By Gifts Antoniou

The new package of benefits that accompanied the return from Easter respite and announced yesterday by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis confirms that the government will use all the potential and all room for the budget to seek a speedy reversal of the poll. Thus, and while an attempt is made to build a brave package of benefits for the TIF, gradually and each time there is a relevant opportunity, individual measures are announced. This happened yesterday, as the government wishes to maintain the initiative of movements, to build the agenda of political news and to form a positive momentum, even with benefits that are going to apply months later.

The government responds that the time of announcement of the measures was dedicated exclusively to the announcement of official data on the 2024 fiscal results by the Hellenic Statistical Authority and Eurostat. Of course, as the measures were announced a short time later, it is clear that their treatment had been done for several days. After all, in the government leadership and the financial staff it was well known that the surplus would be ranged.

The selection of announcements is linked to two more data:

– With the dissatisfaction caused by the announcement that there is no fiscal space for payment at the moment 13th. The government believes that retirees are a compact group of voters who in the measurements appear to support the government line and, above all, reach the ballot box and vote, not only are they pollped, as is the case with younger groups. The granting of 250 euros and this option to make every November at about 1.5 million low -income pensioners is a benefit that could be considered a substitute for the 13th pension in the context of budgetary capabilities.

– by consolidating the mortgage as one of the most serious problems for households. It is consistently high in all polls and is one of the issues that citizens express dissatisfaction with the government. The government estimates that the measure announced yesterday concerning the return of one twelfth of the roof expenditure, whether it is an annual lease or seasonal, is targeted at 80% of rental households. The government estimates, of course, that this is a benefit that will return money to public funds, as beneficiaries will be motivated to declare the real ones who pay for rent. According to data from declared rents, the average rent in the country is currently shown At 255 euros, how much it is considered to be unable to market reality. Thus, the government estimates that there is a great deal of room for “black” transactions on the rental housing, which will also bring tax revenue.

The announcement, in addition, to the strengthening of the Public Investment Program gives the message that the country’s developmental course is given. At the same time, the government is winking at the other social and professional groups, stating that these measures relate to the announcements for 2025 and that a generous framework will unfold at the TIF, which will apply to measures that will begin to apply from 2026.

Yesterday’s announcements imposed changes to the Prime Minister’s program. As the government seeks to maintain the debate focused on the new measures announced, the prime minister will visit today The Ministry of Social Cohesion and Familyfocusing on the support of families paying rent and the support they receive. The visit At the Ministry of Civil Protection In view of the start of the fire season, Mr Mitsotakis will continue his cycle of visits to ministries on Friday, with ministries, with the Ministry of Education.