“The demands of the rural world are just demands. Because, this time, no less profit is at stake. What is at stake is staying in the fields, in the countryside. It is whether they will continue to produce. And this is crucial for the country, for the Greek economy “, said the president of SYRIZA-PS, Alexis Tsipras after the meeting it had today with its representatives Panhellenic Committee of Blocks at his town hall Municipality of Killerer.
“THE accuracy has crushed every household. THE energy crisis “It has multiplied with the responsibility of the government, as a result of which we are the country with the most expensive wholesale electricity price in the whole of Europe, it has crushed the producers”, he noted, stressing that “the request to excise duty on agricultural oil, the demand for targeted subsidies to offset the frightening increases with the agricultural tariff adjustment clause, the demand for subsidized feed and agricultural supplies in order to fairly”. “I would say, quite logically, if we want the countryside and the Greek economy to stand,” he added, calling the “excuse that they will cause fiscal derailment” “funny”, noting that “it is the government’s choice not to support the wintering society.” .
“You can not make 5 billion, maybe even more, direct assignments, cut it 13th pension and to give 1.5 billion for the privatization of auxiliary insurance, 7 billion equipment and at the same time to say that you do not have the financial capacity to support the wintering society “he stressed and called on the prime minister” to stop the regime policy, that tries to hide the voice of the people who are struggling and claiming “. “It is no coincidence that no one will see the rural mobilizations on television lately. And I call on him to talk to them, as I did in 2016 in Maximou, instead of sending the MAT and ordering that the voices of protest and their demands be cut off from the public debate. In a democracy, claims and different voices can not be cut and in the end will not be cut. Because the struggle of the farmers and their demands do not only concern the farmers. They concern the whole of Greek society. “And the government must respond,” he said.
“We are confident that there will be no response to the requests. May there be dialogue. That is why we have long since submitted our proposal to the public debate. “There are no deadlocks in the Republic and where there are, they must be resolved by appealing to the popular verdict.”
Meeting with representatives of the Panhellenic Committee of Blocs
Earlier, at meeting she had with her representatives Panhellenic Committee of Blocks At the town hall of the Municipality of Killerer, Mr. Tsipras stigmatized the fact that “a very important part of the rural world is mobilizing for a very difficult reality, but no one has learned that these mobilizations exist”, calling the “exclusion” “unprecedented” of the voice of the rural world from the media sphere “.
He stressed that “it does not matter if anyone agrees or disagrees with you”, emphasizing that “it is an element of democracy for the parties and especially the government to listen to your demands, to take a position, to agree or disagree and the citizens to be informed”. He added that this exclusion is due to the fact that “the requests you submit, mainly those concerning the excessive costs and energy, are issues that concern not only the rural families but also the average Greek family, the average business.”
“Your voice is identified, perhaps for the first time, with the voice of anxiety in every Greek household and the government wants to avoid that,” Tsipras explained, noting that “it is not a figure of reason that your problems are now existential. because I know that electricity bills in production costs really make it a matter of existence to have a way out. ” Otherwise, he added, “there will be no benefit in living in the countryside and sowing your fields. And this is not an exaggeration but a finding “.
In this context, he stressed that he considered it his obligation to respond to the farmers’ request for a meeting, “considering that my institutional presence here as the leader of the official opposition could only force part of the media to show that you exist, protest and fight.”
He spoke of “regime conditions with exclusion of media from funding without criteria, with persecution of journalists and judges”. On the occasion of the removal of Mr. Kyrtsos from ND, he noted that he was deleted “because the alarm bell rang to become like Hungary and Poland, as the European court has linked the funding based on rights”, which as he said “Unfortunately in Greece they are in such targeting logics”.
After Killerer, Mr. Tsipras goes to Holywhere he will have a discussion with farmers, stockbreeders and professionals in the area.
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