SYRIZA-PS accuses the government representative of lying about the standard of living of the citizens.

Responding to the government spokesman’s statements, the party’s press office states that “he is starting the year with lies that even he himself does not believe. It found a 3% drop in the holiday basket again today, to mask an overall increase of 40% from 2019 to 2024, based on data from all producers and suppliers.

In fact, he missed somewhere the Eurostat survey, which, under the responsibility of the ND, ranks Greek men and women in the last place in Europe in terms of purchasing power, based on the pps (purchasing power standard) index. That’s why they don’t talk.”

Continuing, he refers to the tax policy: “However, the government representative insists on the poem of the alleged tax reduction, as if it is addressed only to shipowners and major shareholders of listed companies, while the Ministry of Finance refutes him by officially announcing monstrous surpluses of billions above the targets, a result of horizontal strangulation of Greek society with indirect taxes on products and services”.

Regarding the housing problem, he argues: “However, the most challenging thing is that, while Greece, according to Eurostat data, is at the top of the EU in terms of housing costs, as Greeks consume 35.2% of their total disposable income to cover their housing needs, with a percentage that far exceeds the EU average, which stands at 19.7%, the government representative and the ND they market the banking program “My Home” 1 and 2 as a housing solution. In other words, they send citizens to the banking cartel to “treat” them.

He concludes: “No matter how many times they embellish on television their political choices that are harmful to the people, the reality is concrete and harsh. And the need for a progressive change is now imperative, irrepressible”.