“These are favorable polls for the government and ND. But, I repeat, in order not to be inconsistent, I always see polls more, especially in the phase we are in now, because now we are two and a half years before the elections, I always see them as a direction, as something that shows more trends and I am less interested in if it’s one unit up, half a unit down, that is, I don’t think that’s a significant finding.” This was stated by the Minister of State, Makis Voridis, commenting on the recent polls by Pulse and Metron Analysis, in an interview on Channel 1 of Piraeus.

“I think that these polls also show that there is a clear lead of the ND, which also shows the acceptance of the government, there has been a reversal in the position of the opposition of the second party, there I think PASOK is clearly ahead with a clear margin, and SYRIZA which was the second party in the elections, in fact it has largely liquidated”, noted Mr. Voridis and added: “Latinopoulos’ party seems to be being founded and where there were “Spartans” inside, Latinopoulou will probably be there. So this specific space has internal redistributions”. “The general political scene reveals what was also seen in the budget, the government is stable, the government emerged strengthened from the budget process and this is also reflected in the measurements,” he stressed.

Regarding the problems of everyday life, the Minister of State pointed out: “We deal with improving the lives of citizens, but we always see and judge this in relation to our commitments and the mandate we have received from the citizens in our pre-election program ».

“Because otherwise everyone can set whatever bar they want in their daily life and its improvement. We want to be judged and I think this is fair and honest to be judged in relation to our commitments in our pre-election program”, he added.

Finally, regarding taxation and freelancers, Mr. Voridis underlined: “For the self-employed we have reduced the tax rates and at the same time we have completely abolished the pretense fee much earlier than we had planned to do it. Also, it is obvious that those who have employees benefit from the reductions in insurance contributions, therefore the non-salary costs for work. I think a series of things have been done which favor both freelancers and the self-employed and small businesses”.

“The fact that we have a significant increase in tax revenues while at the same time we have a reduction in tax rates is the result of a series of measures, the measures, mainly, to deal with tax evasion” concluded the Minister of State.