“Besides the very important bilateral meeting of the Prime Minister with the Turkish President Mr. Erdogan, the very important speech at the UN General Assembly, where he raised three very important issues and held everyone accountable, the Prime Minister held very important meetings and with investors, and with people from the diaspora”, government representative Pavlos Marinakis said to SKAI and the show “Kalimera” with George Autias.

“All these economic measures that the world needs in a difficult moment, do not arise by chance. They arise from the strengthening of the country, from the increase in GDP. Since Greece was the subject of discussion only for negative reasons. From where it was a beggar country, now it is a country that is leading the way step by step and returning to the citizens what they lost in the previous years“, he added.

Regarding the NHS, the government representative emphasized that “in previous years, due to the pandemic, it was found that the NHS was not in the condition that citizens deserve, and especially those who pay taxes to have decent public health. This was included in our program and with many moves made in EKAB, in public hospitals, a bill was announced by Mr. Chrysochoidis, which has three main initiatives”, such as “the distribution of medicines to people who are seriously ill, the single surgery list, the uniform drug distribution list’.

Mr. Marinakis also pointed out that “health workers will be recruited, in EKAV, in hospitals. Everything that has been announced by Mr. Chrysochoidis and the Ministry of Health”.

Referred to measures to combat tax evasion, the government spokesman said: “You will not hear about taxes from the Mitsotakis government. You will hear – whenever the economy allows – about reductions and eliminations. But, another issue that tax policy requires is fairness. Unfortunately, despite the many moves that have been made to limit tax evasion, it has been found that 7 out of 10 professionals declare less than 10,000 euros. When someone states that they live on 200-300 euros it is an injustice not only for the revenue of the state but also for those who need better health services, for those who want even lower taxes, so that the pretense fee is immediately abolished”

“A series of initiatives by the Ministry of Finance will gradually redress this injustice. In this way, the tax rates will be further reduced,” he added.

Regarding the SYRIZA elections, Mr. Marinakis noted that “the country needs a normal, political, constructive official opposition. Until now it had a toxic official opposition. Until recently, we faced an official opposition that questioned everything. The point is to have a tough, constructive opposition that criticizes the government. That’s how democracies work.”