THE Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis visited her city Kavala and Chrysoupolis, where he walked the main streets and talked to citizens and shopkeepers. Mr. Mitsotakis emphasized that the ND governance program is realistic and will be implemented, while he noted that those who made difficult decisions were vindicated. As he said, “Tsipras asks to be given “tolerance” – Thank you, we will not take, we will not experience again what we experienced in 2015″.

Mr. Mitsotakis pointed out, among other things:

“The question is simple: Should we continue on this path of advancement or should we turn back? Will we continue to cut taxes and contributions or will we return to an environment of over-taxation of the middle class. Whether we will continue to increase pensions or whether your pensions will remain captive to the Katrougalos law and the personal difference that others have voted for. Should we continue to guard our borders and extend the fence to the Ebro, or will we make the country an “open vineyard”. If our voice will still be heard loud in Europe, protagonist in the developments, and not as queuers and beggars, as we were in 2015.

And if we will finally have a stable government or if we will end up with a government alalum of a supposedly progressive government, a government of the defeated, where they will again find a place – pay attention – at the table of power, not only Mr. Tsipras, PASOK, but and Mr. Varoufakis with his nice design. You will no longer be paid in euros, you will be paid in “Dimitres”. And if Mr. Tsipras does not ask for support from them, he says: “at least give me tolerance”.

Thanks, we won’t take it. We will not get, we will not relive what we experienced in ’15. We turned the page. We will move forward. Yesterday I presented our program for the next four years. About how I envision a Greece – the President said before, the Greece of Europe. A Greece, which will become a real European country in everything.

With better wages for the private sector, for the public sector. For the first time, civil servants, starting 1/1/24, will see significant increases in their pay.

For a socially just Greece, for a digital Greece, for a green Greece, for a Greece that will ensure its own energy self-sufficiency. And you know how important this is, here in Northern Greece. Your Region has become an energy hub of critical importance not only for our country, but for the energy security of all of Europe. On how you will ensure cheap energy from geothermal energy, on how we will support the primary sector, on the large irrigation projects that are being carried out throughout the country and especially in your Region”, the Prime Minister emphasized in his greeting to the citizens of Kavala .

“Those who made difficult decisions were vindicated – There is no other government program other than ND”

“So let’s come and talk about them and let’s talk civilly and without toxicities. And without voices, and without screams. This is what I always seek in the pre-election period. We are not afraid of comparison, friends. We are not afraid of comparison, because we know very well what we did four years ago and what the previous ones did.

So I will ask you to keep this enthusiasm of yours alive. Let us all fight together, as we know how to do, as our great faction, New Democracy, which has always been on the right side of history, since the time of its founder, Konstantinos Karamanlis, has done it many times. when he put us in Europe. You know, when Karamanlis – I’m saying it here for the younger people to remember – when Karamanlis put us in Europe, there were many who demonstrated then and shouted: “EEC and NATO the same union”. You remember them, don’t you?

But who was vindicated, after all? Not those who disapproved, but those who made the difficult decisions for the country. Even now, our country will be on the right side of history, with New Democracy winning the elections, because there is simply no other proposal for governance today.

There is no other program for governing the country. Greece needs two things: It needs growth, better jobs, better wages – you will get it with New Democracy. And the country needs stability, in order to fend off all the challenges and suggestions of some, who know that only if they have a strong Greece in front of them will they sit wisely”added the Prime Minister.

Mr. Mitsotakis also spoke with former employees of fertilizer and hydrocarbon production companies who were in Eleftherias Square.

“We have a sacred obligation to plan a better future for young children”

In Chrysoupoli, Kyriakos Mitsotakis spoke to the citizens who had gathered to welcome him, but also to local school students who asked him questions as part of the Political Education course.

“I want to thank you for this massive presence here. I want to thank the young children, who have come from school to a civic education class, to join us here today and ask me the things that concern them.

I say this because first of all we politicians must have our eyes on the new generation, because very often I hear from these children and from the slightly older ones, an anxiety: “Will we be able to live better than our parents and grandparents us;”.

And just as our generation succeeded and lived better than the generation of our fathers and mothers, we have a sacred obligation to plan a future for the new children, for the children who are 15, 16, 17, 20, 25 , so that they feel that they can really make a difference in their country, that they don’t have to look for a way out of Greece, as unfortunately many did during the crisis years, and that they can really hope for a better future”, noted the Prime Minister.

“You know we will stick to our program – Mr. Tsipras is betting a lot because he knows he won’t win”

“Today I can look you all in the eyes and tell you: yes, we did our job well. Because we kept the ship of the country safe and Greece today is stronger than it was and we kept our pre-election commitments in full. So, what we are telling you from now on and unfolding our program for the next four years, know that we will adhere to them.

Don’t expect me to hear things I know I can’t do. I leave this to Mr. Tsipras and his company, who can very comfortably say today “I will reduce all your taxes, I will give you all your loans, I will give you free houses” and all this is priced at approximately 45 billion euros, collected over the four years. If he attempted to do even half of these, the country would be back in a new memorandum. But of course he knows very well that he is not going to win because of this and he is giving you so much.

It is our responsibility, however, to conduct this election season, a gentleman in the coffee shop across the street told me very nicely. What did he tell me? “Dynamic, but civilized”. Notice how important this phrase is. Dynamically, because we have to defend our work and every election contest has the element of confrontation and we have passion and appetite for work and we are more experienced than what we have learned. But also civilized. Civilized, friends, means that elections are the celebration of democracy and elections should first and foremost be a confrontation of arguments and not a contest of toxicity and mud. I reject these logics and far from me any attempt either to polarize the climate, or to use a rhetoric that does not suit me in my character.

I believe that we do not respect the citizens, who want to participate in the electoral process, want to hear what the parties have to say. We don’t respect the new guys, I have a lot of confidence in these guys. A lot of these young kids, the 16-year-olds, will vote and judge and judge us harshly, and they have every reason to do so. And what do they care? Will they get into a top school to get a degree that will eventually translate into the job market? If they don’t want to go to university, will they have a support to be able to acquire skills to have a good job the next day?

Who will ultimately deal with the jobs of the future and not the jobs of today? Why are things changing, the jobs in ten years will not be the same as the jobs today and who will prepare this new generation for a world that is changing so fast? Those who don’t even understand it, or those who, anyway, can see where the country is going, where the world is going, and what the country’s place is in this changing world? All this, then, has its importance. We will discuss all this in the elections”added Mr. Mitsotakis.