Al. Tsipras: Citizens have been paying 1.5 billion to Mitsotakis for 7 months

Alexis Tsipras toured the Egaleo market this morning, during which he had the opportunity to discuss with shopkeepers and consumers the “explosive dimensions that accuracy has taken for the past seven months, the shrinking of incomes, the great reduction in market but also the necessary measures required with strong state intervention “.

In subsequent statements, the president of SYRIZA-PS noted that the citizens have been living the “Mitsotaki accuracy” for seven months now, whom he accused of tolerating energy cartels. He stressed that an urgent plan is needed to deal with the accuracy, with strong state intervention in the market, something that – as he underlined – can only be done by a progressive government.

“For seven months now we have been shouting, complaining, that there is profiteering and cartels in the energy. Mr. Mitsotakis is lying, he is tolerant of cartels and he is calling us populists,” said Mr. Tsipras. He noted that a month ago in Parliament he asked the Prime Minister to intervene “and told me that there are no super profits”, and “after the decision of the Commission and the directive to tax these super profits in all countries of the European Union, he was forced yesterday to shout that there are some profits but we do not know where we will find them “. “One and a half billion in these last seven months. This is exactly Mitsotaki that the Greek people live, the citizens, the consumers who get the electricity bills, that has led to accuracy in all the basic types of consumption, as inflation has climbed over 7% “, he noted.

“I’m very afraid,” said the SYRIZA-PS president, “that the effects of the war in Ukraine have not yet become visible in the market. remains stuck “. He stressed that the country can not proceed like this and that “we need an emergency plan, to rebuild society, to support small and medium-sized enterprises, to deal with this unprecedented wave of precision. salaries from 8,000 to 28,000 euros, but also of individuals who hoard on the back of the consumer “.

He commented that “it is obvious that such an emergency plan, Mr. Mitsotakis and his ministers, who advocate for self-regulation of the market, can not even imagine, not of course to implement” and added that “so, well, “Only a progressive government with a social sign, which aims and plans to support society with strong state intervention in the market, can face this difficult situation.” The leader of the official opposition said that “it is not only necessary to reduce the VAT on fuel, VAT on food, to increase the minimum wage to 800 euros, but now it must enter the ceiling of the wholesale price of energy, ie the retail price. to the consumer and to tax the surplus profits “. “To support society so that we can have perspective as a country and as a people,” he stressed.

Source: AMPE