PASOK-KINAL is a sharp answer to government spokesman Pavlos Marinakis about his placement for direct assignments.

‘The otherwise loyal government spokesman took four days to justify the government’s refusal to accept PASOK’s amendment, with which it enters End at the party of direct assignments“, Says the Press Office of the opposition party.

And continues PASOK:

“In his desperate attempt to justify the unjustified, Mr. Marinakis considers the Greek citizens naive and uninformed. Unfortunately for him, the numbers expose him irreparably.

What did he say to us? That PASOK refers to the multitude of public procurement, but not the amounts. First, for Mr Marinakis the fact that – according to the National Public Procurement Database – more than 3 in 4 public procurement in 2024 (as in 2023) were signed without any bidding procedure is a “negligible” event. For the Court of Auditors, however, this element is very important, and so it points to it in its government reports.

But let’s go to the amounts. Government spokesman reports that the period 2020 to 2024out of 64.2 billion euros, “just” 10.2 billion, have proceeded with the direct assignment process. We overlook the fact that it considers 10.2 billion a “small” amount, and we are in essence. The New Democracy Government from 2020 to 2024, with direct assignments, more than € 11.6 billion (taking into account the contracts with modifications), and taking into account the other assignment procedures without open tender (with closed procedures and no prior to 20 billion)!

Let the Greek people imagine How long savings would have emergedif these 20 billion euros were given with open competitionsachieving logical discounts of 20-30%. We are talking about saving 4-6 billion euros, as they sum up two ENFIA! “

As the opposition party notes:

“Mr. Marinakis also tries to persuade there is no scandalbecause the average assignment is – says – just 12,500 euros. Recall him how the government that represents:

They cut the contracts of 50,000, 80,000 or 100,000 euros into smaller pieces so they can distribute them to the “days”. That is why they increased the threshold from 20,000 to 30,000 euros. To be able to do their job easier. We do not say it, but the reports of the Court of Auditors. And if they do not even believe the Court of Auditors, let them read the Commission’s spring report, which argues that the percentage of competitions that end up in only one offer is steadily increasing from 2021 and is well above the average in the European Union (in Greece 55%, compared to 32% in the EU in 2024)!

As much as, for the emergencies On Covid, we inform the government that they have long since passed. No more excuses for the looting of public money.

Finally, the responsibility of the government and the “staff” of the state is to ensure transparency to all public bodies, as the PASOK government did with DIAGIA, which the New Democracy brutally circumvents.

But what bothers the Mitsotakis government is not the truth. It is that the whole world knows it.

And the truth is simple:

You are the government that has “legitimized” the opacity and wasting of public money.

The government that made the state of Direct assignments.

The government that wrote in its old shoes the transparency, competitionthe public interest.

Your policy is summarized in three words: arbitrariness. Discipline. Opacity.

This is what the Greek people pay.

And these will end with the political change that the place needs. ”