N. Iliopoulos: The basic salary should be increased to 800 euros here and now

“Society pays the Mitsotakis government very dearly,” said SYRIZA-PS spokesman Nasos Iliopoulos on the issue of accuracy.

Speaking to “Alpha 98.9 FM”, Mr. Iliopoulos noted that the key proposal to save small and medium-sized enterprises and thousands of jobs, is the settlement and write-off of private debt born in the pandemic, noting that businesses have ” very limited “access to liquidity. “While in 2020 liquidity in banks increased by 40 billion euros, in the market fell by only 5 billion euros and in small and medium enterprises by only 2.5 billion euros,” he stressed. Mr. Iliopoulos commented that “if the cost of energy is once unbearable for a household, in a business it blows everything up” and added that “already economists from the US estimate that the accuracy in the energy sector will bother us at least for “A year and a half. But the Mitsotakis government refuses to plan strategically.”

Regarding the announcements for the increase of the minimum wage, the representative of SYRIZA accused the government that it has not taken the appropriate measures and that “when the government officials talk about an impending brave and substantial increase of the minimum wage, they actually admit that 2% “It’s not a substantial increase. We called it an increase-anecdote.” “We were told,” he added, “that the economy can not withstand growth of more than 2%. Now how can it withstand? Obviously the government is not going to increase the basic salary because it believes in labor rights, but because it is in a panic.” raised the question “why increase in May and not now, now is that thousands of families can not cope with the wave of accuracy.” He reiterated that “our realistic proposal is to increase it to 800 euros here and now”. He also pointed out the “necessity to reduce the EFCs in oil, fuel and natural gas, and to intervene in PPC’s pricing policy”.

The SYRIZA representative commented in general that the government has a common pattern in the management of accuracy, but also of the pandemic, “this pattern is the ‘where to’ yes we end ‘”. In this regard, he stated that in the discussion on the Budget, Mr. Skylakakis “told us that it is based on the basic assumption that we are ending the pandemic and government officials say that we are in the last month”. “But in the last month, we are already counting 1,098 losses and the intubation has increased,” he said.

Regarding the opening of the schools, Mr. Iliopoulos said that “we must see the connection with the schools in relation to the whole health course of the country”. “Against the government’s argument that not many classes were closed, the answer is that morbidity goes to the community, and so does Mr. Kapravelos. Typically, this week we managed to climb again to the negative top of Europe,” he said. He noted that SYRIZA says from the beginning that “schools must be opened safely, it is not a parking lot for children, that is why we are asking for special purpose permits for working parents”, to conclude that “unfortunately the government is facing society as a herd “.