“We will support pensioners and the vulnerable from the taxation of the refineries’ surpluses,” he told the and on the show “Morning” with Akis Pavlopoulos, the secretary of the ND PE Maria Syregela.

Mrs. Syregela emphasized that “it is not the first time that we enter the procedure of extraordinary taxation on excess profits. With this money, we strengthened the average family and our weakest fellow citizens in the past.”

The secretary of the Political Committee of the New Democracy and MP for West Athens, referring to the timing of the government intervention and the taxation of super profits, said: “If we were thinking in small-party terms, we would have announced this measure before the elections. But that’s not how a serious state works. We first had to make sure that the measure would work and that it would not be a transiently nice procedure for the eyes of the world.”

Finally, Mrs. Sirengela also referred to the report of the Spanish Central Bank, saying that “the conclusion of the report shows that what the opposition parties say about the VAT reduction does not work” and added: “Interventions must be targeted. If there is a reduction in VAT, but this does not reach the consumer, then in the end we have only succeeded in reducing the state’s revenues”.