At the pace of the elections, the Parliament – The pre-election goals of the government

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The aim is to show more some bills that have a resounding impact on the everyday life of citizens and give “points”

By Penelope Galliou

Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Alexis Tsipras gave a foretaste of the climate that will prevail in the future and until the elections are announced in the Parliament, partially revealing the strategy during this time and the issues they propose.

It may be that the “obnoxious” dilemmas and slogans are more suited to the pre-election “balconies” of the gatherings, however, the floor of the Parliament now seems to serve pre-election purposes for both leaders.

The Maximos Palace is determined and ready for its top executives and, where necessary, the prime minister, to intervene in critical meetings and highlight the gravity and determination of the government to promote the legislative initiatives it promised, included in its program and is now putting into practice , until the last moment of the current government term. I don’t argue much when these arrangements have a social and economic impact. The aim is to promote some bills that have a resounding impact on the daily life of citizens and give “points” to their initiator in an informal, but normal, pre-election period. The amendment voted today by the Plenary of the Parliament also belongs to them for the “block” in the party of Ilias Kasidiaris in his eventual entry into the Parliament. A regulation which, in addition to putting all the parties in front of their responsibilities, is estimated to particularly touch the democratic sensibilities of the centrist audience, who are among the groups that are at the center of the government’s targeting.

The bill also of Ministry of Education on bullying in schools it touches the Greek family and sensitive social groups, as well as the national plan for the homeless that highlights the social and pro-people profile of the government, which government officials will be asked to communicate more intensely and more emphatically.

A lot of weight in the time between until the ballot box is set up will undoubtedly fall on the Finance Ministries which, among other things, have to decide on the allowance that will probably be given to pensioners who did not receive an increase in their pensions, as well as a new allowance for support of the most vulnerable in terms of accuracy, but also any new arrangement for 100 or 120 installments for overdue debts to the D.O.Y. as well as 36 or 72 installments for the debts of the pandemic period. And all this with the expected new increase in the minimum wage which will be finalized in the near future and will take effect from April 1.

By emphatically communicating these legislative initiatives, the government seeks to serve a two-fold goal, on the one hand, to demonstrate to the citizens in practice that what it promised and committed to, it did, but at the same time it will also show that SYRIZA is the great absentee from a Greece that is changing and is improving thanks to the efforts and policies of the Mitsotakis government. Absent, however, not only because Alexis Tsipras has chosen to abstain from the votes of the Parliament from now on and until the elections, a fact that was criticized by Kyriakos Mitsotakis in yesterday’s parliamentary “bra de fer” but also because SYRIZA insists on sterile denial, staying outside and far from the developments that concern and improve the daily life and life of Greek citizens.​

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