Alexis Tsipras asked Kyriakos Mitsotakis to call elections

By Niki Zorba

Alexis Tsipras demanded the resignation of Kyriakos Mitsotakis and the announcement of elections in his speech on the budget, launching a full-frontal attack on the Prime Minister and the Government.

In this context he said about:

Mitsotaki

Large listed companies do show improvements compared to small and medium-sized ones. Inequality is widening.

Whether you like it or not, you will face reality. You owe answers. The country is living a tragedy, why are you indifferent to the NSS? Why did you lie one or two or three times that the pandemic is over? that it is a pandemic of the unvaccinated?

Because you lied implying that it is the same for someone to be intubated inside and outside the ICU. and that you had no evidence. While you had and in fact not a random research but of your scientific advisor.

Even yesterday you said that you did not know about the study and now you are looking for who will be charged for receiving it. Didn’t you say that Mr. Tsiodras informs you three times a week? What do you want to tell us that he did not tell you about the findings of the study? Didn’t he tell you? If you did not know them you would have to give up dangerous negligence in the midst of a pandemic but if you did know and ignore them you would have to give up political cynicism.

It’s absolutely certain that you knew but you did not want to spoil the narrative of supposed success. That you succeeded. Your political responsibilities are criminal, but even more criminal is the lie that accompanies them.

What do you measure now, Ms. Mitsotaki? In any EU country if a prime minister had committed such an atrocity he could not stand if he did not go out immediately to apologize. We have an obligation: Can anyone expect anything better from you and your government? There is no hope that you will change.

All the opposition turned their backs, we made proposals. Today, almost 2 years after that, for the very reasons that we did it right then, we have a duty not to let you continue. Never before in the country has there been such corruption, as the late F. Gennimata rightly said from this step, talking about Maximou SA.

With what reliability will you give the battle for the 5th wave that is coming? to support society and workers. You have the opportunity today, to stand on the podium and behave honestly and give way to the impasse. Call elections

Pandemic and Accuracy

Since the European Commission did not ask you to do so, why do you do it? You do not care about the need to support health, workers, welfare state.

you present a budget that falsely assumes that the pandemic is over. What world do you live in? ignores the judgment of accuracy. It can only be virtual.

The budget provides 0 expenditure on support for households and no support for employees and small and medium-sized enterprises.

Why not adopt our proposal to write off part of the pandemic debt for households and businesses? There will be neither budgetary costs nor moral hazard.

Do the same with the employees. Why not increase the minimum wage? the only countries where the minimum wage did not increase in the EU were Estonia and Greece. Why; Because you have commitments with big interests and they want fixed salaries: The big companies, the platforms, the banks, the ones you deal with.

The progressive government’s first bill will be to raise the minimum wage to 800 euros and write off part of the pandemic debt.

Health

Are 820 million cuts in health spending cut to 736 million in emergency funds? Do you plan to subsidize private care tomorrow?

You hand over the public hospitals to us in ’15 in absolute bankruptcy and you have the audacity to point the finger at us. and even though we were fighting to get the country out of bankruptcy, we delivered surplus hospitals to you.

Arms race

The defense budget returns to the same levels as 2009, the year of bankruptcy. Do we pay the most expensive price in all of NATO? What is this; Nobody said not to spend on defense. But this is a reckless waste and even without a plan.

You give the feeling that you have not learned any lessons about how we got to the crisis and that you want all the purchases of the decade to be made on your days.