Attack on Kyriakos Mitsotakisbut also to Yanis Varoufakis, released by Itea its president SYRIZA-PS of Alexis Tsipraswho announced his own “Kyriakos plan” in order to force him to talk about the real problems and described the “Dimitra” plan as “nonsense”, while he appealed to the 450,000 new voters to come to the polls saying characteristically that “if the ND and the Mitsotakis regime go to the polls, they are finished”.

Speaking at a gathering of citizens in Itea, Mr. Tsipras announced his own “Mitsotakis Plan”indirectly associating Yanis Varoufakis’ announcement on the “Dimitra” plan, with Kyriakos Mitsotakis who avoids the discussion of the real problems and invents “false issues”.

He specifically said: “For Mr. Mitsotakis to avoid the discussion about what will be done with income, what will be done precisely, with unemployment, with the rural world, he is creating false issues. In order to avoid the discussion of the big issues, he deals with Mr. Velopoulos and how he will get deputies from Velopoulos, the second how he will exclude Kasidiaris, on Tuesday with Mr. Varoufakis. He found a partner to deal with. And with the Dimitra plan. Well, our plan is not called ‘Dimitra’, it is called ‘Kyriakos’, it is the plan to bring him out of his shell, to bring him face to face, to face his responsibilities, to talk about the big problems he has created . Let’s finally force him to come to a televised showdown, to a debate he’s afraid of and put it on his feet, or even to give an interview to a normal journalist and ask him things that the Greek people want to hear.”

The goal, Mr. Tsipras continued, is “to show him his responsibilities and the danger, if in the next four years he finds himself in a position of power, that the country is going through to continue his destructive work of the shrinking of democracy and the dissolution of the social majority. The truth is that while Mr. Mitsotakis instead of paying the workers and pensioners with euros pays them with various passes and Mr. Varoufakis wants to pay them with ‘Dimitres’, we say to put the euros back in their pockets, that’s the our plan. Because 4 years later, the Euros have lost their value, you buy half the products at the supermarket, you use less petrol. So instead of dealing with nonsense, we are dealing with how to make the euro strong again, which is why our program is summarized in four axes: increasing wages, reducing prices, regulating debts, a fair and efficient state”.

Then Mr. Tsipras he repeated the main axes of his program. He specifically said: “Establishment from the first day 880 euros and establishing automatic indexation of ATA for older people, unfreezing the three-year 10% raises for civil servants. For pensioners return of the 13th pension and return of the retroactives that they were deprived of.

How will we reduce the prices? Through a plan that will lower the burden of indirect taxation., The figures show that tax revenues were increased by 2.8 billion euros per year compared to the corresponding period of SYRIZA. This is because it kept indirect taxes flat while prices rose with inflation at 10%. Over 4.5 billion is the increase from last year’s VAT. It takes this money from the many to give some targeted subsidies to support, the energy companies, the refineries, the supermarkets, to keep the prices high. By reducing the VAT we will keep the prices.

Debt settlement with the plan we presented with Louka Katseli that restores the protection of the first home and gives the possibility of regulation for the weak and the middle class.

Effective welfare state: We did not create this state. We can build a fair, efficient, citizen-friendly state with meritocracy and accountability. We can because we are not princes or sons, we do not consider the state our property. The state belongs to the Greek people, and we are the only ones who can change it.”

He addressed the crowd and made a special appeal to the young people: “We have an important opportunity in front of us, our vote. They want to convince us that there is no perspective through voting and that political change cannot come. They want to convince us, those who built a monster government, with surveillance and shrinking of the welfare state and income, that the political change will be a monster. We ask one thing from the Greek people: to give us a strong popular mandate, for SYRIZA to be the first party so that we can build a government of progressive cooperation. You will hear a lot until the polls, but everyone will be forced the next day to take on their responsibilities.” Mr. Tsipras appeared confident that the day after the elections “we will have a government of progressive cooperation and that the Greek people will not get into the adventures of second and third elections”.

Continuing, he emphasized the youth vote: “I also address the young generation, their vote is their weapon. They want them idle, they do not try to convince that they themselves are honest that they did well, but that they are all the same. Well, not everyone is the same. Whatever you want to go to the ballot box, 450 thousand new voters if you go to the ballot box, Mr. Mitsotakis is a thing of the past, the ND and the Mitsotakis regime are already over.”

Starting the attack on Kyriakos Mitsotakis, he said: “For four years now, the great majority of the Greek people have been deceived, targeted. Do you remember what they ordered us? Better wages, better jobs, security, and where did it all go? The government cheated the middle class, wage earners, pensioners and targeted workers and youth. He gave workers better jobs and brought a job jungle, instead of pensions he brought the abolition of the 13th pension and a total of 7.5 billion less for pensions. It made the middle class live on coupons. As far as the agricultural world is concerned, the vast majority of farmers and ranchers are in despair.

What I get is the feeling of the Greek citizens is one “so far, so far with indifference, deception, nepotism, so far with injustice, the time has come to bring justice back to the place”.

Mr. Tsipras also responded to the complaints about whether he can implement his program: “But they say, can you bring change? We say and we know and we can, we know why we governed in the most difficult post-colonial conditions, we know why we succeeded where three previous governments failed, we got the country out of the memorandums and left 37 billion in the public coffers. And Mr. Mitsotakis and his company found them ready and four years ago he spent another 60 billion. If we had the opportunity to spend this money, the hospitals wouldn’t be in this situation, the welfare state wouldn’t be in this mess, this situation wouldn’t exist exactly, this situation wouldn’t exist with small and medium-sized businesses who cannot find financing tools. Because we are not here to serve the few and powerful, the big interests. We are here to serve the common people, the society. To the question if we know, we answer yes we know because we have also learned from our mistakes. If we can, the answer is that now we can because now we are not asking for a second chance, we are asking for a first chance to govern without memoranda, troika and coercion, based on our own plan and program.

He also turned against Mr. Mitsotakis personally: “All these days Mr. Mitsotakis is pretending to be the prime minister who took over the last few days and promises better wages, Social Security and an efficient state. Why did he rule over us for 4 years? He releases TV commercials in which he dresses as SYRIZA and fights. Why didn’t he make them all these years? No matter how hard he tries, no matter how much he pretends, the Greek people know what his plan is. Because he doesn’t govern with memoranda and he had the opportunity to make them. He pretends he didn’t know all this time trying to hide. Instead of discussing his responsibilities for the 36,000 deaths of the pandemic, when he told us that he did not know about the trains and we mourned 57 of our fellow citizens unjustly, that he did not know about the patsides, when he said that he did not know that his nephew in the next office in Megaron Maximus watched over half the political system. But the time of judgment is coming. He is trying to avoid discussing his responsibilities in this election by changing the agenda and lying. What did he tell us yesterday? That the memoranda were brought by SYRIZA. It’s as if the people eat grass and don’t know which faction bankrupted the country twice, once in 2009 and once in 2015. And since this doesn’t catch on yesterday, he told us a new joke that SYRIZA will bring a memorandum if it implements its pro-people program. This is what he said in 2018 when we were regulating the debt, that SYRIZA would bring a 4th memorandum. And he was found eating from the prepared food that we left for him in the public coffers.”