K. Skandalidis: The Budget does not concern all Greeks, not even their majority

“Unfair, anti-social, anti-development and mainly with ominous prospects for implementation”, characterized the general rapporteur of KINAL, Costas Skandalidis, the state budget of 2022, “despite the benefits of the government”.

After Mr. Skandalidis clarified that his party is voting against this year’s Budget with the exception of defense spending, he stressed that the government is trying to cover the lost ground with a policy of temporary benefits, prays that the crisis will end one day, systematically ignores the need to plan a and a development model that can withstand new crises, baptizes “reforms” patchwork policies and refuses to tackle the problems facing the economy today.

“This lack of real vision, planning and necessary initiatives is reflected in the state budget for the critical year 2022,” said Mr. Skandalidis.

Referring specifically to health expenditures, Costas Skandalidis accused the government that “while the 130 dead today and the stagnant hospitals of the country are screaming”, it not only does not offer the NSS the necessary excess required to stand on its own two feet, but it seems that in its intentions is to sell out the NSS as well. Among other weaknesses in the state budget, he blamed the government for the lack of comprehensive regional planning and the absence of environmental policy, stressing that “this is a state budget that does not meet the times.”

The general rapporteur of KINAL, at the forefront of the government’s report on “Budget of total restoration and return to normalcy”, raised the questions: how much does the trip of total restoration cost, if it concerns all Greeks, if we really return to normalcy in what kind of normalcy do we return to?

Answering these questions, he argued that while the government is bragging about the package of measures it has granted, it is proving that this benefit policy is neither the best target nor the fairest distribution. On the contrary, this policy came with a delay, with horizontal, piecemeal and temporary measures, while some had privileged treatment and access to it, said the general rapporteur of KINAL.

The worst crime of the Budget is that it does not concern all Greeks, not even the majority of them, said Mr. Skandalidis. “Others travel in luxury cabins and others do not even board the return ship to normalcy. For the unemployed, retirees, employees, those who have not had a substantial increase in their income, 7.3% of GDP growth for which “The government’s boasting has no face,” he said characteristically – adding to that reasoning, inflation, indirect taxation and price hikes, which he claimed reach 10% a week. “Greeks are paid like Balkans and bought like Europeans,” he said.

“Returning to normalcy requires structural change and reform, which a conservative government refuses to understand and undertake, refuses to look to the future and describe a resilient and difficult path that leads the country to prosperity,” he said. ΚΙΝΑΛ.

Source: AMPE