Alexis Tsipras accused the government that its strategy is to “speculate on the wealth of the middle class” and warned that its policy would lead to a “tsunami of auctions” in the coming months.
The president of SYRIZA-PS Alexis Tsipras arrived in Grevena around 12:00 noon as part of his tour, while in the afternoon he will go to Kozani where he will make a speech on the main pedestrian street of the city. Speaking to the citizens of Grevena, Mr. Tsipras pledged to “become Europe again”, in the face of the “state of involvement and corruption of Kyriakos Mitsotakis” and sent a new invitation to the Prime Minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, for a televised confrontation between them, and emphasized that if Mr. Mitsotakis had convincing arguments for the voters they would accept the invitation.
The president of SYRIZA-Progressive Alliance argued that he knows and can implement his commitments even after four and a half years of his government experience. The official opposition leader also mentioned the opinion polls, noting meaningfully that those who voted for SYRIZA in 2019 will vote for him again, but many of them who voted for ND four years ago will not do so again.
Alexis Tsipras accused the government of its strategy of “speculating on the wealth of the middle class” and warned that its policy would lead to a “tsunami of auctions” in the coming months.
He even referred to the case of the former deputy of New Democracy in Grevena, Andreas Patsis, and noted: “The only thing the government has done in the last four years, because your prefecture became known by the deputy of New Democracy, Mr. Patsis, who what he did was what he knew well to do, and they knew it when they put him on the ballots. That is, the “crow,” as they say colloquially. To hunt down borrowers to take their property, to make as much as he can by taking the property of others.
But today from here I want to be fair to Mr. Patsis and express my solidarity with Mr. Patsis. Because they pretend they don’t know him. Didn’t they know him when they put him on their ballots? And to call a spade a spade. What does Mr. Mitsotakis himself do differently from what Mr. Patsis did who put him on his ballots?
The truth is that the comparison of the two essentially cannot be made. Because Mr. Patsis is like owning a convenience store. Mr. Mitsotakis with what he has done having given 700,000 properties to the funds, 40 billion of property to start a tsunami of auctions in the coming months, is like having a huge shopping center next to the convenience store.
Because that is their strategy. It’s not something that happened. Their strategy is to profit from the wealth of the middle class. That’s their strategy.”
The president of SYRIZA-PS spoke about “Mitsotakis SA.” and mentioned that Fofi Gennimata was the first to use the term “Maximou S.A.”, commenting “how right she was”.
Mr. Tsipras called for a big, decisive and clear victory for SYRIZA-PS on the evening of May 21, saying that there will be two losers. Mr. Mitsotakis and the polls.
“This Saturday noon gathering in Grevena means that things are changing, that we will surprise them on May 21st. That on May 21st we will say ‘so far’, what I see in recent days is a message of change.
Wherever I am one is the feeling of the people that it goes no further. It doesn’t go any more with injustice, it doesn’t go any more with inequalities, it doesn’t go any more with what we see every day suffocating us”.
Mr. Tsipras also addressed the voters of the parties and even New Democracy, saying: “They are not responsible that the leadership of their party has chosen Mr. Patsis. They are not responsible that Mr. Mitsotakis has led New Democracy to be worse to the right of postcolonialism, of surveillance and wiretapping, of direct assignment, of the corruption of precision and profiteering.
I want you to talk to them and tell them that there is more that unites us than divides us.”
Regarding the prefecture of Grevena, he said that it is unfair, a prefecture that tends to disappear from the map, a prefecture that is getting old.
He accused the government of doing nothing for Grevena prefecture and said that unemployment has reached 35%, one in two residents is retired and the population of the prefecture has decreased by 16% based on the last census.
He committed to support measures for farmers and breeders and reiterated that if he becomes prime minister he will abolish the minimum admission basis for Universities, noting how with its implementation in Grevena 450 fewer students passed.
Mr. Tsipras walked in the central square of Grevena, talked to citizens who were there at the time and took pictures with small children.
Source: Skai
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