His great concern especially for the people of production and the country on the occasion of the parallel crises of the pandemic and the accuracy emphasized the President of SYRIZA Progressive Alliance, Alexis Tsipras, during the meeting he held with farmers, stockbreeders, professionals and organizations in Feres, in the first station of the region in Eastern Macedonia and Thrace.
Referring to yesterday’s data of ELSTAT for “inflation record”, which as he said “confirm that things are not going well at all”, he spoke about “Extremely difficult winter from the combination of the pandemic that erupts and accuracy “, pointing out the problems experienced by households, farmers, small businesses and traders. Mr. Tsipras, after discussing the problems they face and their anxiety about the explosion of accuracy and the lack of substantial support, spoke about the “syndrome of the third week”.
In the third week of each month, the money of the average family runs out to make ends meet, he noted characteristically, emphasizing that at the same time “the obligations are running and the income is not increasing”. “The average household has an extremely difficult month with the increases” stressed Mr. Tsipras, specifying that they reach up to 30% in the supermarket, while those in the price of electricity “in December is expected to be from 80 to 150% , in addition to these increases we have already seen in previous tariffs “.
On the occasion of yesterday’s announcements of the government, he stressed that “coming every ten days and increasing some subsidies that can not compensate even for 5-10% of the increases that the citizen sees in the PPC account, neither makes sense nor can to deal with the phenomenon “he stressed characteristically. “Here we are not dealing with families who have bank deposits, but with people who live on their income,” he added, recalling Mr. Mitsotakis’ disgust for people who are dependent on their salary.
“He had discovered that thousands of Greeks, the majority, are dependent on their salary,” he said.situation that I do not want to think what it will be like “if” the State does not support society to get through the winter “. In this context, the alarm bell rang for households that will not be able to have heating, for over-indebted businesses and for padlocks in small and medium enterprises. At the same time, he made special reference to the increases in oil and feed for farmers and stockbreeders, noting that “the cost of production has become twice and three times higher than in previous years.” “How will farmers be able to stand on their own two feet if there is no concern to support their income?” Asked Mr. Tsipras.
He denounced the government’s reluctance to take substantial measures to support the accuracy crisis, stressing that “for three years now the minimum wage has remained stagnant” and that it had rejected the SYRIZA PS proposal since September “to freeze all farmers the Special Consumption Tax, so that they can be supplied with cheap oil “. He added that the government’s announcement concerning agricultural cooperatives “should be extended to all farmers”, and that any reduction in VAT on feed and agricultural supplies does not come to offset the very large increases that are in the order of of 40% “.
Referring to the second serious crisis, that of the pandemic, Mr. Tsipras appealed to “everyone to make a great effort and to advance as far as possible the case of vaccination”, talking about a pan-army not only for the third but also for the first dose , on the occasion of our fellow citizens who are unvaccinated. “In your area we have rates very low at 50% and I am very afraid that we have not seen the worst,” he added. “It is not, as we are told with criminal responsibility, a pandemic of the unvaccinated, as there is a significant percentage of our vaccinated fellow citizens who are ill,” he noted, explaining that most of them escape the worst because of the vaccination.
Therefore “we must convince as many as possible, to raise the level of vaccination”. He described the cultivation of a climate of complacency with “Operation Freedom” as “criminal logic”, “that we were vaccinated and finished, as” many of our fellow citizens and vaccinated people are currently hospitalized “. In addition, he spoke of “criminal sloppiness with which the pandemic was dealt with”, calling even now for “efforts to be made to strengthen the NSS, to strengthen the medical and health staff, to strengthen the ICU” as he characteristically noted, “it is tragic after two years our fellow citizens die outside the ICU “although” we call them two years “.
.
