N. Iliopoulos: An urgent need for political change

“Our country has paid and is paying a very high price for the Mitsotakis government. It also pays for the pandemic when we are twice above the European average in the losses of our fellow human beings in proportion to the population. “lower minimum wage compared to 2010. In this sense, the request for political change remains open and urgent,” said the SYRIZA-PS spokesman. Nassos Iliopoulos, speaking on Thursday night on Atlas TV.

“The Mitsotakis government is to blame for the health tragedy that Greece is experiencing because it never believed in the public health system. It continues to cultivate complacency. When we are in the 4th and 5th wave, twice above the EU average in “We are not talking about failure but about political choice. Let me remind you that we paid in 2021 with 15,952 losses in the last mile of Mr. Mitsotakis. And we are already counting 1,576 losses in January”, he stressed, while estimating that the government is planning new cuts in NSS “Mr. Mitsotakis has already spoken about the closure of regional hospitals. Mr. Plevris has spoken about a new health map. The Pentelis Children’s Hospital has already gone out of service to become a vaccination center. And this is because the government chose not to strengthen the primary health care whose job is to vaccinate, just to give clientele to private clinics. ”

On the issue of accuracy, he said that “the government does not make radical interventions not because it respects the money of taxpayers, but because it has again underestimated the problem – after all, it has already made 5 billion euros in direct assignments.” “We remember that from the TIF, Mr. Mitsotakis had described the problem of accuracy as temporary, saying that it would occupy us until Christmas, and had announced a cost of 150 million euros for electricity. We have been saying since then that it will bother us for at least 9 months. “and that measures of more than 1 billion euros are needed. And already the latest analyzes speak of a condition that will remain for up to 2 years”, stressed N. Iliopoulos.

He underlined the immediate measures proposed by SYRIZA-PS. to address the accuracy: “To raise the minimum wage to 800 euros here and now. Now people need the increase, not in May. Still, they need immediate intervention in the PPC pricing policy. Unfortunately in Greece with our money they benefit “In addition, the immediate reduction of NPVs in gas, oil and fuel. And finally, the settlement and write-off of a significant part of the pandemic debt so that thousands of businesses and the self-employed can breathe. In such an emergency, emergency measures are required.”