The president of her KO spoke of a “confession of failure”. New Left Alexis Haritsis in his appeal, strongly criticizing the prime minister for trying to paint an “image” for the government that “has done everything right”.

As he commented, “the farmers are obviously lying or are ungrateful” while underlining that he did not hear a “comprehensive plan” for compensation for the disasters and shielding Thessaly for the future.

Al. Haritsis accused the prime minister that “did not give a clear timetable” for the compensations and wondered if the farmers of Thessaly would be allowed to become the “first climate migrants in the country”. He emphasized, in fact, that “climate change” and “climate crisis” are not “abstract concepts” in order to be used as “excuses” for the “inadequacy” or “collapse” of the state apparatus. “It is a harsh reality that requires vigilance and a holistic strategy,” he said characteristically, underlining the need for “a state with completely different structures and resources”, a “developmental state” that will proceed on the one hand by “strengthening the resilience of infrastructure” in view of the even more extreme phenomena but also with the “production redesign” based on the new “climate data” and the needs of the national economy.

In this context, he emphasized the need for “transparency” and “democratic debate” between all the involved bodies and parties in order to achieve the necessary “consensus” and presented four conditions: a new management authority that, over a decade, will implement all projects, the recognition that there were “structural problems” in the Thessalian plain even before the disaster, the implementation of long-term solutions that are based on nature and not “scenarios of pharaonic projects” and finally, the implementation of short-term interventions that will be “absolutely integrated into the long-term planning » in order to support the producers of the region both financially and technically, in the first years.

Besides, the Al. Charitsis also raised the issue of the ongoing “dispossession” of farmers’ properties by large companies and abroadappealing to the government not to remain “passive” and not to “facilitate” this process for the benefit of “foreign profit-making interests”.

“As long as the residents are not involved in this process of economic, spatial planning, development planning of their place, the concerns will grow that the destruction of Thessaly is a crisis that some astute people will turn into an opportunity for profiteering at the expense of a society” concluded Al. Haritsis.