In an interview with RealNews and referring to energy crisis and the wave of accuracy the president of PASOK-Movement for Change Nikos Androulakis criticizes the government for “profiting at the expense of the weakest by keeping unreasonably high VAT rates on commodities”.
“While even the European Commission has proposed the extraordinary taxation of corporate profits, and many countries such as Spain and Italy have already implemented it or are showing losses because the state has imposed a ceiling on the retail price as in France, in Greece so far the costs of the crisis have pay only citizens. The government of New Democracy has just now discovered the need for extraordinary taxation of the super profits, while it continues to speculate at the expense of the weakest by keeping unreasonably high VAT rates on basic products “, notes Mr. Androulakis.
Further, noting that “from 2000 to 2020 our country increased by almost 20% its dependence on imported energy products” said that he considers “a very big mistake of the Mitsotakis government that chose the violent and unplanned closure of lignite plants, committing us in the imported natural gas instead of proceeding to a smoother de-ligation, in order to pass faster and without great dependencies in the Renewable energy sourcesHe added: “The EU must pursue a policy of energy autonomy, which will also strengthen its energy security.”
THE chairman of PASOK-KINAL He referred to the priorities of the modern Social Democracy, which – as he said – has a very critical regulatory and redistributive role to play. “In conditions of demographic aging, it is called to face the intergenerational inequality that eventually develops into class inequality. To fight the phenomenon of hereditary power in politics, society and the economy. “The right to prosperity and progress cannot be a hereditary privilege for the few,” he said, stressing the need for a serious housing policy that will facilitate young couples, a new EKAS for low-income retirees and an increase in the minimum wage to 751 euros.
Asked if he “sees” direct elections, states that his party is ready “whenever they are done, with a modern and realistic Social Democratic program, which will answer the problems of the citizens and with renewed and strengthened ballots all over the country”.
Regarding possible post-election cooperation, Mr. Androulakis points out that “the Democratic Party is creation party and no protest“And adds:” We have as goal to rule and to implement our program in the interest of the Greek people, to make the Democratic Party a protagonist again. Our bet is to become the most creative political force in the country. In this new course I attach great importance to our daily contact with society and especially young people, many of whom have been disappointed by politics. THE reliability and our modern social democratic program will seal a new relationship of trust, to end political opportunism, demagogy and the client state. For us, then, stability is not the return to a problematic past but the charting of a new course with a view to the future “.
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