The president of SYRIZA-PS, Alexis Tsipras, spoke about “a surplus in public money with the Mitsotakis seal in terms of public procurement” after his meeting with the administration of the Unified Independent Public Procurement Authority, and called for other policies. forces to take a stand.
In a statement after the meeting with the administration, he explained: legislation, in relation to direct assignments and closed tenders.
All this time we have been talking about the excessive amount of 5 billion euros in the first 18 months. The four months that followed until October, increased this amount to close to 7 billion euros. Four billion in closed tenders and 2.7 billion in direct assignments. In fact, direct assignments, for which the government had taken care to legislate the increase of the limit from 20,000 to 60,000 euros and the removal of any limit for assignments that have to do with the pandemic “.
Summing up, the president of SYRIZA claimed that “in the name of the pandemic, 2.7 billion direct assignments were made abusively, while the pandemic concerned only 320 million euros” and added:
“This is a yurousi, a robbery of public money with the Mitsotaki seal. And I wonder: Who will manage the billions of the Recovery Fund? This government that seizes every opportunity to plunder public money without giving an account? It is a matter of democracy. And I call on all political forces to take a stand. And of course, the government to apologize to the Greek taxpayer “.
Earlier, during a meeting with the administration of the Single Independent Public Procurement Authority, Mr. Tsipras asked for information about the work of the Authority and the explosive increase of public procurement that is done either by direct assignments or by closed tenders. According to information from Koumoundourou, Mr. Tsipras noted in his introduction:
“At a time when the last euro of taxpayers is crucial and useful, and especially now that social needs are rising by an unprecedented wave of accuracy, it is particularly important for citizens to know where and how taxpayers’ money is spent.” In this context, he underlined his concerns and left hints for “an abusive tendency to include even fixed public expenditures in expenditures due to a pandemic”.
According to the same information, the alarm bell rang for bad habits of the past that led us to the budget diversion. “Despite the fact that the country is in much better conditions than it was in the difficult conditions of the 8 years of the memoranda, we must not forget that some bad habits led us to the fiscal diversion,” he noted.
Finally, referring to the forthcoming merger of the Authority, he spoke of “its substantial degradation”, noting that transparency about the elements of public contracts is a key element of the Republic “.
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