N. Iliopoulos: The government continues to underestimate the problems faced by society

“The Mitsotakis government continues to underestimate the problems facing Greek society on all fronts,” said SYRIZA-PS spokesman Nassos Iliopoulos, referring to both the pandemic front and the accuracy front in an interview with Flash. Thessaloniki 99.4 FM.

“In 2021 they talked about the last mile of the pandemic and we reached almost 16,000 losses. This year they talked about the last month and January proves to be the deadliest month, but ND continues to refuse to take measures to strengthen the NSS,” he said. The party’s spokesman, commenting that “at the same time accuracy is galloping and the ND continues not to make serious public interventions, because it simply does not believe in public tools.”

“At the end of September, Mr. Skrekas told us that the increase in electricity will be 2-3 euros, and not only is it much more, but at the same time the government is selling out PPC,” he said. “We need immediate intervention in PPC’s tariff policy “The government should not use citizens’ money to boost the profits of energy companies. It needs an immediate reduction in oil, fuel and gas EFCs, as provided for in the Commission’s toolbox.”

N. Iliopoulos also stressed that “an immediate increase in the minimum wage is required, as we are the only country with a lower minimum wage compared to 2010” when at the same time “in two and a half years of Mitsotakis rule, retirees have suffered cuts of 2.5 billion. euro”. “There is still a need for immediate settlement and write-off of pandemic debt,” he said.

In the meantime, referring to the murder of 19-year-old Alkis in Thessaloniki, he spoke about a case that concerns the whole country. “When the competent minister speaks exclusively about hooliganism, he forgets that the action of extreme right and neo-Nazi elements seems to be involved in the murder”, which according to the indications are also involved “in the attack on EPAL Thessaloniki”, he said characteristically and added: “Unfortunately the government tried to “keep equal distances between the neo-Nazis and the democratic world facing each other.”

Source: Capital

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