Responsibilities to the government for accuracy rejected the representative of SYRIZA-PS, Panos Iliopoulosin an interview with CRETE TV, saying characteristically that “it is a political choice of the government instead of protecting the citizens, to covers profiteering».
Mr. Iliopoulos referred to his study by the Institute of Small Enterprises of GSEVEE, according to which “50% of households’ income ends on the 20th of the month. “We are now back in a situation where, not only the most vulnerable, but the vast majority of citizens are facing conditions of economic suffocation.”
Responding to the government’s objections, he stated that “the situation we are facing today did not start with the war in Ukraine, Greece has a negative record in the wholesale price on electricity as early as November. “There are a number of central political choices of the Mitsotakis government that have brought us here, such as the violent de-ligation or the fact that – under the responsibility of the government – Greece is the only eurozone country that has a basic salary lower than in 2010.”
Mr. Iliopoulos reiterated that energy companies He added: “Anyone who sees the difference between retail prices and production prices understands that in the last seven months the energy companies in the country have made a profit of about 1.5 billion. “The fact that the government refuses to tax these profits, that is, it refuses a valuable revenue for the state budget, clearly means that it covers the notoriety.” He called on the government to follow the example of France, which, as he said, “chose to put a ceiling on the prices of” French “PPC, while on the contrary Mr. Mitsotakis chose in the crisis to be the only country that privatized PPC. “It’s clear that this government does not believe in public tools.”
Mr. Iliopoulos underlined “the need for reduction of fuel consumption which concerns to a large extent small and medium-sized enterprises and farmers as well as the need to reduce VAT on basic foodstuffs “. He also noted that “if the government does not take these measures now and the situation continues as it is in the coming months, then thousands of citizens will be impoverished and we risk a lot of padlocks.”
Asked about the political developments and the disgust of Kyriakos Mitsotakis that leaves open the possibility of a multi-party government, he noted: “Mr. Mitsotakis actually admitted publicly that the government has a lot of damage. The country currently needs a progressive government with a specific program framework: debt relief and write-off, strengthening the welfare state and in particular the NSS – in the pandemic the country has now outgrown Italy and Belgium in a million inhabitants – increasing minimum wage, effective treatment of accuracy. On this basis, we call on the political and social forces, so that there is progressive governance the next day. “
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