The president of SYRIZA – Progressive Alliance toured the Nice market, Alexis Tsiprason Friday morning, where he had the opportunity to discuss with many consumers and shopkeepers about the suffocating situation in which they have fallen from the price rally.
After his tour, Alexis Tsipras made the following statement to the press:
“It would be good for Mr. Mitsotakis and his ministers to come out of the protection of their offices, from the bowl that is closed, and to walk one day in a popular area. In any area of the country they want. To talk to small and medium-sized businesses, to the common people.
The market is groaning. Small and medium-sized enterprises are in despair. Citizens are seeing their purchasing power shrink. To be precise, it now creates conditions of economic suffocation in the average household. Gasoline climbs to 2 euros. Electricity prices are rising two or three times and neither households nor businesses can afford it.
It’s not going anymore. It is necessary today for the government to stop pretending to be the traffic warden of the cartels and to give a way out.
Today, now, the minimum wage must be raised to 800 euros to boost employees’ incomes and move the market.
Today, now, there must be intervention to de-escalate PPC tariffs.
Reduce the Excise Fuel Tax to the lowest level allowed by the Commission.
Reduce the VAT rate for basic foodstuffs and consumption to the minimum rate.
These are measures that the government of Mr. Mitsotakis refuses to implement, its mind is how to support those who have and not those who work hard and manage to get by.
So we need the popular verdict. Elections that will give a progressive government, that will support households and businesses. “Who will implement these measures from day one, which will be able to support employees, households, consumers, small and medium-sized businesses.”
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