“Just a few days after the announcements of the happy Mr. Mitsotakis, for an 8% reduction in prices in over 2000 supermarket codes, the government’s communication mockery is revealed in all its glory, with the relevant reports that identify it multiplying day by day”, comments the Press Office of SYRIZA-Progressive Alliance.

And he adds: “Consumers are discovering on the supermarket shelves that the Mitsotakis government remains the government of liars and unbearable accuracy.

The 2,000 “essential” item codes correspond mainly to products of secondary importance, food remains very expensive, with meat becoming a luxury item, products are included in the “reduction” after first being repriced, so that their final price is higher than before. And the Ministry of Development’s control over all these unacceptable things is, of course, non-existent, under the responsibility of Mr. Theodorikakos.

This is the reduction the government is touting, at a time when price increases in basic items and food continue.

Real household disposable income has fallen by around 7% over the past two years, according to Bank of England estimates. 14% of the country’s population was faced with severe material and social deprivation, according to Eurostat. The purchasing power of Greeks is decreasing more and more.

The government continues its policy of monstrous surpluses, stubbornly refuses to hit the nail on the head with radical measures and reductions in VAT and excise duty, refuses to tackle profiteering and insists on propping up the banking, energy and big food cartels.

Every day the need for a progressive way out, for a Progressive Greece, which can be claimed and achieved by the leftist and progressive forces with the help of the social majority, is becoming more and more apparent.