His president criticized the government’s handling of agricultural policy PASOK-Movement for Change, Nikos Androulakis, speaking on Radio Thessaloniki.

“Mr. Mitsotakis had not uttered a word about the farmers until they took to the streets the day before yesterday. Did he wait for the tractors to come out on the road so that the New Democracy government would wake up and see the situation?”, said Mr. Androulakis and added:

“The farmers saw the destruction in their bank accounts and in order not to be charged, Mr. Mitsotakis and Mr. Avgenakis led the president to resign OKAY. And I ask: He designed the Common Agricultural Policy? Have four presidents in OPEKEPE and four ministers changed in the five years they have been in power? Therefore, there is an overall failure and a redesign of the Common Agricultural Policy is needed.”

Its president PASOK-KINAL noted that “ELGA must be modernized and adapted to climate change. The great disasters of the present and the future will be due to the climate crisis. A farmer cannot today say that because the weather changes, in some years he will not have grapes to make wine. We need to put him in a framework of protection and security so that he can finance his effort and have a plan for the future.”

Mr. Androulakis he emphasized that “Greece can have many victories in Europe if it has a political staff that serves a strategic plan”.

Regarding the upcoming bill on the establishment of non-state non-profit universities he pointed out the absence of dialogue. “When was the education bill announced again and we discussed it based on only a non paper? Have you seen the bill? What is Mr. Pierrakakis waiting for? To discuss a month about same-sex couples, but a week about Greek universities? And you tell me that there is a government that wants consent? Nothing. Everything is communicative,” he emphasized.

Concerning the “crime of the Tempes”, as the president of PASOK-KINAL described it, he wondered if anyone would pay for it. “They took a report from the European Public Prosecutor’s Office and put it in the drawer. You cannot say that you have been looking for fleas in the straw since 1997, when the three-member committee of experts, appointed by Mr. Mitsotakis, said that if there was remote control, these trains would never have collided. The remote control project was paid for with European funds to ensure safety on Greek trains. We did not implement it for seven whole years and, instead of someone paying, they lead to a cover-up there as well”, commented Mr. Androulakis.

As announced by its president PASOK-Movement for Change, “next week we will have a very big campaign on housing costs and the housing crisis which will culminate on Friday February 9, when Mr. Mitsotakis will come to Parliament to answer my topical question on housing costs. And, secondly, we will organize at the beginning of March a big conference in Thessaloniki on the infrastructure needed by the city and Central Macedonia more broadly, with specific priorities. So that it can become a citizen-friendly city, with greenery. May Thessaloniki be a real capital of the Balkans and not experience what we are experiencing with the Flyover, because some people did not properly prioritize the city’s infrastructure.”