“The budget confirms the absolute injustice and partiality of the government at the expense of the great majority of Greek society, which has difficulty dealing with accuracy and the feeling of insecurity”, said the press representative of SYRIZA PS, Dora Avgeri, in an interview with ERTNews.

He claimed that “the world has already understood that it is dealing with a government, which uses 41% as a permanent slogan to cover the pre-election mockery at its expense”, adding that “a characteristic example of deceiving the citizens is the horizontal and unfair measure of presumptions in the taxation of freelancers and the self-employed”. He added that while “the government was supposed to protect the first home and Swiss franc borrowers, instead of doing this with the supposed integration (of the European directive), it brought about the impossibility of the servicers’ accounts, while the same moment for freelancers doesn’t guarantee it.”

He commented that “people don’t understand the numbers about supposed growth. But what he realizes is that the holidays are coming and he can’t go to the market to buy the basics. He can’t be happy. He thinks about how he will buy a kilo of meat, a kilo of feta, get a liter of oil, which is produced in our country, but here it is sold more expensive than in countries to which it is exported.” He said, among other things, that “we have a record of taxation in the last 27 years, but also a record of taxation from indirect taxes: This year they increased by 7 billion compared to last year, i.e. by 40%, from VAT”. He commented that increases were only given to “blue-collar” hospital administrators and not to workers who “at the same time see a 50% increase in basic food items compared to last year.” “Government of insecurity, mockery and populism. Insecurity everywhere,” he said.

He argued that the government “has failed miserably” in the matter of citizens’ safety and that “unfortunately, the examples we have with the loss of young people’s lives are the most tragic evidence.” He accused her of not having done anything to deal with fan violence.” We hope that this time the government will put into practice the measures it adopted – and which the president of SYRIZA-PS had previously proposed from the platform of the KE – and deal with those who should”. He commented that “after 4.5 years of government and 7 amendments to the Penal Code, the government is once again resorting to criminal populism to communicate management of the feeling of insecurity that has formed all this time, precisely because it has done nothing to combat it crime”. He asked if Mr. Floridis could answer “why the feeling of insecurity has been established among the citizens”, “why we have an increase in serious crimes” and “who has ruled this place for 4.5 years now”. “They are both incapable and unwilling to fight crime, to help the Justice and the Greek Police forces,” he said.

Asked about the party’s congress and the goals ahead of the European elections, Mrs. Augeri said that “the European elections are definitely a milestone.

The starting point of this process was the recent Central Committee, where the road map that includes pre-conference procedures, the regional conferences, the selection of delegates and the holding of the Conference was defined by a unanimous vote. The first test will be the European elections.”

He noted that “our opponent is not the opinion polls”, but that “the issue is to really formulate such a political proposal to the people, which will transform into a proposal for a change of government”. “The issue is to convince the Greek people”, he said, stressing that this is where SYRIZA is focusing all its efforts. “The President, Stefanos Kasselakis, has also said it: we leave the past behind, we reset the counter. Other people enter into this process. New people, new minds, with social grounding, with marks in their science, their social field,” he added.