There will be no more general lockdown in the country, those who have been vaccinated will not suffer new restrictions, clarified Kyriakos Mitsotakis in his speech to the Parliamentary Group of New Democracy, the first meeting for life due to the pandemic.
If necessary, he clarified, we will order services and staff to the NSS, the Minister of Health has the absolute power to move sooner rather than later.
For the unvaccinated, the Prime Minister clarified that they must be protected by inspections everywhere, and many tests.
He stressed that in addition to the first pillar, that is, no more lounges in the country, and the second, the freedoms for vaccinations, there is a third pillar, the continuous strengthening of the NSS with controls everywhere, treating the country essentially as a health region. “We will do whatever is necessary to add human resources to the NSS,” he assured.
Vaccinations: “This is how the pandemic will end”
The fourth pillar, he explained, is to strengthen the vaccination program. “This is how the adventure will end, with a new wave of vaccinations in response to the latest outbreak of the virus,” he said.
It is irresponsible to make the situation better, noted Kyriakos Mitsotakis, there is no doubt that we still have difficult weeks ahead of us, but the positive thing is that in the last few days alone there have been almost 200,000 vaccinations for the first dose and almost 300,000 for the booster dose. “This is extremely encouraging. We must continue like this, if we succeed we will widen the wall and the third installment will close any cracks in the wall. The third installment, the Prime Minister added, is necessary especially for our older fellow citizens.
“Today the pandemic primarily affects the unvaccinated, they are in danger, dozens of unnecessary lives are lost every day, which would have been protected by the vaccine. “What hurts me more than the wrong fear or the wrong view is the wrong pain and the wrong death,” he said.
“The measures we take are what all countries take, we are even stricter in the certificate for access to indoor recreation and dining areas,” he explained.
“SYRIZA is a health, social and sometimes national saboteur”
“Our defense reinforcement shows our readiness to defend our territorial sovereignty and our sovereign rights in any treaty,” the prime minister stressed, continuing his speech at the meeting of the ND Central Committee. “We must always maintain the same commitment to our national goals until the national elections of 2023. We meet the acceptance of the citizens, their always welcome criticism, we meet the absolutely logical feelings of insecurity in times of great change.” However, “we also meet the populist, nihilistic and spasmodic opposition of SYRIZA. I had said that with SYRIZA we are separated by a value, aesthetic, political and cultural gap. It is the party of lies that says “yes” to nothing and “no” to everything. It is evolving into a health, social and sometimes national saboteur. In society, too, it follows the same subversive tactics. The leader asked the schools to open when they closed and to close when they opened. It continues to put tripods and pitfalls in pandemic management. I did not intend to refer to Mr. Tsipras but I could not but give an answer to his visit yesterday to the Hippocrates of Thessaloniki. However, he did not ask how many ICUs the hospital had when it handed over power: 8 and now it has 30 ICUs and 8 MAFs “, underlined Kyriakos Mitsotakis.
The Prime Minister stressed that SYRIZA did not vote for the defense agreements, nor for measures to support society. “Mr. Tsipras dares to say that he is becoming a itinerant transgressor of human pain at all levels,” he said characteristically.
Reducing inequalities is a non-negotiable priority
“Our economy is growing at a much faster pace than those we had initially estimated,” said Kyriakos Mitsotakis. “I will not be surprised if the 6.1% growth rate is revised upwards,” he said, adding: “But the most important thing is to reduce unemployment. “Reducing inequalities is a non-negotiable priority for us, and we will insist on creating new jobs and attracting investment because they reduce inequalities.”
Greece from a Mediterranean observer node of power
“As a government, we agreed to set the bar high, as a result of which we are compared to ourselves,” the prime minister said during his speech at the meeting of the New Democracy parliamentary group in Parliament.
“This rapid political metabolism should not apply at the level of national choices, because here Greece has really turned the page,” he said, adding: “An observer of the Mediterranean has become a hub of power in the last two years. I will not refer to the green certificate and our contribution to the establishment of the Recovery Fund, but I will say that this government established national borders as European by introducing the doctrine of security and humanity in immigration.
And Kyriakos Mitsotakis stressed that “the Greek citizen feels equal as a citizen of the world, because our country has regained its prestige internationally. The agreement with France upgrades the deterrent power of our country “.
“SYRIZA unbelievable misery for unaccompanied refugee children”
“I want to denounce from this step the unbelievable misery of SYRIZA to spread vulgar lies about the unaccompanied refugee children, at a time when the government has denounced the perpetrators of these misfortunes in justice,” Kyriakos said in his speech. “It seems that our opponents have learned nothing and continue to circulate a reality that does not exist for our government,” he said.
“Here is what progressive governance is”
“Their last argument is the progressive government … I answer them, wrong address. Progressive is gov.gr that serves the citizen, progressive is to reduce unemployment. Green policies are progressive, not lignite defense. It is progressive to reduce taxes, to protect income from revaluations, to bring in foreign capital. These are progressive policies to stop words from losing their meaning. And above all, it is progressive to defend and proudly highlight the upgraded image of the country in the world. This is a progressive policy and this is followed by our faction, the ND “.
Concluding his speech at the meeting of the New Democracy Parliamentary Group in Parliament, the Prime Minister also stated: “You know that my door and my office are always open. I have instructed the ministers to be available in communication with the Members. I want you to become the messengers of the future and the country that is changing “.
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