“THE reshuffle it is the prime minister’s exclusive prerogative and when there are such decisions they will be announced at a meeting of the Council of Ministers”, the government representative said, referring to the restructuring scenarios Pavlos Marinakisspeaking today on ERT.

“If we say that everything is going perfectly, it’s like saying that the night of European elections we didn’t see the results”, said Mr. Marinakis and continued:

“Now regarding the goal we set, we cannot say that we are satisfied. However, the main thing is that the citizens with their abstention sent some very specific messages. It is a given that we must adjust our strategy, run some issues faster, listen to what the people have to say to us, to lead us to a three-year period which will solve as many problems as possible for the citizens”.

“There are things that we realize that no matter how hard you try, no matter how much you do in order to reflect your policy, it takes time,” he commented.

Also, the government representative emphasized:

“If one of the alternative proposals of the opposition was realistic, the citizens would show it at the ballot box. The people by abstaining sent a message. Obviously, this cost more to the first faction, the first party, that is to say us and which worries us a lot. Europe is currently in a relative de-escalation, as is our country, but inflation remains the number one problem for households. And there are also many other problems, which you need to look at soberly.”

“It’s a given that many people were unhappy with the reform for same-sex couples” – What he said about the imputed income law

Afterwards, Pavlos Marinakis pointed out that the civil marriage of same-sex couples it is a given that he displeased a lot of people and the biggest mistake that one who holds a public office, whatever that may be, is to say that someone else is also to blame for his displeasure and you should listen to it especially when it comes from the your traditional base, from people who have only come and supported you out of their backwardness.

At the same time, referring to the bill on self-employed income presumptions, the government representative underlined:

“”There is no tax raid against any professional group. This law was an intervention, among other interventions in a problem that in Greece we hid under the carpet for decades, which was tax evasion”.

SYRIZA: The government did not understand anything from the result of the European elections

“They did not understand anything in New Democracy and the government from the result of the European elections. Proof, what the government representative said to ERT1 today (11/6)”, reports Mr SYRIZA in his statement.

In particular, he states that “P. Marinakis announced a shift towards the most conservative and brought back the doctrine of “law and order”, trying to rally the “traditional base” of the ND.

In addition, he attempted to pretextually apologize for the overtaxation of freelancers.” “We hope”, comments the official opposition, “that the government will understand that the solution to this is to follow the proposal of SYRIZA and to finally proceed with the reduction of VAT”.

The official opposition adds that “unfortunately, Mr. Marinakis did not stop there, but reached the point of attacking not only SYRIZA (expected), but also the Athens Bar Association and the relatives of the victims of the crime of Tempi for” instrumentalization” of the tragedy because they did not ask him for… permission to hold an event.” “The establishment perception continues unabated”, comments SYRIZA.