In fact, it emerges as the biggest problem that concerns the citizensthe government representative Pavlos Marinakis was asked to appear on the “Today” show on SKAI.

As he mentioned among the government’s measures the fixed 5% price reduction initiative seems to be paying off while, apart from the other interventions, an important measure is proving to be the posting of the prices as well as the controls on the companies which have been fined a total of 8 million euros.

Regarding the 1+1 offers in supermarkets, the government spokesman said that there is no question of canceling the offers. “We check if the offers are real and there is no deception. Alas if we removed an offer. We want real discounts, we check if the offers are offers”, he emphasized.

He also noted that out of the 8 million euros that have been imposed as fines on businesses, 5 million euros have been collected.

“In two well-known companies that were fined, the next day one company put in 50 new codes at a fixed price of 5%.”

Another measure is interventions to increase citizens’ incomes, such as increases for pensioners, civil servants, etc.

Invited to comment on the interview of Stefanos Kasselakis, the government spokesman said: “In our democracy, politicians are judged by the people. We prefer to build politics on this rather than commenting on our political opponents” and he continued “maybe because they were absent from the country – I do not say this as a reproach – they have not been informed how much harm this oppositional logic, of toxicity, did. He’d better tell us what he wants to do for the country, because all these months we’ve been seeing an internal party confrontation.”

With reference to the poll brought by the second party, PASOK and the statement of Mr. Androulakis who talked about the cover-up of the Tempe tragedy, Mr. Marinakis said that the government accepted a proposal to discuss the causes from 1997 onwards with a process that runs parallel to the justice system.