S. Famellos: Triple electricity bills are coming in January and the government has no plan

The government is unable to calculate the size of the increases in electricity tariffs and with its policy it feeds the accuracy, said during the discussion of the Budget in the Economic Affairs Committee of the Parliament, the special rapporteur of SYRIZA, Socrates Famellos.

“Greece is holding the ‘scepters’ of accuracy in the energy crisis. We are in the first place of the wholesale for November, 228 euros per megawatt hour. This means three times the price of electricity in the bills that will come in January and you will see it, because the government does not he has the ability to appreciate, not even the increases that are coming “, said the SYRIZA MP and stressed that the risk of energy poverty is visible, because households will be unable to pay for electricity.

SYRIZA’s special spokesman accused the government that at the same time that “the European Union, with its toolbox in October, said to reduce tax burdens”, did not accept SYRIZA’s amendment to the special tax. consumption, which would have a direct benefit for households, nor the amendment not to cut off electricity to vulnerable households. “The problem in energy is not just imported. SYRIZA does not say that. Greek industry says so, which in writing, three times has spoken about oligopoly in the energy market, lack of control and manipulation of energy prices. You are Ministers of Economy in a “a country that has a cartel in energy and its industry says so. Will you answer us about them?”, asked the special rapporteur of SYRIZA, to refer later to the privatizations:

“We have privatizations in all energy companies. HEDNO gives 49% of a body that has a definite profit, its income is 7% stable, it is a monopoly, and at the same time the investor does not seem to be obliged to make investments. three gas infrastructure companies in Greece, you give it to an individual, in which the Italian State participates but not the Greek State, with the sale of PPC we lose a development and social tool. “They say ‘we will ask PPC and DEPA infrastructure to reduce prices and make discounts’ while at the same time selling them, so that they do not have the tools to ask for consumer support”, said the SYRIZA MP.