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SYRIZA: A. Tsipras talks about ‘dividend with loans’ and revision of budget targets

By Niki Zorba

Just three days before, on Friday, an internal party quarrel broke out in SYRIZA. It went a little over the “fine” of the Syriza news because the “two sides” do not irritate the journalistic reflections in the way that Pavlos Polakis or Nikos Karanikas do.

On the contrary, it concerns the most “initiated” in the interior of Koumoundourou: THE Dimitris Liakos (economist, former deputy minister – responsible for the negotiations with the troika on SYRIZA and one of the closest advisers on the finances of Alexis Tsipras) caused his “month” George Tsipras, cousin of the former prime minister and now if. Chief of Defense, and to such an extent that he likened him to V. Seibel, showing him the way out of Koumoundourou.

What brought all this “evil”? An article by Mr. Liakos, in which he argued that the distribution of dividends with “loans” is the problem that did not become a lesson in the political system after the bankruptcy. He called on the Prime Minister to repeat the same pattern with the granting of the extraordinary allowances he announced, while he also spoke about decisions that weaken our position in the Stability Pact.

It should be noted that George Tsipras belongs to the hard core of the “presidents” (Polaki, Pappas, etc.) which is (permanently) in fierce opposition to the Tsipras financial staff (and especially the former YPOIK, Ev. Tsakalotos).

In the question of Capital.gr on the same day to associates of A. Tsipras if the head of the Defense Department “echoes” the views of the president of SYRIZA, the answer was categorical: “Of course not”.

Dividend on loans

Confirmation came through the lips Alexis Tsipras on Saturday morning during the greeting at the General Assembly of the Central Union of Chambers of Greece, where he criticized the Government for a social dividend with “loans because the deficit is at 7%” while calling for the revision of the medium-term budget targets, he said: “If this is a national target, “We all put our backs together on this claim that will concern the possibility in the near future to have substantial benefits and support for the weak and small and medium-sized businesses.”

Regarding them, A. Tsipras said in this regard that:

1. The difference is not that in ’16, ’17, ’18 SYRIZA gave three times a social dividend than what ND gives today and that then characterized it as ‘crumbs’, but that SYRIZA gave a social dividend from the overperformance of the Greek economy, “while today the government gives a social dividend from loans because the deficit is at 7%”. “The deficit is 7% and the goal that the government has committed to the partners is to reach – in a magical way – 1% in 2022 and a surplus of 2% in 2023.” “We are talking about a 9% fiscal adjustment over the next two years,” he said. “The commitment is to reduce the deficit by 11 billion euros by the end of 2022,” he said. to support businesses and their demands, but also the weak government.

2. The country must immediately demand a review of these objectives. “We can not go with these goals and we can not fool the society that supposedly this ‘growth boom’ will be able to meet the unprecedented commitment for a fiscal adjustment of 9 points in two years”, he stressed, to add: “If This is a national goal, to put all of us together in this claim that will concern the possibility in the near future to have substantial benefits and support for the weak and small and medium-sized enterprises “, such as substantial electricity financing, levels provided by the Commission during the ongoing energy crisis, pandemic debt relief, etc.

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Source From: Capital

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