The last year of the current government will be full of reforms, assured the Minister of State ‘Akis Skertsos, from his podium 7th Delphi Economic Forum.
In particular, in the conversation he had with the journalist Michalis Tsintsini, he spoke about “Four major reforms planned in the near future”:
* The first concerns higher education, “has already been presented to the Council of Ministers and includes a very positive agenda,” he said.
* The second reform concerns justice, which “hurts in the issue of its speed of delivery, not in quality”. He cited, as an example of change – he described it as a “catalyst” – the way judges are promoted: “today the performance of the judge is not connected, the speed with which he makes decisions with his promotion. This is included in the Code of Courts that has been presented to the Council of Ministers and will be voted in the Parliament in the immediate future “.
* Third reform, the field of health: “we will see a radical reform of Primary Health, which unfortunately in our country is non-existent. We will also go to the Secondary Health, we will also go to a new map “, he stressed, clarifying that” we will see if we will be able to catch up within the next year for the Secondary Health “. There are, however, the commitments that the country has undertaken in the context of Greece 2.0., He added.
However, at this point, he made a general remark: “in the past, we built hospitals, courts and universities according to the local needs and the demands of the deputies”.
* Fourth reform, in the labor market: “we go and change the way OAED operates, in practice today it is an organization of benefits. Services are not provided by OAED to bring them (the unemployed) in contact with the labor market, with companies, it does not train them properly for the real needs of businesses and they remain unemployed or inactive, long-term unemployed. “This is not the job of an employment agency.”
For energy, underlined the position of the government that it moved before the European Union, “since last September we have taken measures”. He clarified that “the shift to lignite is temporary, it is realistically necessary, as we will have to look for other resources to replace natural gas.” However, he continued, in no case does the national energy plan submitted and approved by the European Commission for 2028 and 2030 change, the environmental objectives do not change.
In the light of the fact that lignite is economically unprofitable and environmentally harmful, he responded to the criticism received by the government, noting that “anyone in the opposition who formulates the myth of cheap or pure lignite is lying to society.”
“There is no question of the adequacy of the system,” he said, referring to the ongoing European debate, with some countries agreeing with the Greek proposal and asking for intervention at the source of the problem, which is the distorted functioning of the international market. gas prices. “It simply came to our notice then. “It would be an intervention in the markets, but under exceptional circumstances we must also intervene in the markets because they do not work normally”, is the position he expressed.
Regarding the support measures of the citizens, he stated that “the interventions that have been made, aim precisely at the support of the most vulnerable, and of the small and medium enterprises that suffer from the very high tariffs and of the vulnerable households”. At this point, in fact, he called on the leader of the official opposition, Alexis Tsipras, to say “what consumption, how many kilowatt hours he consumes and pays for expensive electricity. “We all need to enter into a more responsible consumption logic,” he said.
On the issue of how and by which parties the country will be governed, finally, the Minister of State said that “the goal is stability, predictability, but at the same time we can not have Frankenstein politicians in governments. Stability must be accompanied by programmatic convergence. In order for co-operative governments to exist, they must have agreed on a program, on some basic political aspirations and goals. “I do not see such convergence with the opposition at the moment,” he said, citing the example of the changes the government is bringing to universities, changes that were opposed by both SYRIZA – Progressive Alliance and the Movement for Change, as he observed.
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