Al. Haritsis: Government policy leads to social catastrophe

“The 8.9% inflation announced by ELSTAT for March goes back to 1995. Especially for a society that comes from a multi-year crisis – fiscal, developmental, health – and has no other endurance, the consequences are very painful.” said the MP of Messinia and head of Development and Investment of SYRIZA, Alexis Haritsis, on “Real Fm”. He added: “But the monthly increase of 2.7% from February to March, one of the highest in the Eurozone, is also extremely worrying.”

“As we have been asking for many months, with successive parliamentary interventions, the problem should have been addressed at its core for a long time, as accuracy mainly affects the most basic living needs of citizens, such as energy, heating and items. nutrition “, continued Mr. Haritsis. “That is why since last September we have tabled an amendment to reduce the EFC in energy and fuel, a measure that targets the core of the problem and has already been implemented by many European countries.”

“The privatization of the supplementary insurance that ND voted for a few months ago costs an average of 1.5 billion per year in the public coffers for the next 50 years.” “It was a political choice of the government to choose this budget expenditure, instead of the equivalent reduction of the EFC which would give great relief to households and businesses”, he stressed, emphasizing: “There are finite but important budgetary possibilities. government”.

“There are no magic solutions, but there are possibilities that should have been exploited. We need realism and radicalism to face the deadlocks that Greek society sees in front of it. Every progressive force will be called to make its choices before the Greek people and decide “whether it will support a progressive government, to implement a realistic and at the same time radical program that will face all these crises. Or whether it will support the continuation of a policy that leads to social catastrophe”, concluded Al. Charitsis.