The assumption Legislative Initiative by PASOK to establish stricter conditions for direct assignments today caused the government’s reaction.
The opposition party party gave Friday the text of the relevant amendmentreferring to a “opacity party” and noting that in recent years they have exceeded 15 billion euros.
PASOK’s amendment predicts:
- Extension of the ‘cutter’ with which contracting authorities can spend up to 10% on their credit on specific types of direct assignments to cover all direct assignments.
- Reduce the above percentage to 5%.
- Reduction of the ceiling out of 30,000 euros without VAT to 20,000 euros without VAT and of 60,000 euros without VAT at 30,000 euros without VAT.
Marinakis: Kleptop War and Passover by PASOK
Today, Government spokesman lifted the glovetalking about “Three critical elements, which, which, fraudulently or not, hides by the president of the opposition,” hides or not. “. Paul Marinakis specifically argued that:
- From 2020 to 2024, EUR 10.2 billion contracts have proceeded with the direct assignment procedure to a total of 64.2 billion euros worth of contracts.. That is, direct assignments account for 15% of the total value of the contracts.
- By direct assignments 13.9% have advanced from the central government and the rest are from local government.
- OR Average value of direct assignments is 12,500 euros plus VATthat is, below the 20,000 threshold proposed by PASOK.
He accused PASOK and Nikos Androulakis of being followed by an opposition tactic of “kleptocracy and poaching”.
PASOK: You are the government that “legitimized” the opacity
Immediate was the response of Harilaou Trikoupi, uposting that numbers ‘expose irreparably’ the government spokesman. “We overlook the fact that he considers $ 10.2 billion a” small “amount and go to the essence,” PASOK’s press office says, attempting to deconstruct Pavlos Marinakis’ arguments. Noting that the government has given all the assignments without open competition more than 20 billion euros, It calls on citizens to imagine “how much savings would have emerged if these 20 billion euros were given by open competitions, achieving rational discounts of 20-30%”. PASOK calculates the savings of 4-6 billion euros, “as long as they add two ENFIA”.
At the same timeaccuses the government that “it is cutting the 50,000, 80,000 or 100,000 contracts in smaller piecesso they can distribute them to the “days”. That is why they increased the threshold from 20,000 to 30,000 euros. So they can do their job easier. ” PASOK argues that these are mentioned by the Court of Auditors, but also by the Commission, which has recorded that “the percentage of tenders that result in only one bid is steadily increasing since 2021 and is well above average in the European Union (in Greece 55%, compared to 32% in the EU in 2024).
Finally, PASOK notes that the government’s responsibility is to ensure transparency for all public bodies.
“Your policy is summarized in three words: arbitrariness. Discipline. Optigial, “the opposition party argues, accusing the government of” legitimizing “the opacity and wasting of public money.