E. Ahtsioglou: The provocative Mitsotakis-Staikouras celebrations offend the citizens

“The new provocative and inappropriate celebrations of Messrs. Mitsotakis and Staikouras for the end of the enhanced surveillance regime once again insult the citizens and directly distort the truth,” says Efi Ahtsioglou in her statement.

He adds that “they insult the experiences and memory of the citizens, as the ND is the party that has the greatest political responsibilities for the bankruptcy of the country and the humanitarian crisis that shook it a few years ago”. “Not so much,” he comments, “that the citizens have forgotten, as the political bosses probably think they are trying completely unsuccessfully to rewrite history.”

SYRIZA’s finance department head PS maintains that “the ND bears this responsibility and will bear it no matter how many narratives they use”, while also noting that “no matter how many lies they use cannot change the fact that the end of the enhanced surveillance regime was predetermined for this summer as early as the summer of 2018, with the country’s exit from the SYRIZA governance memoranda and the decision on debt settlement”.

In addition, he comments that the government’s “celebrations” “but also insult the current state of Greek society, to which the politically responsible have again led it with their choices”. In particular, he states that with these choices: “They increase poverty, social exclusion and inequalities. They cover and strengthen the party of energy cartels at the expense of households and small and medium enterprises. They lead to explosive inflation with decades of records and uncontrollable accuracy that sweeps away the income of citizens. They keep the minimum wage stuck at pre-2010 levels while refusing to cut key taxes on fuel and food. They drain the income of the citizens by collecting excess tax revenue by exploiting the extreme appreciations. They fail to meet the absorption targets of the Recovery Fund and exclude small and medium-sized enterprises from it.”

Finally, Mrs. Ahtsioglou argues that “the Mitsotakis government is the government of social plunder, surveillance and authoritarianism” and that “its immediate removal is the basic and necessary condition for democracy and society to breathe”.