In his speech in Giannitsa, the president of PASOK – KINAL, referred to the Greek-Turkish, the elections, the issues of the economy while he also responded to the recent comment of the prime minister about change
From Giannitsa, where PASOK-KINAL executives and friends spoke yesterday evening, Nikos Androulakis responded to ND and SYRIZA, repelling their intense attacks for not revealing with whom he will cooperate after the elections.
“A joint strategy of attacks by ND and SYRIZA against the new effort made by PASOK, because they have a common interest for this faction not to raise its head. We will not do them a favor! PASOK returned dynamically as a protagonist. That is why if you watch the last few days, their arguments are identical. They both said until a few weeks ago that I was hiding and not saying who we were going with. What do they say in the last two weeks in their multiple interviews on the question of what we will do with the government of the country?
One yesterday answered bluntly that the first elections imposed by the Constitution are a step in the right direction. No, Mr. Mitsotakis, he is not a godfather. Stability from the first Sunday. Adventure is the adventure that led you to the country in two and a half months of elections. We will not put the country in this adventure. Asked who he would go with, Mr. Tsipras replied after the popular verdict: “we will see”. So the two of them have the privilege to choose after the elections who they will go with, while we will have to say from today what we will do! “Well, no, this is nonsense,” commented Mr. Androulakis.
He even commented on the reproach addressed to him by the Prime Minister about arrogance. The President of PASOK-Movement for Change underlined: “It is not arrogance to analyze the real data of the country. Arrogance is a prime minister, while he sees a people paying the third largest private spending on health, doing nothing to reverse this painful reality. Instead of feeling the problems of the people you rule, just see how you and your company will rule with a closed circuit of power in Greece. We are a big obstacle in their designs. The game is no longer for two. Let them digest it! The battle of the elections is for three, it is a battle that will be fought on equal political terms even if some systems of power and economic interests want to hide this progressive choice of realism and consistency. Regarding Mr. Mitsotakis and the lessons about arrogance. You know, we’ll hear a lot. Mr. Mitsotakis’s next step is to accuse me of being a model of family rule.
Alexis Tsipras did not escape the target of the president of PASOK-Movement for Change, with Mr. Androulakis noting that “Mr. Tsipras said that European political culture leads us to choose between the two. So since he wants lessons in European political culture, we will do it for him. European political culture means not dividing the Greek people with fake referendums that no European country has ever held. European political culture means respecting your political opponents and not devaluing them daily with an army of division and toxicity on social media. European political culture means deleting Polakis tomorrow morning because it is a sign of declining parliamentary ethos and respect for parliamentary discourse. And do not expect us not to hear Mr. Tsipras, in the midst of the many and the barrage of fire against us, accuse us of populism. We will listen to everything. That is why I call on you in this struggle, united, strong, forward, to give battle together and to overthrow a political correlation between SYRIZA and New Democracy that divides the people, does not help a logical, public, dignified dialogue and does not resolve the great national country issues “.
Nikos Androulakis said that “the river of change that started in December and will sweep a barren political system, will sweep the elite of populism, those who think only of the future of their chair and not the people.”
Regarding the escalating provocation of Turkey, Mr. Androulakis underlined that “Mr. Mitsotakis, after his meeting with Mr. Erdogan, told us that we are entering a new period in Greek-Turkish relations. “Not a few weeks have passed and we are at the worst point of Mr. Erdogan’s challenges.” He stigmatized the stance of the NATO Secretary General, noting that “we do not accept the behavior of Pontius Pilate. We do not accept the NATO Secretary General saying “find them”. But what to find? What can we find with Turkey when it does not show respect for international law? What can we talk about when it comes to demilitarizing the islands? “When it tries to create in our sovereignty, using rhetoric that divides, it undermines stability and creates a perception that we are allegedly violators of international law.”
Mr. Androulakis made special reference to the government’s inability to protect family incomes from inflation. Reduction of VAT on basic goods, ceiling on the retail price of electricity and reduction of fuel taxation are the stable package of proposals of the Movement. He responded to the government’s argument that the reduction of the EFC favors the rich, saying that “the Prime Minister does not understand that the poorest cars are owned by the poorest”.
Respond to the Minister of Development and Investment for the criteria of repayable advances, given during the pandemic. “I heard Mr. Georgiadis lying to me about small and medium-sized enterprises, when I say that a large part of the repayable advances did not go into the right hands. I have the truth to say. Some had to take them and they got them well, some others got them badly because they became plots and deposits and they are the taxes of the Greek people, Mr. Georgiadis and Mr. Mitsotakis. You share our taxes. So criteria, clear criteria for the distribution of this public money and not fiscal policies that bring the country back to the brink of collapse, “concluded Mr. Androulakis.
