“You are not asking a guilty person to manage the crime”, stressed the spokesperson of SYRIZA-Progressive Alliance, Nassos Iliopoulos, in an interview with the radio station “Sto Kokkino 105.5”, regarding the government’s responsibilities in the pandemic and reiterating the elections.
“At the moment we are talking, Greece continues to be twice above the EU average in losses per million inhabitants,” he stressed. “At the same time, the government voted for a budget for 2022 which, as Mr. Skylakakis himself said in Parliament, is based on the assumption that the pandemic will end at the beginning of the year”, added Nasos Iliopoulos, noting that “ND consciously voted for a budget that does not correspond to reality “.
“In addition,” he pointed out, “we have a study signed by Mr. Tsiodras, the central interlocutor of Mr. Mitsotakis on the issues of the pandemic and head of the scientific committee, which says that 38.5% of the losses – in the research – could have been avoided if the NSS had been strengthened “. “Therefore, at the moment the country is living a health tragedy and the Mitsotakis government is to blame for this tragedy. “The only thing left in this government is to resign and give a way out through the popular participation, through elections”, said Nassos Iliopoulos.
Speaking earlier on ANT1, he sharply criticized the government and the state of the economy, saying that “the country has on average the most expensive price for electricity.” “We are one of the few countries that in the last two years have fixed the basic salary, almost all the countries in the EU in ’20 and ’21 increased the basic salary”, he stressed and added: “Greece is the only country in An EU that has a lower basic salary than we had in 2010 “.
Referring to the problems that exist in the vaccination program for children, he noted that “we see appointments after two months”.
“When not in the first but in the fourth wave, we have millions of dead, we are no longer talking about negligence but about a political choice,” said Nassos Iliopoulos.
Speaking to “Kokkino” and talking about the complete inability of the government to respond to the new wave of the pandemic that is just around the corner, he commented: “Mr. Gerapetritis was wondering on the floor of Parliament a few days ago if a fifth wave would come!”.
Reiterating the measures that must be implemented immediately, he noted: “first of all here and now the restoration of telework in the public and private sector, where the nature of the work allows”. “There is no other way to decongest public transport,” he said.
“Second: prescribing tests, mass testing and tracking,” he said. “We have 5,000 to 6,000 cases every day. These cases also come in contact with vaccinated citizens. So, for example, a parent who comes in contact with his child, who has come out positive, can not normally go to work the next day. “He needs to have free access to molecular tests”, explained Nassos Iliopoulos. “And it is not possible for a family to pay 160 and 180 euros out of pocket,” he said characteristically.
“The third very crucial issue is the need for the private sector to participate in the pandemic,” he said, adding that “unlike what is happening in the rest of Europe, in our country the private sector has been left out of the battle.” “And it treasures with government backs”, stressed Nassos Iliopoulos.
“Of course the most important thing is what the government did not do in two years of pandemic: strengthening the National Health System,” he said. “We have a government that does not believe in the public health system and the budget for ’22 reduces – through a pandemic – state funding to the Ministry of Health by 820 million euros,” he said.
“Currently, the public health system employs 2,500 fewer permanent employees compared to 2019. The problem is reflected in the OECD study data, according to which in our country the unmet health needs have tripled”, he noted and explained: “this means that -because the health system has become monothematic- whoever does not have money can not meet his needs “.
“It is clear that the government neither wants nor can give the battle, neither to the pandemic nor to accuracy. That is why he must leave immediately “, concluded Nasos Iliopoulos.
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