By Yannis Anifantis

New Democracy MP Giorgos Vlachos pointed his arrows at the Minister of Development Takis Theodorikakos, after yesterday’s debate on the topical question he submitted to the minister.

With his statement today, Mr. Vlachos accuses the minister of telling half the truth about the inflation of the years 2007-2008-2009, when Mr. Vlachos was in the position of Deputy Minister of Commerce, speaking about a temporary memory gap of Mr. Theodorikakou, as he hid the data of 2009, a year in which inflation fell to half of today’s.

The entire statement of Mr. Vlacho:

During yesterday’s discussion of my current question about the operation of the market, Mr. Theodorikakos chose to close his deuteronomy – thus removing any possibility of an answer from me – to refer to my own period as a minister and refer to the food inflation of the years 2007 and 2008.

Either he did it to defend his own politics, or he did it to diminish ours. Such comparisons are of little value to consumers. But since he chose her, it would be good if he told the whole truth and not half of it. The fact that Mr. Theodorikakos mentioned only the years 2007 and 2008, omitting 2009. Estimating that this is a temporary memory gap of his, I remind you that in 2009, the measures implemented then and which I propose again today resulted in the reduction of inflation to 1.6%, i.e. in half of today.

What emerges from the evolution of the sizes is that it was a difficult battle, but with the application of measures of a market nature (transfer pricing, checks on excessive profitability, etc.) always within the framework of European legislation, we managed to gradually reduce the rate of increase in food inflation from Dec. 2008 steadily at levels below 4% and we delivered it in September 2009 at a rate of 1.6%.

For the record, I mention that according to ELSTAT, food inflation in September 2024 reached a rate of 3.2%, i.e. double that of September 2009.