G. Economou: The government is exhausting all budgetary margins that exist

“We are facing severe inflationary pressures. The fatigue of society is intense. For the last 3 years we have faced unprecedented crises. Now the global price explosion. “We quickly saw the problem and organized a management plan,” said Giannis Oikonomou, briefing the political authors, and reiterating that the government is running out of any budget available. “Greece has already provided twice as many resources as the European average,” he said, recalling the key points of the government’s intervention in the price of electricity.

The government spokesman added that the opposition appears out of place and time. “In an authentic old-fashioned manifestation of partisanship, Mr. Tsipras appears as a magician who will take a hare out of his hat for everything. He has a law and an article ready for everything. Greeks remember that with a law and an article he would tear up memoranda,” he said. completed. Mr Oikonomou said that “Mr Tsipras’s hat only hides storms and disasters” and that the government recognizes the difficulties and exhausts all budgetary resources while at the same time continuing the reforms.

He also said that the government is emphasizing the strengthening of the primary sector. “We are next to the producers and we prove it in practice”, Mr. Oikonomou underlined.

He also referred to the pandemic and the suspension of the obligation to use a mask. He said that according to the WHO, Greece is in the 12th best position in the EU of 27 in the mortality index. He said that 75% of the total population of the country was vaccinated and the ICUs more than doubled and 18,500 health workers were hired. “We accelerated the digitization of the state, we were one of the first countries to provide more than 125 million free tests, our economy had the third fastest growth rate in Europe, we were among the countries that succeeded in creating the Recovery Fund and the plan we submitted was “from the first ones that have been approved and are already being implemented”, he added.

“The pandemic could have devastated our country and our population. We have managed to do better than most EU countries. There will always be grief and sorrow for those we lost,” he said.

SOURCE: AMPE

Source: Capital

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