Al. Tsipras: The adjustment clause is the Mitsotaki scandal clause

Alexis Tsipras discussed the deadlocks they face from the sweeping wave of energy accuracy and consequently throughout the market due to the spike in inflation in the meetings he had with businessmen, farmers and consumers during his tour in Heraklion.

“People can not stand PPC” said the owner of a dairy store to the President of SYRIZA, showing him the PPC bill, which as he said “for one month I paid 1,204 euros”.

“Apart from the walk you take at the national level to listen to the problems of the people, you also bring hope. We will all turn our backs on this hope to bring it back to Greece,” he told Mr. Tsipras, a businessman in the Heraklion market, with President of SYRIZA PS to emphasize that “we will bring hope if we all believe together that there is another way than that of the bleeding of society”. The said shopkeeper, like most during Mr. Tsipras’s tour, underlined the inability to cope with the PPC bills and the increased expenses, noting at the same time that “80% of these companies are also outside the banking system” and concluding that “The country is not changing like this, we can not stand it anymore.”

“Conditions today are dramatic for businesses as well as for society as a whole. The cost of running exceeds the possibility of having some income to be able to support your families,” Mr Tsipras said in a conversation with another shopkeeper.

Immediately after his tour in the market of Heraklion, Mr. Tsipras had a meeting with the president of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the president of the Chamber of Commerce and the president of OEVENI, who referred to the bad conditions under which, with a background, they are called maintain their businesses, calling for immediate action to make small and medium-sized enterprises viable.

After his tour in the city of Heraklion, Alexis Tsipras went to Profitis Ilias as he had the opportunity to talk to residents of the village, while in an open and mass discussion in the central square of Profitis Ilias Mr. Tsipras addressed a crowd of citizens, most of whom are in the primary sector and are said to be affected by the wave of accuracy. The “present” was also given by agro-unionists who described the dramatic -as they said- situation they are experiencing, with the accuracy that leads them away from their crops.

“I walked in the market of Heraklion, I talked to small and medium entrepreneurs. Most of them showed me their bill. How can it cost 400 euros and have an adjustment clause of 1,400 euros? This adjustment clause and I want to say it with full awareness of what I am saying. “It is a Mitsotaki clause. It is the scandal clause, the responsibility of which lies with the government that tolerates this scandal,” Mr. Tsipras stressed.

He stressed that “I do not think there was a worse time for the rural world, the world of production”, emphasizing that immediate support measures must be taken because as he stressed the effects of the war will come later, we have not seen them yet.

“This story can not go on, that is, let the cartels make a profit and the majority of society groan. Let alone, saying that there is no budgetary margin, let some people make billions and not take supportive measures such as reducing it. “excise duty on fuel, the total refund of oil for farmers and the reduction of VAT on basic foodstuffs” stressed, among others, Mr. Tsipras, adding that if there is no refund of most of the adjustment clause for agricultural tariffs , farmers, producers and stockbreeders “will not be able to stand on their own two feet”.

At the same time, Mr. Tsipras reiterated the urgent need to draw up an “emergency social assistance plan to maintain social cohesion”. He added, however, that “we know that the Mitsotakis government will not implement it”, as he said “the Mitsotakis government has risen from the interests and remains for the interests, not for the people”.

“I want to say to those who count without the hotelier, who is the Greek people, let them not be deceived by the media support and the polls of joy, because what will come to the polls, when the time of crisis comes, will be “Messages of misfortune for those who have led us here,” Tsipras said in a brief speech, calling a “progressive government with a social sign necessary.” In this context, he repeated, leaving tips to “those who identify themselves as progressive forces” that “if you do not ask for elections, then you want the Mitsotakis government to remain in power and to continue the social looting”.

“From here, from Crete, from the womb of the democratic faction that paved the way at critical moments for the country, they will realize that when they see their shadow in the liogerma, this is not their boy, and that the criticality of moments requires unity and front against the worst right-wing government that the country has known since the change of government and after “added Alexis Tsipras.

Tsipras: If you do not ask for elections, do you want the Mitsotakis government to remain in power?

Earlier, in a statement to reporters after the end of his tour of the Heraklion market, Mr. Tsipras pointed to those forces that “identify themselves as progressive”, noting that “if you do not call for elections, you want the Mitsotakis government to remain in power.” , emphasizing that “society pays for the broken things of the Mitsotakis government”.

The statement in detail:

“Terrifying increases in energy tariffs have brought households and businesses to despair. Combined with the equally large, very large increases in basic foodstuffs, fuel and rents, this despair in many cases turns into despair.

Society is paying the price for the Mitsotakis’s broken government, its options for the privatization of PPC in the midst of an energy crisis, its violent de-ligation and its tolerance of notorious profit cartels that have made more than 1.5 billion in profits in the last 8 months.

It is obvious that what the country needs now is a plan of extraordinary strengthening of the society and not of the cartels.

However, the Mitsotakis government will never accept this plan, because it has commitments with the interests.

As long as he remains hooked on the chair of power, indifferent to social looting, so much suffering will accumulate for workers, employees, farmers, freelancers.

That is why we are calling for elections, in order to find a solution with a progressive government and a social sign that will support society.

That is why we believe that no other force, which identifies itself as progressive, can turn a blind eye to this demand. If you do not ask for elections, you want the Mitsotakis government to remain in power in order to continue looting society.

“But we must put an end, a barrier to this descent and with a progressive government to support society, to give perspective with social justice and social protection.”