“It is our duty to be the voice of society”, stressed Stefanos Kasselakis during his speech at the K.O. meeting. of SYRIZA PS.

Starting his speech, he thanked all the MPs who are fighting for the budget and for the fact that “our party is also standing in this crucial parliamentary battle with documentation, arguments, with proposals, with a plan. He thanked them for the fact that “they are fighting this crucial political battle on the right side, of justice against injustice, on the side of equality against inequality, of progress against conservatism, of the interests of the great social majority against a policy that it favors the few and the powerful. With empathy towards the arrogance of the 41% about society, which feels anger, insecurity, frustration, resignation – and says it explicitly in the polls.

Regarding the tours he made in the previous days, Mr. Kasselakis said that he met Athena Papachristou, the grandmother who donated an ambulance to EKAV. “She opened her home to me, I shared her humanity, I thanked her for her honor. It sends a very strong message that in the year 2023 the philotimos should not and cannot replace the state”. He mentioned that Mrs. Papachristou said that a person is needed to “straighten out the state”, to comment: “I deeply believe that popular wisdom often hides great truths, great ideas, all the things we need to do in order for our country to move forward and justice” .

He emphasized that “without an effective, interventionist, fair state there can be no prosperity in our society, the potential of the people of the country cannot be utilized, which is enormous. This is our huge difference with the ND, the progressive faction with the Right.”

He said watching the budget debate “it’s clear two worlds are colliding.” “What the ministers and MPs of the New Democracy are saying these days are taken from the harshest traditions of trickle down economics,” he said.