Ch. Kastanidis: We need a new ideological identity

“There is a need to recognize each other ideologically and politically, we need a new ideological identity from which people can understand what to expect from us, what it means to be a representative of the ideas of democratic socialism in the 21st century,” he said from Rethymno Haris Kastanidis, candidate for president of KINAL in the internal party elections that will be held on December 5.

Mr. Kastanidis met with the Deputy Regional Governor of Rethymno Maria Lioni and the Mayor George Marinakis and discussed with them political developments and issues of KINAL. As he said, for many years all over the world and in recent years in Greece “neoliberal ideas with the apotheosis of the principle of market self-regulation, have created huge inequalities of wealth and poverty and the ideas of social justice, social solidarity are beginning to become relevant again , a democracy that is not ossified, is deep in its functioning with the people present and not absent. and in the conservative and thus to know the identity, political and ideological, of PASOK, so that the people know what they will expect from us now, as well as what they expected from us in the past and what happened, that is, the good in their life. is the effort we have to make, this is a new declaration of principles which in my view must have the same historical significance with the declaration of 3 September “.

Mr. Kastanidis was at the Labor Center of Rethymnon, talked to citizens, friends and members of the party, and spoke about the needs of the citizens of the middle classes and small and medium enterprises. “Oil prices have been high for four weeks now, the Greek statistical service has warned that a large part of Greek households can not pay 395 euros per month for heating and electricity, and while the European Commission has already “With its instruction, the Greek government recommends that the excise tax be reduced. The New Democracy government pretends that it does not understand and does not reduce the excise tax, which would greatly facilitate the poor and middle incomes in view of the needs in the winter.” Mr. Kastanidis appealed to the government to reduce the excise tax to help poor and medium-sized households, as well as small and medium-sized enterprises.

Speaking about the Western Balkans, he noted that “there are destabilization processes in the Western Balkans, the Zaef government has fallen in Skopje, the nationalist VMRO is rising rapidly” and “this means that the reshuffle in the internal life of Skopje will bring serious “In Bosnia-Herzegovina we have incredible confrontations that can even lead to the division of the country and we have the same tensions in Kosovo,” said Mr. Kastanidis, adding: “Crete is a little far from the north. our borders, but it is important for me to emphasize from here, from Crete, that these developments in the Balkans are likely to affect the interests of our country “. He even called on the Prime Minister and the Foreign Minister to convene the Foreign Policy and Security Council, to hold a joint meeting of the political parties and to “reach a national line to deal with the negative developments in the Western Balkans, before we are faced with any it will be difficult to deal with later “.

Regarding his decision to claim the leadership of the Movement for Change, Haris Kastanidis stressed, among other things: “Now is our chance to make the country’s democratic faction great again, not because we love it, but because the country and the Greeks have historically proved to have progressed and prospered during PASOK’s rule.” He stressed the need for national reconciliation and finding alliances, noting, however, that “neither Mr. Mitsotakis nor Mr. Tsipras” will do so, and that is why it is “very important for the Greek people to understand how important it is to reorganize.” the democratic faction and this will be helped by the mass participation in the elections, December 5 and 12 “.

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