N.Iliopoulos: Mr. Mitsotakis is playing hide and seek with scandal

“Kyriakos Mitsotakis is playing hide and seek with scandal,” said SYRIZA-PS spokesman Nassos Iliopoulos, speaking to SKAI.

Criticizing the government, he referred to data from the Small Business Institute of GSEVEE to comment that “2.5 years Kyriakos Mitsotakis means that for 50% of households the income ends on the 20th of the month”. He pointed out that “when we talk about accuracy, we are also talking about income”, to emphasize that “Mitsotaki government means 3 billion cuts to retirees because the part of the 13th pension that was returned in ’19 with the SYRIZA government was abolished”.

He added that “the Mitsotakis government also means a freeze on the minimum wage” as “at the moment Greece is the only country in the eurozone that has a lower minimum than in 2010”. He added that “when in 2019 the SYRIZA government increased by 27% the basic salary for young people under 25 and 11% in total, consumption increased and state revenues increased”, emphasizing that “there is a need to increase the minimum wage here and now salary at 800 euros “. Mr. Iliopoulos also said that “today Greece has the second lowest GDP per capita in the EU member states” and that according to INE-GSEE data last January “whoever was on the basic salary lost 14% of its purchasing power due to inflation “. “Economic suffocation is no longer just about the vulnerable, but most of society,” he said, noting that “for all these reasons, today is a very important day for the strike.”

The SYRIZA representative criticized the Prime Minister that at the last Summit “he chose not to be with Spain and Portugal, but he chose to be with the scandal”. “Since October, the Commission’s toolbox has been proposing to reduce the EFC on fuel and the government refuses to do so,” he said. “If one looks at the data in the last seven months, one will see the difference between production prices and wholesale prices.” He said that “from this it is presumed that, in these 7 months, we have about 1.5 billion ‘skyrocketing’ profits in energy” and stressed that “this money must be taxed and returned to society, but also put a ceiling in energy prices “. “On the contrary,” he continued, “Mr. Mitsotakis initially denied that there were super-profits, then he remembered that there are, now he is playing hide and seek with the profits. He is doing everything he can to cover the scandal.”

Regarding the situation at PPC under the SYRIZA government, he stated that “in the period ’15 -’19, PPC reduced its borrowing by 1 billion and did not increase tariffs on consumers at all.” “Today the government says that the PPC share is doing well. But with the share, the citizens’ bills are not paid,” he said.

Speaking on Tuesday night on the online show “Economy Hour” of pagenews.gr, Mr. Iliopoulos reiterated that Greece’s dependence on Russian gas is very high and that it is currently buying 30% more expensive than Bulgaria . “Obviously there are responsibilities of the people who implemented this policy,” he told ND, adding that lignite could currently account for 30% of the energy mix, but with the violent de-ligation attempted by the Mitsotakis government, it is now participating. at 6-9% “.

Regarding the pandemic, he said that “the country has experienced a health tragedy because since mid-September, Greece is almost twice as high as the European average in losses in proportion to the population” and that “we have now managed to overcome Italy and Belgium in losses per million inhabitants “. He stressed that “at the root of the health tragedy is the political decision of ND not to support the NSS”.

Mr. Iliopoulos reiterated the “need for elections and political change”, noting that “the country can have a government with a simple proportional, progressive government” and that “from our side, we have submitted a specific program, based on which there can be dialogue with the progressive forces both politically and socially. ”

Source: AMPE