The workers and the youth should vote for the KKE, strengthen it, so that the people themselves will be strong the next day, emphasized the general secretary of the KKE Central Committee, Dimitris Koutsoubas, in an interview he gave this morning to “Radio Thessaloniki”.

“We prefer to be entrenched by the parties that have ruled, or have given a helping hand to the system so that our people have a bad time and get us to this situation, but to be with the people and their struggles,” said Mr. .Kutsoumbas.

Mr. Koutsoumbas underlined that the next government “will be anti-people by hand” based on the programs of the other parties and that the KKE will be in the position of the “dynamic opposition, with the working people’s movement with its actors and its struggles “. He estimated that from the May 21 elections a government could be formed from the other parties, since, as he said, “governments are made by those who have common programs” and noted that the other parties “have common constituents”, citing statements by Bakoyannis, Tsapanidou and Venizelou, that their parties “don’t have huge and substantial differences between them on the big issues.” He noted, however, that they don’t want to now “for petty party reasons” and added:

“And who guarantees Mr. Mitsotakis and Mr. Tsipras that there will be self-reliance even with the bonus of 50+ seats in the first party, on July 2, in the summer. Won’t they make a government of cooperation then? Isn’t that how it happened in 2012? It will be done. Then they will sit down. Why should they not sit down from now, and there must be this suffering of forty days? Anyway, that’s what they choose.”

He pointed out that SYRIZA voted for 50% of the bills brought by the ND and PASOK voted for 70%. He pointed out that by 2025, we will have another 350 prerequisites – Recovery Fund bills. Prerequisites with which the KKE disagrees, while ND, SYRIZA and PASOK have voted for them in the Commission, in the European Parliament and have said publicly that they will support them.

Mr. Koutsoubas also referred to the opening of SYRIZA to the KKE, saying:

“SYRIZA is scratching at the shepherd’s pie. When a political party, a political leader speaks and addresses the KKE knowing its positions, not because he wants to pressure the KKE, he knows that he is not being pressured, he knows our positions, he is not stupid, nor naive, he understands very well what we are saying and the pre-election period and this entire four-year period, as well as the entire four-year period that he ruled. So, he is addressing some of his voters, who have left and are today with the KKE, they will vote for him on Sunday. Statements are published every day by former executives, members, and voters of SYRIZA who say so far, we are now going to strengthen the KKE and this saddens him, annoys him. It is justified when he loses his voters. And that’s why he speaks badly and disparagingly about the KKE, while he should talk to his own associates, talk to his people, convince his people, because he wants to give it a chance.”

He emphasized that the people should not give any chance either to the current administrator of power, or to the previous one.

The general secretary of the KKE emphasized that the KKE is fighting for today, so that the people can breathe a sigh of relief, for auctions, wages, labor relations, health, education.