P. Skourletis: It is very likely that Mr. Mitsotakis will be elected in the beginning of the summer

The assessment that the government can be dragged into the elections as early as the summer, in an attempt to counter its declining popularity and under the weight of its failure to manage the pandemic, the accuracy and all the important issues facing the country, he made the parliamentary representative of SYRIZA – Progressive Alliance, Member of Parliament, Panos Skourletis.

In this context, Mr. Skourletis reported on:

Elections

“I think that the ND is very likely to be dragged into elections until the beginning of the summer. Keep it, to be dragged into elections. Seeing that month by month it loses percentages of half a percentage point and can not reverse this situation. “Seeing the accuracy of harvesting businesses and households, while failing in the pandemic, as in other areas of management, I believe he will look to end this situation by resorting to elections.”

“SYRIZA’s credibility and ability to return to the government will be judged by whether it will present a coherent plan of programmatic commitments, not general reports, the general reports are good, the analysis is good, but it must reach concrete commitments towards society, so that it understands what the differences are “.

Public infrastructure

“What has the pandemic case shown us? That we must have strong public health policies, because otherwise we can not deal with it. Secondly, what does the climate crisis case show us? That we must also have a plan to deal with it?” , but also conciliation so that we can reverse the destruction of the planet, not by putting the profits above the climate and the needs of the citizens, of today and the next generations on this planet.This requires strong public intervention. Doesn’t the same apply to the field of education? for job assignments here and there. There must be planning and development model. Yes, now we are talking about the Recovery Fund. So where will this money go? It’s 32 billion. ”

“In the banks, the State, where it has an increased participation in the shareholding structure, should claim the majority of the Board of Directors and pursue a policy, within the banking system, in order to shape with the volume and weight, e.g. Bank, the rules of the game? In other words, can small and medium-sized enterprises be excluded and loans go only to the few and come back as deposits? Well, this is not happening, the whole market is “dry”.

The experience with Attiki Odos confirms that networks can not be a field of profit

“There is a dimension worth remembering. When we talk about the country’s networks, whether they are water, energy or road, they must be managed by social or public bodies, they can not be a field of speculation. .

SYRIZA Conference

“A small part of the very big discussion that we will have at the conference will be about the issues of the statutory changes. The biggest part and what is mainly of interest to society, is all that we said before. What is your plan? What is your plan?”

“Most of the discussion will be about issues that concern society. Based on this logic, a party is judged as ‘open’ or ‘closed’ if it can, first of all, follow the messages of the times and be able to The dialogue that makes him communicate to the world And I ask you, in this ten-year course of his, SYRIZA was a small party, closed and a “club of discussions”, as you said? I consider what you said untenable. If it were so it would remain at the rates of 3 and 5%. Some journalists say, “but there are some who do not want to rule.” To whom do they say that? To those who ruled? Those who say that were not with SYRIZA, did not “rule” with SYRIZA, criticized him. It was in the referendum opposite, it was in the Prespa agreement opposite, so obviously we did not govern with them. We managed, a small party of the Left, making the right remarks, the right proposals, saying that the Left can govern, win twice, in 2015, the government and be today, even though we lost the last elections, the biggest party of the European Left, but also of the wider progressive faction. “So let’s not talk about a closed party.”

“An open party, but also in organizational terms. Since the 2019 elections, more than 20,000 citizens have decided to join the party. The issue is what party we want. If we want a party like the one we saw Mr. Georgantas say, to gather the people and tell them “we put you on” STAGE, we made you contractors, we gave you contracts and reinforcements, come and vote for us “, that is, a client party with an outdated logic, no we do not want that. We want the members to be informed, to submit their proposals and in all matters to contribute to the formation of positions “.

“It is a democratic achievement for there to be a dialogue and for me to appear on the radio, another executive the day after tomorrow and this concern that we have within the party, to communicate it to society and get some feedback. Why is he being blamed, is not it democracy? […] Have you seen any substantive discussion at ND conferences? We have not seen. “SYRIZA-PS is the most democratic party that exists today in Greece and we must preserve that.”

The issue is that the participation of party members will be more substantial, which should not be exhausted, as is done in other parties, in a vote every three or four years, but to see in a more substantial way how they “swim” in in society, how they become benchmarks “.