D. Tzanakopoulos: Immediate elections to remove the government dangerous to public health

The position for immediate elections to leave “the Mitsotakis government, which is dangerous for the public health and the public interests”, was underlined by the secretary of SYRIZA-Progressive Alliance, Dimitris Tzanakopoulos, speaking on r / s “Sto Kokkino 105.5”.

He noted that the government should have taken steps to “strengthen the NSS”, provide free rapid tests and prescribe PCRs – “as is the case throughout Europe despite Mr. Georgiadis’s lies” -, increase medical and nursing salaries staff, “which is affected not only in terms of its material living conditions, but also in terms of its morale”. He said that at the same time the government “should not constantly say that we are at the end of the pandemic cycle while we know that the pandemic is a condition that will accompany us for a long time to come”.

Regarding the economy and labor, he accused the government that “since taking office, it has been carrying out a plan of attack against the working classes and the popular classes” and that “it uses the pandemic crisis as an opportunity to intensify this attack”. In this context, he characterized as “outrageous the measure of Mr. Hatzidakis that the working parents who will take leave because their children became ill with coronavirus will be paid only 50% of their salary”. “It’s as if it’s their responsibility that their children get sick,” he said, adding that “this measure is taken only so as not to burden employers.”

To be precise, she said that she “has deducted 13.7% from the average salary, has reduced the purchasing power of the masses even by 15% or 20% for those with lower salaries”. He accused the government that at the same time it “insists on not substantially raising the minimum wage, which would not only directly support those working with the minimum wage, hundreds of thousands, but would also bring up benefits and the rest of the wage scale.” “Here we are dealing with a class strategy of redistributing income in favor of the few, the minimal of society,” he stressed.

Mr. Tzanakopoulos also accused the government of “shows” about the way the first Rafale were received and stressed that “the Mitsotakis government, precisely because it can not find access to the masses through the increase of income, through the reconstruction of the welfare state, tries to find access through turning to nationalism and the hard right agenda “. However, he claimed that “these performances are empty, because the real needs of the people can not be met in this way”, he stated characteristically. that here we are not dealing with a policy that wants to ensure the public interest and national defense, but with a policy that aims at ideological results and party benefits for the ND “.

Referring to the proposal of Alexis Tsipras at yesterday’s SYRIZA-PS Political Council for the election of the Central Committee and the president by the party members, he stressed that “it is a reasonable and self-evident proposal in 2022, when the conditions for a digital capitalism have been formed. “. He added that “we are not dealing with a copy of models of the central social democracy. Those who will have the right to vote and be elected will be only the members of SYRIZA-Progressive Alliance” and that “this proposal creates conditions for greater democratic participation”.

Source: AMPE