“When you are beaten mercilessly, daily, by the rulers of a rotten system, this is why you endure it all: The contact with you, the hug with the person, bending down and listening to the citizen. Why this happened to the country’s professional politicians: They forgot to listen. They forgot to listen to the only one they have an obligation to listen to. The Greek people” said the president of SYRIZA-PS, starting his speech in Agios Titos Square in Heraklion Stefanos Kasselakis, just 24 hours before the European elections on June 9.

Mr. Kasselakis referring to the double elections in May and June 2023 and that Crete was painted blue, emphasized that “we must now correct this mistake together. Because it’s not the wrong color. It’s the wrong life. It is a life that waits for pre-election crumbs to live” and how it is “half the life that the Prime Minister measures in half a kilo of feta cheese, in half a kilo of bread, in half a liter of petrol, lest he deceive anyone that expensive is cheap”.

“It is the half-life that is a strategic choice of the ND, so that everything goes to a few. It’s half the life we ​​don’t deserve” said Stefanos Kasselakis who called it “a matter of honor for the democratic people of Crete to return our island to its democratic colors”, referring to the island’s strong ties with Andreas Papandreou.

“Perhaps for several of your friends, your acquaintances, the presence of PASOK’s sun on a ballot will be enough to awaken memories and emotions. But which PASOK, friends? Which PASOK are we talking about today? Do you think that if Andreas Papandreou saw from one side the current leader of PASOK, watched by the EYP, keeping silent and frowning in front of Mitsotakis, he would be happy?” said Mr. Kasselakis, adding that “Andreas would not only have filed the lawsuit that Androulakis is afraid to file, but through his monitoring he would have brought down the Mitsotakis regime” and that “this is not the progressive faction that needs the country. Because the great democratic faction was never a complement of the Right.”

Stefanos Kasselakis also attacked the former comrades in SYRIZA who accused them of “taking a stand in SKAI” on the condition, as he noted, that they do not hit Mitsotakis, but that their arrows are fired at their former comrades.

“Does so much self-abasement deserve a seat in the European Parliament?” said Stefanos Kasselakis, adding that “unfortunately, what unites them is not the Left but hatred”, while he commented on reports that mention the imminent cooperation of “the professionals of the stolen seat with what will be left of PASOK – KINAL after the European elections ».

Stefanos Kasselakis asked the citizens to participate in the elections and support SYRIZA-PS because as he said “if the ND gets a strong opponent on Sunday, a lot changes”.

“I call on you to mark the end of arrogance. Let’s delineate the political map of Greece from the beginning,” said Mr. Kasselakis, while also referring to his political agenda that he presented yesterday in Thessaloniki.

“Various media are now coming out and saying. The platform is open for the initial declaration. He can file it. Which initial? Are they serious? In other words, should I submit the statement until September when I took over as President of SYRIZA? For them to come out later and say “he’s been hiding for three months” and “he’s been hiding Tyler because the wedding was in October?” said Stefanos Kasselakis, who challenged the Prime Minister, as he said, “to open the electronic platform tomorrow morning so that we can both submit our whereabouts for the whole of 2023”.

“No games with me, Mr. Mitsotakis” he said, while adding that “I am the only political leader who has made public his financial situation for 2023, when the prime minister of the country has stayed in 2021” He also referred to the comparison of the eshesh, saying “on the one hand, a businessman who made millions in profit for his investors in America after sweat and risk. And on the other hand, the politician, who got a hereditary bench in the parliament, and with the salary of the deputy, acquired 39 properties – without Voltaire’s house inside. Because Voltaire is ignored. The Paradise Papers offshore is ignored. But mainly the last two years of the Prime Minister’s property are ignored.”

Stefanos Kasselakis, on the occasion of the presentation of his assets, spoke of “embarrassment at Maximos”, saying characteristically “They are really funny. Or rather, they’d be funny if they didn’t rule the country. When caricatures hold human life in their hands, then things are not funny, but dramatic” commenting that he himself is not a professional politician and that his only “weapon against the Greek people is my truth”.

Regarding the only mistake he has made, he mentioned that when he came from America and was elected president of SYRIZA, he could not imagine that the laws in Greece would give an expatriate the right to be elected, but if elected he would they forbid him to have the company he had in the country he comes from.

“For this negligence of mine, I am at the disposal of the Greek justice system. And if he fines me, I will pay it. With great pleasure. Do you know why; Because in the country of impunity, in the country where Karamanlis of Tempo is a member of parliament, in the country where the indistinct Georgiadis is a minister, in the country where Mitsotakis of surveillance, undeclared real estate and off shore is prime minister, I will gladly be the first politician who shall pay the penalty reserved to him by law. Because laws are for everyone. And they must, finally, apply to everyone” said Stefanos Kasselakis who, during his speech in Heraklion, said that SYRIZA “will fight for a justice that will not archive the powerful and condemn the poor devils. Which will really be blindfolded, so that from her seat she cannot distinguish the rich from the poor, the famous from the anonymous, the fireplaces from the common mortals.

Addressing the gathered, Mr. Kasselakis emphasized that “politics is not a pat on the back or almsgiving to a stooped people”, but rather “being able to provide solutions to a proud people” and that with this in mind “we designed our proposals – now costed by the General Accounting Office of the State itself – which will give citizens a breather”.

“Money trees? No! Simply, the water will not water only the same branch. It will water the whole tree, because this is how a society moves forward all together, with social protection, without anyone being left behind,” said Stefanos Kasselakis.

In view of the European elections, the president of SYRIZA P-S said that the message must be given “at the ballot box of the European elections. After: Desert of Arrogance. Three years without an election, three years without the right to send them a message. A resounding message on Sunday” and that “ND has only one opponent it fears: SYRIZA. Because no one is holding us back. Because no one is holding me. And why only SYRIZA has a positive agenda for the citizens’ future. The difference is in the right to happiness.”