he described as “dark”, the speech of the president of SYRIZA started Alexis Tsipras in the debate on the state budget for 2023. His speech moves on. He repeated the question of whether the heads of the armed forces are being monitored, while closing his speech, he called on the prime minister to announce “an hour earlier elections”.

The head of the PASOK-KINAL Parliamentary Group, Michalis Katrinis, severely criticized the government while speaking in the Parliament during the discussion of the 2023 budget.

“No matter how many cosmetic adjectives you put in front of the budget, none of them negate the reality, which they understand because the workers in this place live it in their skin: That this budget is a deeply anti-people, class Budget, such as any and if he suggested to them” emphasized the governor. of the Central Committee of the KKE, Dimitris Koutsoubas, in his speech to the Parliament on the budget”.

“Since 1974, all budgets have fallen out and I am sure that the same will happen with this budget”, said the president of Hellenic Solution, Kyriakos Velopoulos, starting his speech in the Parliament, during the discussion and voting of the Budget bill, for the year 2023, while he spoke of “a pre-election budget that is written on the foot, and includes fake numbers”.

Foundation stone of the government’s toxic lie”, characterized the 2023 state budget, which is being discussed in the Parliament, the head of MeRA25, Yanis Varoufakis, emphasizing that the “success story” narrative has failed, because the economic data itself refutes it, but also because it has been rejected by the Greek society itself, which has been driven by the government into economic suffocation.

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