A call for the participation of the citizens in the ballot box for the election of the president, which “will give a message of strengthening SYRIZA-PS and at the same time a message of political change”, “sending the bill to Mr. Mitsotakis”, sent the Alexis Tsipras speaking on the radio station “Zarpa Radio” as part of his tour in Crete.
He said that the elections should have been done a long time ago as “ND and Mr. Mitsotakis were elected with a program and promise for perspective and prosperity for the middle class and for the past three years the vast majority of the middle class is going through more difficult times than ever”. He noted that “we are at a turning point”, adding that he believes that the majority of citizens are in a progressive direction, to emphasize that as soon as there are political developments the conditions can be formed “to hold the slide for the next day”. He stressed that he calls for elections as soon as possible because he believes that “the difficult task of getting the snake out of the hole will come to us again”. He claimed that SYRIZA is now justified for the period ’15 -’19, “seeing and comparing the people, how with the troika over your head you managed to get the country out of the vortex supporting the weakest and today how they, without a troika , memoranda and fiscal restrictions, have plundered public wealth again. ” “Through difficulties we have restored the country to positive growth rates, we have settled the debt, we have taken the country out of the memoranda and we have left a deposit of 37 billion in the public coffers,” he said.
Mr Tsipras said: “We have the worst government at the worst time for the country. The looting of public wealth has resumed, the rioting in public coffers has resumed, we have filled golden boys and privatizations of public wealth in critical areas, such as energy, and this is what the citizen now pays for with this financial bleeding through the accounts and of accuracy “.
He noted that “the Mitsotaki government continues the looting from where it left off in ’15”, while accusing it of always saying that someone else is to blame. However, he continued, “our country has been the most expensive in the wholesale price in Europe since September and, 100% of the wholesale price is passed on to the consumer with the robbery adjustment clause”. He said that the Prime Minister, while saying that the war in Ukraine was to blame, came out with his speeches to say that he would give some retrospectives, for months related to the period before the start of the war. At the same time, he said that these “prove to be a fraud, which will appear in the accounts of the citizens”. “They will wait for 600 arias and will not find it. “To tell us how it is possible to give 280 million to 4.2 million consumers, and to talk about 600 ari or even up to 600”, he commented.
Mr. Tsipras claimed that “the responsibility for the difficulties experienced by the average Greek citizen has a name: Kyriakos Mitsotakis” and that “if there was no absolute monophony in the media, this government could not stand.”
He noted that “the key is not to water money trees, but to cut the thorn trees. When we have a notorious profit and skyrocketing profits in the field of energy production that we have been complaining about for a year now and they allegedly discovered it a month ago and are trying to cover it up, it is 1.5 billion and they present 600-700 million to tax in the end a hole in the water, here there is a tolerance for notoriety, the protagonist in this notoriety is PPC “. He said that the day after the elections, Mr. Mitsotakis appointed as head a blue golden boy who receives 360,000 a year and gives a bonus of 16 million to the Board and his only goal is the profitability of the company and not the public benefit. “That is, to have a high share on the board to receive dividends for those shareholders who bought 17% of PPC in September shortly before the start of this rally in citizens’ tariffs. We have a trick led by PPC “. He stressed that “when some people win while the vast majority of society is being looted, there is a political responsibility”.
Speaking about the internal party process on Sunday, he pointed out that while in other parties elections have been held to elect a president, it is the first time that a nationwide process is held to vote 300 members of the Central Committee. He added that there are about 2,000 members of election commissions and 1,000 polling stations will be announced across the country so that citizens in any part of the country can vote.
“For us the bar is very high either way, because we want to have more than 2 million voters in the ballot box of the national elections, that is our bar,” he stressed. He added that “in our internal party processes we can not set the bar because it is an unprecedented process for us”, noting that “in any case it is certain that SYRIZA will come out strengthened”, that “it is a celebration of democracy and participation and as many then better “. He pointed out that it will be a message in relation to the political situation, as “the participation and strengthening of a party gives a dynamic victory for the national elections that will not be late.” “I have the feeling that even the most skeptics understand that this government can not make it to 4 years,” he said. Asked if “will he make it in the winter?”, He commented: “Let’s see how he will make it in the summer first and go to the winter after … The issue is that households and businesses do not come out”.
Mr. Tsipras commented that until yesterday he saw that “Mr. Mitsotakis was calm inside his party”, but “he held a conference that instead of being a fiesta was a fiasco”. “Mr. Samaras came out and actually spoke louder than he speaks and the opposition against Mr. Mitsotakis, denounced him for his choices for energy,” he said. He estimated that “obviously all this has to do with the demands inside and the next day, but it is interesting that now in ND they understand that Mr. Mitsotakis is a prime minister on the run and are already starting to shape the framework for the next day. This is how I perceive Samaras’s presence at the ND congress “. He also commented that “Mr. Mitsotakis is trying to make a rhetorical shift in the Center, mainly with executives from PASOK and Potamio, but in practice the core of his policy has not changed and those who are in command are” orphans ”by Karatzaferis, Ad. Georgiadis Mr. Voridis, with a rhetoric that is extremely conservative and nationalistic many times over “.
Asked if he would run again in Heraklion, he said “I can not promise that, but we have not yet made our decisions.” He stated that the ballot papers of SYRIZA will be renewed and dynamic and that it is a process that “we will bring forward immediately after the election of the new Central Committee, in the next period, to prepare as best we can.”
Mr. Tsipras blamed the government for BOAK and other major projects, for delays and a greater burden on public funds compared to the corresponding plans of the SYRIZA government.
Greek-Turkish
Asked about the Greek-Turkish issue, Mr. Tsipras noted that the minimum that the Greek Prime Minister has to do in the US is to explicitly and categorically ask the US not to give new F-16 aircraft (to Turkey), not to re-equip “changing the balance in the Aegean, Turkey and Turkish President Erdogan.” “I believe that Greece also has weapons to achieve this. Because at this time they can not ask Greece to consent to NATO in order for the Nordic countries to join, that is, to create security guarantees for the Nordic countries against Russia and Russian aggression and for Greece not to provide security guarantees against Russia at the same time. “of Turkey and Turkish aggression,” he said.
The president of SYRIZA-PS commented in particular that “it is not only that we have violations by Turkey. “For about a year we have been under the impression that the government and the mainstream media have argued that Turkey is an isolated country, and today we see a Turkey that is not only not isolated but has been upgraded as the most important ally of the United States.” He added that “Erdogan is playing the role of a” peacemaker “- be careful – the one who has held the northern part of Cyprus for 48 years is a” peacemaker “and a mediator for peace in Ukraine. And we, who for 48 years have been defending international law, legitimacy, peace, stability, are just a country that sends weapons to Urkania and declares left and right that it is the closest ally of the United States, but the United States does not want to give importance “.
“Asking for a photo at the White House is not a serious attitude of the prime minister,” he said, noting that the prime minister “comes and signs a week before he goes to see Biden, the renewal of military facilities, the contracts, which he has not done.” no other Greek prime minister “. “Even Konstantinos Mitsotakis, when he was indeed a close friend of Bush and the Soviet Union was collapsing, did not renew Souda indefinitely,” he stressed. He noted that “these are your basic sovereign rights, that the government should be able to renegotiate for the benefit of the people depending on the situation” and “Mr. Mitsotakis comes and says indefinitely, in 5 years if not denounced by the agreement that the Greek side brings us, will be for life “. “These do not happen even in banana countries, protectorates,” he commented.
Mr. Tsipras asked the question: “So the moment we go to the center, we give weapons to Ukraine, we renew indefinitely, we put Alexandroupolis in the game, go ahead and do all this, what are the rewards?” A photograph;”. He underlined that “instead of the exchange being the security guarantees for Greece and Cyprus from the USA, from our allies against Turkey, here we see the opposite happening, America is preparing to give F-16 to Turkey. “We are sending weapons to Ukraine and America is sending new planes to fly over the Greek islands – and they did not fly over the Greek islands by accident, here we had overflights, here sovereignty is being questioned.”
The former prime minister said that “we had a multidimensional foreign policy. “We knew and we know that we are a NATO and EU country, but we are not an easy and given ally, we are an ally who gives when he takes.” “We”, he continued, “claimed and took the strategic relationship with the USA, the strategic dialogue, the 3 + 1, the strategic cooperation of Greece Cyprus with Egypt and Israel, under the blessings of the USA at that time to become EastMed who today is in the trash “.
Finally, Mr. Tsipras asked “the citizens to judge which government followed a national strategy and which today is a given and surrendered and whether or not this poses risks to our national interests.”
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