N. Iliopoulos: Choice of the government to work for the few

“The Mitsotaki government is working for the few, looting society,” said SYRIZA-Progressive Alliance spokesman Nassos Iliopoulos, speaking last night on the Kontra Channel.

“We constantly hear from the government that the war is responsible for the accuracy, that it is an imported crisis. Then the government must explain to us why the Commission, since October, has given the reduction of the excise tax as a proposed measure in its toolbox. “Fuel consumption,” he said, adding that “this measure has already been followed by 14 countries”.

“If we reduced the EFK to the thresholds for a year, it would cost 1.5 billion euros, a perfectly manageable expense for Greece. At the same time, the privatization of auxiliary insurance costs 1.5 billion a year, something that “It shows that these are issues of choice,” he said.

He accused the government of “choosing to reduce the tax on dividends, of choosing to reduce the capital gains tax and not of reducing VAT on bread and milk”. In addition, he attributed to the government’s choices (privatization of PPC in the midst of crisis and violent de-ligation “that” in Greece, according to the latest data, energy inflation for May exceeds 60%, while in Europe it is below 40% “.

Mr. Iliopoulos accused the government of choosing in education, work, health in favor of private interests and energy “chooses to work for Mr. Stassis and the other goldenboys in PPC but also in favor of other energy providers, covering the profits their”. He said Greece has the worst relationship between fuel and wages in all of Europe, the only one with a minimum wage lower than in 2010, the fifth worst country in terms of collective agreements. “When in a series of such indicators, our country records the worst performance, then the responsibility is clear and belongs to the Mitsotakis government,” he stressed. He commented that “when prices do not fall, the government falls”, arguing that the climate of political change is reflected in the excursions of SYRIZA-Progressive Alliance and Alexis Tsipras.

Mr. Iliopoulos also pointed out that “SYRIZA submitted an amendment to the Parliament for” thousands of people who lose the social tariff, the minimum guaranteed income, lose critical benefits, because the objective values ​​have increased “, asking the people, to the extent that there is no income “Mr. Voridis rejected the amendment”, he noted. Referring to what Defense Minister Nikos Panayotopoulos said in Parliament, he stressed that “this is unprecedented, “Minister of National Defense to blame the leaks on the officers of the Armed Forces, who are in the front line.”

“Last week, Mr. Panagiotopoulos was the one who leaked to journalists about possible hybrid threats,” he added, adding that “it is really dangerous for the Minister of Defense, if he has such information, to give it to journalists, this is the last thing must do “. “The one who takes responsibility for a non-serious institutional stance is Mr. Panagiotopoulos,” he added.

Asked about the case of Iasonas Apostolopoulos, he said, among other things, that in the Greek media there seems to be an invisible “editor-in-chief”, the ND Truth team “, which” discovered a video a month late and Mr. Economou something that happened a month ago. ”

“When a government spokesman feels the need to comment on a public event that happened a month ago, he probably does not do his job,” he said. Responding to the government’s accusation of “slandering the country”, Mr. Iliopoulos stressed that “the Greek Right must understand that it is not the country, Mr. Mitsotakis and the ND faction is not the country.” He also commented that “as far as our relationship with Turkey is concerned, Greece’s weapon is international law.”

“International law is not a la carte, it protects the asylum seeker. We can not know, if we do not do an individual study of each case, whether the asylum seeker is entitled to it or not. Therefore, practices that do not respect international law “These are practices that harm the country,” he said, adding that “at the moment, Greece, under the responsibility of Mr. Mitsotakis and his government, is being controlled for these practices.”