Elections and … earlier than May, A. Tsipras requested intervention in Parliament

LAST UPDATE: 14.25

“You have raised the pencils waiting for elections in May, hold elections now, in March, to save the country from your incompetence,” Alexis Tsipras asked the Government during the discussion on the question he had submitted regarding the management of the pandemic. .

Although the discussion was typical of the pandemic, the SYRIZA president spent most of his speech on the energy crisis, the shadow of developments in Ukraine and the election scenarios.

In this context, he described the Government as dangerous for “households and businesses” and reiterated his party’s firm objection: “18 countries have reduced the fuel efficiency tax and you say this will benefit those who have Cayenne.”

Styling his speech, Mr. Tsipras said, among other things:

In the last 6 months with this alarming number of casualties we have overwhelming comparisons with other EU countries. India, USA, Brazil. How is it possible that we are constantly above the European average in deaths per million inhabitants and have the audacity to say that SYRIZA is to blame? Will anyone be held accountable for this development? Will we look for the cause of the manipulation of the pandemic and the deaths in our country?

– The famous study Lytra – Tsiodra which reflects 62.5% mortality in the ICUs of our country, while in the EU it ranges from 25 to 35%. One wonders why this scary difference? Or are you interested in saying we did well with the 26,400 people who went missing?

– You do not care why you are the government of excuse. It is not your fault for the pandemic, it is global but in Greece we are champions in deaths. The same with the weather phenomena, the climate change is to blame, but in Greece the people were left blocked in central arteries.

– The same, to be precise, is not your fault but Putin, even though he came long before the war. You have decided to forcibly de-lignify, sell off PPC and networks, leave the scandalous profits of the power generators uncontrollable, but exogenous factors are to blame.

We need a government of responsibility and not of excuse and propaganda.

– Do not think that you will be able to escape for a long time from the shield provided to you by your friends in the media, with the polls of joy that even the Parliamentary Committee refuses to give the unbalanced data.

– What is the image that society, households, businesses experience? In the third week they do not have to pay the expenses and bills. Yesterday I was in the market of Kalamata. Go out and ask the citizens, there is no income, there is no turnover, bills and debts are increasing, how will they cope?

– Worst of all it is like hiding under the rug the results of your policy, your planning provides for mergers, closure of hospitals. Here the world is lost and you in your neoliberal obsession. The only plan you have for the post-transfer era is to privatize the public health system.

– No concern for the new needs and challenges posed by the pandemic, such as Primary Health Care, family doctor, community care, mental health. Only proceed with the logic of mergers, closing of hospitals.

– You are the worst government at the worst time. It is a great misfortune that you ruled during the pandemic, because in addition to being incompetent, you are also ideological. Even another government of the Right would not have done what the Mitsotakis government did with its ideological obsession.

– You say that you gave 43 billion, where did this money go? You did not give a single billion for the NSS. But you gave 6.6 billion in closed tenders and direct assignments, 1.5 billion. for the privatization of pensions. This is your policy, not to support society and anything public.

– Inflation yesterday climbed to 7.2%, a 26-year high. When Mitsotakis was celebrating in the budget that we have low inflation compared to other countries, we told him that a tsunami was coming and he told us that it would be a matter of one or two months.

– There are citizens who can not even turn on the radiator, who can not even fill the tank of their car with 2 euros of gasoline, who see a frightening increase in basic consumer products and can not get what they need. Producers who do not sow their fields because the cost of production is unbearable. What do you do about it? The traffic wardens, the commentators?

– You deny the obvious that we have been systematically asking for for months. We ask the TIF last September, instead of subsidizing the scandal of the electricity producers and PPC, to reduce the VAT on gasoline, diesel and heating, VAT on basic products. And you tell us that there is no fiscal space, while there is no escape clause.

– 18 Countries in the EU reduced the GVA on fuel. As of today, Portugal is also implementing the reduction following a decision by Antonio Costa. We are the only EU country together with Estonia that has not increased the minimum wage, you gave an increase a bun.

– And you have the audacity to say that if you did you would favor those who have Cayenne. Aren’t you ashamed to say that people do not have to drive to work?

– Watch as traffic wardens the cartels have skyrocketing profits. According to our calculations, the profits, the notoriety is over 1 billion. And instead of cracking down on scandal at the source, instead of putting a ceiling on wholesale as the Commission says, you are subsidizing scandal.

– Mr. Mitsotakis is not ashamed to say that our strategy to close the lignite plants in a hurry was absolutely correct. And that lignite is just as expensive. Lies in Parliament.

– And instead of implementing what we have been saying for so long, Mr. Mitsotakis sends a letter to the EU, a day after the Commission has released the new toolbox, urging Member States to mobilize lignite plants and put a ceiling on the internal market.

– The Commission is asking for pricing of gas and electricity prices, what we said and you told us we were ignorant. It even raises the issue of property change, ie nationalizations. And you insulted us when we said do not privatize PPC.

– On 8/3 the proposal of the Commission for a ceiling on gas and electricity prices, on 9/3 the letter of Mitsotaki.

– The Commission proposes a ceiling in the wholesale market in each Member State and Mr. Mitsotakis, while we say it for six months, proposes a ceiling in the energy node of the Dutch stock exchange. Do you know why; Because DEPA’s giants negotiated with Gazprom and managed to get 30% more expensive than the Bulgarian DEPA. Because it depended on the price by 80% with the Dutch stock exchange TTF.

– You are both atheists and ideologues, you are dangerous for the country, businesses and households, which today are threatened with a humanitarian and food crisis if you do not immediately change policy.

– You have done the same in LARCO. You rushed for privatization, but nickel today has gone from $ 14,000 a tonne to $ 81,000 a tonne. Will you continue this criminal decision?

– In recent days, Mr. Plevris and the other ministers have not even dealt with the issues that concern their ministries. They deal with where they will be candidates and how you will organize your election campaign. Because you have decided to escape. Set elections, do you want May? Do them earlier, even in March.

– Do you want to change the electoral law? Change it two or three times. Either way, you will not be able to give bonuses to the second party. Because you are already a second party.

– Save the Greek people from your arrogance and incompetence, to save what can be saved.