M. Katrinis: The conservative budget of 2022 – KINAL votes against

The head of the Parliamentary Group of the Movement for Change, Michalis Katrinis, spoke in the Plenary Session of the Parliament about the 2022 budget, where he initially stressed that in the face of health and the fight for life, there is no political cost. The only cost that can exist is in human lives, he added.

“The Movement for Change does not oppose with shouts and extremes, however, Mr. Mitsotakis and his government did not take the necessary measures at the right time. The Movement has repeatedly called for the strengthening of the NSS with ICU and staff, the inclusion of the private sector in planning, the involvement of the local government in the vaccination program, the avoidance of overcrowding in transport and schools, with effective controls of the implementation of the measures. He also clearly supported even politically difficult decisions, such as compulsory vaccinations in certain professions. The Prime Minister, however, “took the measure” and measured the political cost, in every decision or measure proposed by the scientists. “He first gave the message of relaxation, then declared the end of the pandemic, while” waving his finger “at the citizens, the young people who are not disciplined and recently to the citizens over 60, creating conditions for social automation, sharing responsibilities for the outbreak of the pandemic.” , said the head of the Parliamentary Group of the Movement for Change.

The pandemic is a field of cheap partisan confrontation between ND-SYRIZA

“The worst thing is that the government has turned, together with SYRIZA, the management of the pandemic into a field of cheap partisan confrontation. But Mr. Tsipras’s attitude is also populist, since he turns a blind eye to various groups in terms of electoral clientele. This is not opposition. The Movement for Change will not follow either ND or SYRIZA on this descent. The Movement for Change is here to demand the solutions that the citizens need. The Movement for Change is here to stop Mr. Mitsotakis playing alone. The country needs a credible opposition. The Movement for Change, PASOK, with its new leadership assumes this role.

“Mr Skertsos’s views on a ‘luxury health system’ are not personal. They express the overall logic of the government. Because the NSS created by PASOK with the seal of Andreas Papandreou and George Gennimatas, was and remains “foreign” to ND. And if the pandemic did not exist, it would have advanced its plan to privatize public health facilities. “It’s no coincidence that even within the pandemic he did everything possible to support the private health sector first.”

Conservative budget – KINAL votes against

“This is a conservative, transitional and management budget and that is why the Movement for Change is voting against it. Except of course for the defense expenses, since in such issues expediencies and ideologies are not allowed, as SYRIZA proposes. And the 2022 budget highlights the big differences we have in relation to the priorities for the country, in relation to the big question “for whom and with whom”. The choice of ND is, clearly, for the very few. “Inside or outside quotation marks” development will not reach citizens and society. In essence, a violent redesign of the structure of the Greek economy is being attempted. Small and medium businesses are driven to closure, driven to the dark side of the moon. ND’s plan is for only large companies to exist in Greece, for small businesses to be absorbed or even closed.

The 2022 budget directly affects the financially weak. That is, the companies that were closed or were under-operating. The hundreds of thousands of workers who lived for months with 534 euros. Farmers and stockbreeders who experience increases in supplies, fuel, production costs. The 350,000 long-term unemployed who were left out of government aid during the crisis. The tens of thousands of retirees who have been waiting for months and years to receive their pensions. And inflation is sure to intensify this disproportion. The financially weaker households will be even more burdened.

PASOK was slandered and insulted in an attempt at political and electoral looting. But the democratic faction is back, it is here. He returned to regain the Greece of dignity, social solidarity and progress. A Greece that militantly defends and does not negotiate its sovereign rights. The Democratic Party returned to become the alternative, progressive proposal for governance in a modern Greece. In a resilient country that can meet the challenges, with a people who are sovereign, confident and optimistic about their future. And that is why we will fight with all our strength. ”