According to official data, while in the last five years the annual government expenditure on the leasing of aerial vehicles has tripled (468,039,745 euros in the period 2020-2024, compared to 113,977,600 euros in the period 2015-2019 in the midst of memoranda), however, they have also tripled the burned areas (3,714,110 acres in the period 2020-2024, against 861,340 acres in the period 2015-2019), reports the Manolis Kapnisakis, Director of the Political Office of the President of SYRIZA – Progressive Alliance.

Our country now holds the sad first place in the EU. both in the ratio of burned area per number of fires (in 2023 each fire in Greece burned an average of 10,090 hectares, while in Italy it burned 780 and in France 410), and in the percentage of burned area classified as “Natura 2000” (out of the total of Of the 1,750,000 hectares burned in 2023, 706,400 were in “Natura 2000” sites, amounting to 40% of all burned areas. In 2023, Greece was ranked first with the most hectares of land burned in “Natura 2000” areas. in absolute number) notes Mr. Kapnisakis.

“The above situation is not due to a coincidence, nor to a “local” escalation of the consequences of climate change especially in our country. It is clearly the result of the criminal indifference of the ND government and the complete incompetence of the “staff” state of Mr. Mitsotakis, which, combined with the thoughtless waste of public money for the benefit of the “dead” (since neither prevention is strengthened, nor aerial vehicles are sufficient, nor firefighters are hired), leads with mathematical precision to the geometric increase of burned areas, which cannot be be hidden or mitigated neither with the communication shows, nor with Mr. Mitsotakis’ bombastic, identical declarations every time over the burnt…”