“Next Sunday, the people will celebrate, not the cartels”, emphasized Alexis Tsipras during his speech, which is in progress, on the beach of Volos, in Iroos. “We have no choice but to win, it’s a question of life, dignity, it’s a question that concerns the future of our children” he underlined.

He began by mentioning the founding of the Labor Center in the country in 1908 in Volos, “in the historic tobacco workers’ strike of 1909”, to add that “the workers achieved better wages and fewer working hours” and that “pages of heroism and sacrifice were written in Magnesia from the National Resistance”.

He commented that the presence of people at tonight’s gathering proves that on May 21st Magnesia will once again take out SYRIZA PS first and “will pave the way for the great victory and change.

“Change is not a slogan that concerns yesterday and the past, but what the citizens have in their hearts. Regardless of whether they voted for SYRIZA or ND in the past, regardless of whether they are left, center or right, they want a big change: Change is what the young people who work unpaid 12-hour days want. The shopkeeper who is being chased by receipts. The pensioner struggling to provide pocket money to his grandchildren. The working mother, who with two visits to the supermarket to get the essentials for her child, sees half her salary disappear. The doctors and nurses who selflessly keep our hospitals standing. Students who read these days but tremble don’t fall into the vise of the minimum input base. Farmers and ranchers who are worried about whether they will continue to produce or leave the countryside. 700,000 households who fear that they may lose their home.”

The president of SYRIZA emphasized that “these feelings and expectations are translated as the days go by into a political decision, into a voting decision” and added: “Next Sunday we will definitively end the Mitsotakis regime”. He commented that he had previously heard Mr. Mitsotakis “talking to his few friends in Athens and saying ‘we have a big current'”. “And I wonder, how does this great stream come about and only the henchmen of Mr. Mitsotakis and himself see it and people don’t see it in their daily lives?” Where is this great current? Didn’t you see it in the squares, in the cafes, in the workplaces and in the villages?” “The only big current is the PPC bills that come to every household and have the stamp of Mr. Mitsotakis,” he said. He wondered “what will they tell us in a week to justify the unjustified actions of those who are trying today by force to convince us about this current Mitsotakis. They will start again the analyzes of how this happened, how they escaped the underground currents that are intensifying to SYRIZA”.

Mr. Tsipras called on the citizens on Sunday with their vote to deprive them of “the possibility of being able to talk about underground currents. But for a strong river. The river of victory and change”.