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SYRIZA, the measures for Energy, the ‘money trees-thief trees’ and the KINAL wedge

By Niki Zorba

SYRIZA has already started a priori the falsification of the announced government measures to address the explosive cost of electricity in households and businesses.

THE Alexis Tsipras yesterday, in a TV interview (Alpha), utilizing “leaks” and information about the new mitigation measures that are expected to be announced, attempted to deconstruct them before they were even formally formulated.

“The crucial question is whether these measures that the government will take will water new money trees, so the taxpayers will pay again, the country’s deficit will increase or it will cut the thief trees that I say. That is, it will reduce the notoriety, the super profits, the skyrocketing profits of PPC and other private providers “, the president of SYRIZA stated precisely in terms of the government measures themselves, but putting another variable in the equation: After the government could now find a solution of relief, it means that throughout the previous period of 9 months, he simply had the political choice not to take measures to alleviate the citizens.

The money trees and the “wedge” PASOK-KINAL

“Suddenly he found money trees” is Mr. Tsipras’s attack as in SYRIZA they do not hide that they have been terribly bothered by the government reproach about money trees they have discovered in Koumoundourou, in the same pattern as the promises shared by the ruling party before 2015. .

Such accusations hit the soft belly of SYRIZA: In the credibility, which everyone (each from his own point of view and other interpretation) within SYRIZA, agrees that remains an open bet for the official opposition in order to claim electoral primacy.

The party’s spokesperson, Nassos Iliopoulos, undertook to clarify the presidential argument on “money trees and thieves’ trees”:

“For the whole of April, Greece was first in the wholesale price of electricity. 99% of the increases are passed to the consumer. Austria comes second with only 46%”, he stated characteristically, while referring to the statement of the government representative that the citizens will not see the accounts 4 or 5 times again:

“On the one hand, he admits the amount of increases, when in September the government told us that the bills would be 2-3 euros up. On the other hand, he admits that there are measures that can be taken to prevent the accuracy from reaching consumers. “The government will announce that they will fix the problem at the root, that is, if we are talking about a price ceiling and taxation of super profits, or they will simply subsidize the notoriety that has been set up by both PPC and private providers.”

The “power struggle” between the government and the official opposition (with a “wedge” of the PASOK-KINAL amendment for a ceiling on the retail energy price), still has many episodes to “write”. Maximou already said yesterday that as soon as the prime minister returns from the USA, he will request a discussion at the level of political leaders in the Parliament for Energy.

Source: Capital

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