“On Sunday June 9, the people and youth of Peristeri, like all the Western districts of Athens, have the opportunity to speak and be heard loudly. They should go to the ballot box with the KKE ballot in hand and ‘nail’ it decisively, against those and what are bothering them, to give an answer to the mockery” said the General Secretary of the KKE Central Committee, Dimitris Koutsoubas, in his speech this evening in a large gathering in Peristeri.

He said that the parties of the system and the EU “think they will fool the people with the fake dilemmas, the blackmails, the ridiculous fights that they set up on tik tok, while they make fun of the serious issues, the ones that define our lives and which are judged in these elections”.

Stating that “Greece and our people are involved in two wars in the region, which have the seal of the EU, which is a war hawk” he added that “the EU, its directives, its directions – which everyone votes for except for KKE in the European Parliament – he is behind every crime against the people and the youth, behind every small and big problem he faces every day in his life.”

“They think that they will prevent the even greater strengthening of the KKE by keeping silent, by defiantly ‘burying’ its daily action, by distorting and slandering its positions. They count without the hotelier: The members and friends of the party and the KNE, which is the voice of the KKE, everywhere in all the neighborhoods in all the workplaces,” he emphasized.

Noting that the KKE defends the workers and the people every day, he added, among other things, “for these reasons in the last parliamentary elections, Peristeri gave the KKE a very high percentage, over 12%.” The same goes for the entire Western Sector, proof that there is and is a growing current of questioning the dominant policy, the EU, the government and its parties.”

“Thanks to the power of the KKE, the ND is talking about 41%, but here in the Western Sector it got one of its lowest percentages nationwide. And now it has to get even lower. Cut off her pride and arrogance. To make the people tremble when they think of bringing the next anti-people measures” he said, noting that this cannot be done by voting for SYRIZA, PASOK, New Left, Velopoulos and the rest, i.e. the forces that are calming down, each in its own way, this The politics”.

“The power of the ND government is only cut by strengthening the real opponent of their politics, the KKE, the only party that was an opponent of the EU from the time of its establishment, until today,” he emphasized.

D. Koutsoubas, referring to the labor-popular struggles, as well as the farmers’ and students’ struggles of the previous year and the previous months, pointed out that “it has been proven that an opposition in the country exists and is growing stronger, as well as an important current of questioning the dominant policy”.

He said that in all these battles, “the forces of the KKE were the mind, the heart and the organizer” while “the MPs and MEPs of the KKE were their constant and valuable support”.

D. Koutsoubas said that “on June 10, all the big hooligans for the workers will be here and more will be added if we don’t take our measures. That is why Mr. Mitsotakis is trying to blackmail with the threat of political stability, if the ND does not get the percentage of the previous European elections”.

“There is no greater and better confession of the anti-people character of what they are preparing. And of course there will be a government on June 10.

They just want to keep their hands free, not to have people on the street protesting, as they admit themselves,” he added.

He called on the workers and the people, on June 9 with a vote for the KKE, “to issue a ‘red card’ to the politics of the EU and its parties, to SYRIZA and PASOK who come from the past, carrying the same well-known delusions of social democracy: That supposedly with another government of theirs, but applying the same policies of the EU, doing all the favors of the exploiters, the social parasites who also call them ‘investors’, the people will also see a white day”.

“To issue a ‘red card’ to those who present themselves as supposed saviors who will ‘change everything’ without changing anything, something like contractors of ‘solutions’, with the people a lifetime on the sidelines or more or less in the role of applauders and followers he added.

“The choices, in the final analysis, are two: Either we approve and tolerate the brutality we live in to continue and escalate, or we say ‘Enough, this is it!'” said D. Koutsoubas and underlined:

“Voting for either the ND government or the consensual opposition of the EU and NATO parties is approval. The parties that, here in the municipality of Peristeri, have literally become one and jointly support the same anti-popular municipal authority. Abstention is approval or even tolerance.”

He also emphasized that “if someone thinks that nothing changes by voting in the European elections, we tell them, yes. Nothing changes just by voting in the European elections. That is why the KKE, the vote you will give it, will deposit it every day and every hour where everything changes: In the struggles and battles for our lives”.

“And those of you who feel left-wing, progressive, anti-fascist, democrat, and can’t see these far-right saltimps raising their heads, you know what you have to do: The vote for the KKE is the one that will leave all of them behind, on the sidelines,” he added.

D. Koutsoubas concluded his speech by calling on the people of Peristeri and the Western Sector “to fill the ballot boxes with the KKE ballot, so that the government, the EU and their system receive a message of resistance. So that the Greek people and all the peoples of Europe get a message of optimism and hope. For all that we will conquer tomorrow with our struggle and with the KKE in front, on the front line. For the radical changes we need. For Greece and the Europe of the peoples. Greece and the Europe of socialism”.

The candidates with the KKE’s European ballot paper, Konstantina Kouneva and Ioanna Kolovou, addressed the gathering.