“We vote against the budget and all its expenses,” said the president of Freedom of Navigation Zoe Konstantopoulouroundly criticizing the government and saying that “we reject the Greece you are creating”.

Its president Freedom of Navigationduring the discussion of the state budget for 2025 in the Plenary, which ends today, he said that “we are voting against the entire budget because we know very well that it is not a budget for the citizens but to eat other funds” and added that “it is the your sixth budget and I will fight together with the citizens for it to be the last of your government”.

Ms. Konstantopoulou said that “what you have eaten” is 600 billion. euros, “without counting the budget revisions” and wondered “where are the schools, the hospitals, the staff in Civil Protection, Health, Education, the real infrastructure and projects” and added: “The question is: where did they go the money, what have you been doing for so many years and not where you will find it” and how “can you live like lords when the citizens are deprived of the basics?”.

The president of Plefsis Eleftheria accused the government of having made her “where we go and where she goes” the country of insecurity, of Tempe, which she insists on calling it an accident, and of wiretapping.

Ms. Konstantopoulou said that “we reject the Greece that you have built: of abuse, bribery, cover-up, issuance of permits with corruption and violation of legality, which sacks 800 families in Larko, that women, victims of abuse, cannot find shelter in a police station, of the uncontrolled placement of wind turbines on burned areas, of the degradation of justice, the alleged reforms of the judicial map and the land register, the disintegration of public health, the ranches and the lack of doctors, the degradation of Education and Culture, the empty Parliament with the minimum number of deputies present, police violence and repression, the prisons-hells, the gender-based violence that you cultivate inside the Parliament with your example, your external policy that opposes International Law and violates Human Rights, auctions of first and popular housing, blaming the new generation for your own sins and overloading them with debt they did not create, controlled information, debt default and non-claim , the systemic degradation of the environment, the refusal to hire seasonal firefighters, the fate you have reserved for rural population, your contempt for vulnerable groups, the privatization of electricity and water, the sell-off of public property, the bleeding of workers with taxes and extortion, the deprivation of the 13th and 14th salary, the presumptions to the self-employed, the gifts to days, the division of public money”.

The president of Plevsis Eleftheria proposed: Radical strengthening of Education and Culture. The abolition of all privileges of political personnel. The abolition of the immunities of parliamentarians and ministers. The restoration of the 13th and 14th salary. The adoption of the 10 proposals of the Freedom of Navigation for the agricultural policy. We are asking for real support for freelancers and the self-employed. Real policy for young people and their housing. Absolute first home protection from auctions and foreclosures. Prohibition of auctions and cancellation of debts from the period of the memorandums and the pandemic. The return from the banking system of the funds given by the Greek State for recapitalizations and guarantees. To be returned because it is money given by the Greek people. The abolition of VAT for critical and affected areas. Recruitment in Health, Education and Justice to fill vacant organizational positions. Permanentization and 12-month work of seasonal forest firefighters. Institutionalization of artistic education. Strengthening the people of Culture. A real claim to our cultural heritage, the Nazi stolen archaeological treasures and the Parthenon sculptures. Strengthening the vulnerable and disabled, people in sports. Audit of the money spent from public money and the Recovery Fund. Equality and protection against gender-based violence with resources. Infrastructure for safety projects on railways, airports and roads. Citizen protection and not repression. Financial protection of Justice. Truly Independent Authorities. Recovery of assets that have been sold off. Restoration of all citizens’ salaries. Strengthening the institution of Decentralization and Self-Government.

Ms. Konstantopoulou said that “blue is not the color of the ND, but you should look for your own color in misery. You own the color of misery” and added that “misery is not dreaming and fighting” like Freedom Sailing, which along with “the many energetic people who are out in society, alive, pulsating, dreamers, activists (…) we will make sure that this year’s 2025 budget is the last one brought by the ND government and that the next one has all the features I have mentioned to you.”