The President of PASOK-Movement for Change, Nikos Androulakis, harshly criticized both the “government’s reluctance to protect household income from energy price increases” and the “SYRIZA amendment not to pay consumers adjustment clause until its legality is judged by Justice ”, in an interview with TRT.
“They show that they are unrepentant. Suppose the courts do not make a favorable decision, huge bills will come to all Greeks! Why do not we do what is in the Commission toolbox? Ceiling in the retail price. There are two pan-European tools: Some countries put Retail price ceiling – this is what Greece should do – and other countries such as those in the Iberian Peninsula, achieved an exception by setting a wholesale price ceiling of 50 euros per megawatt hour, because their dependence on natural gas is too small. 2.5 times under the dependence of Greece.
“Tsipras – Mitsotakis have the absolute responsibility for the huge dependence of the country on the natural gas that leads the tariff to a record increase compared to other countries”, Mr. Androulakis pointed out characteristically.
Populism and the client state have destroyed many of the country’s opportunities, said the President of PASOK-Movement for Change and “they must enter the time warp of history” he added.
“I am bothered by Mr. Tsipras and Mr. Mitsotakis posing false dilemmas to me. One tells us about progressive fronts. What is the progressive front? Mr. Mitsotakis speaks of realism and right reason.Is it realism to have a staff of five people in Maximou? To run a country with five friends and relatives? Realism is: I see the problem, I put it down and “I am solving it. Progress is to have in mind the most vulnerable, the people of toil, the productive Greece. These two elements are at the core of my policy,” said Mr. Androulakis.
“The dilemma is not Tsipras or Mitsotakis. The dilemma is: With two prime ministers who failed and accumulated new problems on the backs of the Greek people or with a policy of solutions, the policy of this? This is the dilemma and I ask the Greek people to build a relationship of trust “noted the President of PASOK-Movement for Change.
“To authoritarian leaders, reviewers, who do not respect the rule of law and international law, we have a common answer: Economic sanctions and we do not provide weapons as the EU, as I have personally played in the European Parliament for an arms embargo on Turkey,” Androulakis said. intensifying Turkish provocation.
Visit to Volos
The President of PASOK-Movement for Change, Nikos Androulakis, toured in the morning in the shopping center of Volos and talked with residents and shopkeepers.
Mr. Androulakis reiterated the Movement’s proposal to impose a ceiling on the retail price of electricity tomorrow morning, in order to provide a tangible solution to the huge bills paid by citizens and to protect family income. He even stifled the impatience of the Government as well as SYRIZA to adopt this proposal, which exists in the toolkit of interventions, proposed by the European Commission to the member states.
The President of PASOK-Movement for Change also visited the Volos Fire Service.
The following is the statement of the President of PASOK-Movement for Change:
Here in Volos, too, it is clear that the adventure of the energy crisis is undermining the most vulnerable households and businesses. Mr. Mitsotakis did not manage to get the Iberian exception by putting a ceiling on the wholesale price. Something that Mr. Sandeth and Mr. Costa achieved. So he must immediately pursue another policy, which is already in the toolbox of the European Commission proposals. And this is the ceiling on the retail price of energy. It is the only way, the only political decision that will stop the huge accounts, which undermine social cohesion and increase social inequalities. Ceiling at the retail price tomorrow morning. There is no other way. Everything else, like sending consumers to sue for a freeze on the adjustment clause, is a long-term adventure. Tomorrow morning a political solution with a ceiling on the retail price of energy.
Source: Capital
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