“To keep the water under public control and to remain cheap,” said SYRIZA-PS President Socrates Famellos during his meeting with the President of the Municipal Water Company (EDEA), George Marinakis and with members of the Bureau and Bureau, He added that “in recent years there has been a clear and organized attack on their municipal and public nature by the government. DEYA ».

Socrates Famellos expressed “SYRIZA’s absolute opposition to the draft law of the government in creating a regulatory authority for water and waste”.

“It is not negotiable,” Mr Famellos said, explaining: “We have many times clearly placed in your assemblies, but also in Parliament, both I and the SYRIZA-PSA executives and the creation of the regulatory authority received. Water and waste responsibilities. We believe that the expansion of the old RAE is an unconstitutional arrangement to include water and waste management. This is yet another attempt by Mr Mitsotakis to open a window of privatization of water management, as he has done many times and has found society, as well as the Council of State. “

“The government is responsible for leaving the bankruptcy many DEYA from the application of the electricity adjustment clause in August 2021, long before the energy Ukrainian crisis,” he said.

He then accused the government of “responsible and why it has not supported DEYA with staffing and policies that we had started by putting the DEYA union as a partner in public initiatives in the period 2015-2019. Now taking advantage of the government, the problems it itself creates in self -government, it wants to blackmail it so that they can unite DEYA with the ultimate goal of privatizing functions. “

For his part, Union President George Marinakis, on the government’s legislative plans, noted that “instead of attempting reform, we have deregulation”, adding that they “weaken the DEYAs, create conditions for their dissolution and create conditions to gather the public work. Monopoly in the hands of EYDAP. “

EDEAA was attended by the Mayor of Chania and Vice President of EDEA Panagiotis Simandirakis, DEYA President Phaistos Manolis Orfanoudakis, DEYA President Volvis Christos Gouadakis, Director General .

SYRIZA – MS attended the meeting by PG member Costas Zachariadis, a member of the CC and coordinator of the Department of Self -Government Theodoris Gotsopoulos and the MP of Aitoloakarnania and the Department of Environment & Energy.