The vote for SYRIZA it answers the four great needs: raising wages, lowering prices, regulating debts, fair and efficient government. The expectation of change is built on this, the president of SYRIZA PS emphasizes in an interview Alexis Tsipras.

Speaking to Sunday’s “Vima” newspaper, Mr. Tsipras noted that “we know and we can. We know exactly what to do and how to do it,” adding that the SYRIZA program “is not a program that we pulled out of the drawer a month before the polls. It is a specialized, cost-effective and immediately applicable program whose enrichment took years of processing.”

The president of SYRIZA PS claims that “the world is no longer convinced by the campaign of fear attempted by the ND. He saw his income dissipate over those four years. How much more should he be afraid?’ He points out that PNP will be implemented immediately after the elections to suspend auctions, reduce VAT and excise duty and abolish the Minimum Import Base. He states that the codification of the change, what and how it must be changed, concerns the “Change Contract” and the staffing of the ballots “with persons of known experience and specialized knowledge who will assume positions of responsibility”. He emphasizes that the combination of these “is a condition of the great victory of SYRIZA on Sunday and the great power that will fuel the new strong progressive government that will make change happen”.

Regarding the confrontation with SW regarding the costing of the program, he comments that “money for ND exists only for direct assignments to non-residents” and that what SYRIZA says “is not excessive, it is realistic and we know very well what fiscal balance means”. “ND put us in the memos, not us. We domesticated the public finances and got the country out of the memorandums,” he says. He adds that “we left everything laid out, for Mr. Mitsotakis to eat from ours ready” and emphasizes that “that is why we are now asking for the first opportunity to govern with our program and to bring justice everywhere”. Mr. Tsipras argues that the citizens have seen what it is like to have a government that understands the burden of responsibility, supports the welfare state, health and education, takes the country out of the memorandums, regulates the debt and leaves and 37 billion safety reserve in public funds. This chapter of honesty and seriousness remains open and is today the only progressive perspective for the place.” “The party that led the country to bankruptcy and that itself owes 400 million to the banks has no right to talk about cost estimates,” he comments.

Mr. Tsipras maintains that “the wave of indignation and disapproval towards the government of Mr. Mitsotakis” is not reversing and notes that “the goal of SYRIZA is to be as strong as possible at the ballot box this majority demand for change that we see now taking shape in society, so the mandate to the new progressive government should be even stronger.” He emphasizes that “only the clear victory of SYRIZA PS will pave the way for change, with the formation of a progressive government a few days later” and that “if we do not win, if ND wins by even half a unit, we will have four more years of Mitsotakis ». He comments that “after what has happened in the country, after the rape of democracy itself with the wiretapping case, after so much arrogance and indifference to society, I don’t want to think about what this might mean.”

When asked what connects and separates SYRIZA from PASOK, Mr. Tsipras states that there are now two very specific and conflicting answers to all issues, the progressive and the conservative. “The progressive camp is united on this basis. With our differences, with our origins, with each other’s criticism, but essentially on the same side,” he continues. He notes that for him this is the crucial thing, “from here on, however, a sense of responsibility is also required to go into action. And this is something that I think still separates us from PASOK”. He talks about PASOK’s “reluctance” to “set the dividing line as befits not only its history but also its current program”” and that it should be one, against the Right. “The two-front is both historically unacceptable and politically incorrect,” he says. “I wasn’t watching Mr. Androulakis,” he comments, “Mr. Mitsotakis was watching him.” He emphasizes that “if what he said the day before yesterday is true, that he wishes there to be accountability for the faults of the parastate, even for some to go to prison, he is well aware that there is only one way to do it. Obviously not to cooperate with the Right. But after the victory of SYRIZA PS, let’s sit at the table to talk and form a progressive government of stability and long life”.

Asked about Mr. Varoufakis “who says his hand should be cut off if he cooperates with you”, Mr. Tsipras comments that “for Mr. Varoufakis there is no question. Like all of us, he too has a history behind us and in my opinion at the critical moment Mr. Varoufakis’ view and attitude at the negotiating table in 2015 was identical to Mr. Schäuble’s. Therefore, he does not need to risk his skill.” Regarding the KKE, he commented that “it insists on a historical mistake”. “He insists on depriving the most historic party of the Left in the country the possibility of becoming what the KKE was for decades, that is, an active part of progressive and radical changes for the working classes,” he says. “At the end of the day, what does the KKE gain?” he comments, “the public respect of conservative politicians because they see an important political opponent at best standing harmless in front of them, at worst repeating their arguments against SYRIZA”.