The president of SYRIZA-Progressive Alliance, Alexis Tsipras, had a meeting today with the presidency of the Plenary Session of the Bar Associations, about the impasses faced by the citizens from electricity bills and adjustment clauseon the occasion of their initiative for legal action against the legality of the adjustment clause.
After the meeting, Mr. Tsipras made the following statement to the press:
“Unfortunately, our country is a champion in the wholesale price of electricity in Europe. And the only country in the European Union that passes on to the consumer by almost 100% the cost of skyrocketing profits and notoriety.
Today I visited the Athens Bar Association because it took an initiative, together with other bar associations, to go to court for the so-called adjustment clause. This trick that increases, doubles, triples the electricity bills to the consumer. The adjustment clause is absurd and illegal. It is a trick to pass all the costs on to the consumer and the providers and producers to have no business risk.
The outcome of this case the courts is the crucial battle for the consumer in the near future. Tomorrow we will take the initiative, submitting a legislative amendment, which will enable consumers not to pay the adjustment clause until its legality is judged in Greek courts. And we call on the government to stop whistling indifferently and all parties to support this initiative. We live in a state governed by the rule of law, in a benevolent state, and irrational and illegal practices cannot burden the citizen, to the point that households and businesses today have an existential problem. Because the clause is higher in many cases than the salary and pension.
And when households and businesses can not make ends meet, then the laws must be enforced. So we support this initiative of the DSA and other bar associations, the consumer association, EKPOIZO. “And the initiative to bring the issue to the parliament and to create a legislative framework for the protection of citizens in the near future will be the one that will enable us to escape from this terrible pressure that concerns the whole of Greek society today in relation to the huge bills.” .
Earlier, Mr. Tsipras in the meeting he had with the presidium of the Plenary Session of the Greek Bar Associations, stressed that costs and an adjustment clause that triples it “, emphasizing that” this has driven people crazy and we consider it absurd “. In support, the President of SYRIZA PS underlined that “99% of the increases, which are made artificially and create skyrocketing profits, are passed on to the consumer”, noting that “this only happens in our country”.
He added that “when the incoming bill exceeds the salary, income or pension, we are talking about a large group of our fellow citizens who do not simply have difficulties, but have exceeded their limits”, pointing out that they are “law-abiding citizens who do not “They have never left an unpaid bill for so many years, but at the moment they do not have the opportunity.” He added that if those people who can not cope with the power outage, “then we will face a critical social phenomenon.”
For this reason, Mr. Tsipras formulated the question whether, apart from being “irrational”, the adjustment clause is also “illegal”, noting that with the help of Justice, the citizens can find their right “in order to force those who have thought about it. the trick to get it back, to normalize the lives of citizens “.
Finally, in this context, he congratulated the President of the Plenary Session of the Bar Associations, Mr. Vervesos, for the initiative he took against the adjustment clause, emphasizing that “it is very important for a professional association to highlight issues that concern not only the guild but also the society”.
For his part, the President of the Plenary Session of the Bar Associations, Mr. Vervesos, stated that their decision to support vulnerable households and citizens to face the huge increase in energy tariffs is also clear and firm.
In this context, he explained that they support the collective lawsuit of EKPOIZO against the energy companies and at the same time use all legal weapons in order to support the citizens in the separate lawsuits they make, as well as that a lawsuit model is planned to be sent to lawyers across the country. to be used in the representation of citizens.
Finally, he underlined that the lawyers as professionals are also under the suffocating financial pressure from the increased tariffs that reach the equivalent of two rents.
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