By Niki Zorba
Alexis Tsipras addressed the Parliament on the EFKA bill a while ago, from where he launched an acute attack not on the government and the prime minister in general but “on the Mitsotakis governments”, mentioning the government of Konstantinos Mitsotakis, concluding the accusation: “Neo-liberals are the worst. The Mitsotakis governments in the country had the same logic: Less state but more party state. Do you consider the state your clique?”
The president of SYRIZA, announcing that he is committed that a progressive government will abolish this bill because it is a “passport to the big meal” of the blue party army, hastened again to separate his position from the views of P. Polakis and T. Christodoulopoulou regarding the position “syrizophores” in the state, speaking again of a strong, social and meritocratic state against the “corrupt” staff state of the N.D.
In this context, he said, among other things:
– I will not tell you useless and incompetent Ms. Hatzidaki. Your policies are failing and dangerous. How happy you are with your infamous choice to hasten depigmentation without a plan.
– I will no longer say “Mitsotakis government” or “right”, but “Mitsotakis perception”. They did the same in 90-93, wanting to make the state a client of private interests.
– I wonder Mr. Hatzidaki finally after so many achievements how many cakes you will need to cut and how many floors they will have. It is not only Olympiaki, it is also PPC, HEDNO, LARCO, the supplementary insurance, now EFKA.
– You are following a neoliberal policy that has failed in conditions of normality, let alone in conditions of crisis. Persevere and continue. It is a policy that wants the state powerless and the markets uncontrollable. You want the state powerless for the citizen when he needs it, but to be present to become a client of interests. Let the funds and the blue golden boys milk it, but not be there when society needs it.
– Do you feel with all this disaster and the holocaust in energy, do you feel that you did everything well Mr. Hatzidaki at the Ministry of Energy? When you took over, you hurried to cancel the reduction of the VAT on the energy we did, you exhausted it by increasing the prices. You said that consumers will continue to pay what they paid for.
– In December 2020, you stated that “there will be no increase in electricity tariffs for consumers, there will be no increase in PPC prices or for individuals.” Do not you feel the need to explain the catastrophe that has come?
– At a time when households can not make ends meet, at a time when farmers can not stay in their fields, because with your choices you have multiplied the crisis, you do not feel bad to bring bills that create conditions of social discomfort through comparisons to the salaries of the golden boys who will receive up to 8,000 euros, while you refuse to increase the minimum to 800 euros?
– Do not you feel ashamed that you were talking about a smaller state and you are filled with blue and golden children? Epic is what you do, blue kids everywhere. You want your own state, you want less state for the citizen but more for the party executives.
– You filled the public with convertibles and blue rusfetia. The same in PPC, you abolished meritocracy and transparency, opening the door to rusfetia, abolishing ASEP.
– How many General Directorates did you find at PPC in 2019? Seven (7) How many did you make today? Fifteen (15)! Out of 27 managers in 19, today it has 105 to 70 newcomers from the “market” from you. Out of 60 assistant directors today it has 250! PPC was your shop and you are doing it again.
You have transformed from a utility company to a utility company of blue golden boys and private investors, who will gain at the expense of households, farmers, shops, who see the bills and have a stroke.
– Once you have settled the accounts with the households, your executives admire themselves for profitability.
– The CEO of PPC cleans 360,000 annually with bonuses, the deputies of ND are a sucker. You did not go to make the blue golden boys and you came to make the deputies. The country’s prime minister has a salary of 85,000 euros, four times less. Are you kidding us?
– Why should this Mr. sweat for the increases in the tariffs, when the pensioner receives 700 euros and the bill comes to 600?
– You create special positions especially for your party executives. At HEDNO eleven (11) new positions of directors for your political friends with orders from Maximos.
-Increase of salaries for Directors and General Managers who now exceed the ceiling of 4,650 euros per month. And an arbitrary party with the bonuses, a few days before the end of the year, so that the blue children of the Board get 100% of the gold bonuses, up to 50% on the gross salaries, up to 60,000 euros !.
– At the time when the employee, the retiree, the professional is groaning, you are giving bonuses to yourself and your children.
– For months, Greece has been a champion in the wholesale price of electricity in Europe.
– Society suffers but you say things are going well. Your neoliberal policies, once problematic, are now destructive and dangerous.
– How happy are you with your choice to expedite depigmentation without a plan? You are so excellent
– Really, how much have the direct assignments reached? Are there 5 billion left that were in 18 months or have they gone up?
– You said that the pension would come out in one day. SYRIZA received 367,000 outstanding pensions and left 107,000 outstanding pensions, reducing them by 70%. You had made it a flag before the elections. You took the 107,000 and you reached the 350,000 that is today.
– Remember when you said the 13th sentence crumbs? One billion euros every spring to be given to retirees. What did you do that you complained to us? You removed it. And not only this, with the help of this social network you can do more than just give in to other social security needs.
– EFKA becomes loot in the hands of a party caste. The General Managers will be elected for a three-year term, while the executives with years of service will be removed. Announcements not from ASEP but in partnership with ASEP.
– With this provision, not only EFKA is affected, but it opens a back door for the operation of the party state throughout the State. The well-known party-elected “excellent” with or without degrees, will fill the executive positions with multi-year contracts, which will bind the next government as well.
– This bill is the passport to the big feast of the blue party army and the state elites.
– We pledge not to play in this stadium. We will play in the arena of meritocracy, not in that of the party state. We are committed to transparency, accountability, meritocracy. To break the umbilical cord of the party’s connection with the state.
– You do not want a staff state but a corrupt state, selective, where you want it to exist. We will set up the social, human, democratic state, with a progressive government, which the sooner the better for the people and the place.
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-K. Hatzidakis in Al. Tsipra: You are scientists in lies about both PPC and EFKA
A. Tsipras and the 1,000 euros against the “big incomes”
Bilateral relations, Ukraine and Turkey at the meeting Al. Tsipra – Tz. Payat
Source: Capital
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