“Tsipras is a political demagogue and this is not what the country needs at the moment”
Continued in the counter with PASOK – Movement for Change. Akis Skrtsosin an evening interview with Action24. Thus insisting on what he had written earlier in his post on the copy of government slogans by the opposition party, he noted: “We will not enter a PASOK slogan competition, it just needs originality in politics as well.” While at the end of the show, when the PASOK spokesman Kostas Tsoukalas Movement was announced, the Minister of State opposed that “Anyone who claims the monopoly, in truth, in sensitivity, in absolute, lies.”
Then the so -called “TIF basket”, according to Mr. Skrtso “This year’s Thessaloniki exhibition is a focal point where a collective effort is launched in 2019 onwards”. While underlining two central government policies: the steady tax reduction, 72 taxes on the one hand, and at the same time the choice of “front with the injustice caused by tax evasion in our country”. Indeed, he continued, from the latter, “the surplus is emerging and not from any tax increase, as the opposition is implied or directly said. Taxes have been reduced, but revenue has increased because the economy is going better, turnover is growing, the tax is increased and at the same time more revenue is coming to the funds than tax evasion. “
In fact, he emphasized from the outset that “the great reform in income tax is an answer to the problem of accuracy”. After noting wages that “the registered salaries have increased, by 35.5%, the minimum, by 28% of the average salary”, added that “the Consumer General Index has increased cumulatively from 2020 to date, about 20%.” “Something stays in the pocket, I’m not saying that people are easy to get over,” was his conclusion.
After all, he added, “Inflation is an international problem. The average inflation increase in the rest of Europe is 26.5% in five years cumulative, in Greece 20%. This means that we have done something a little better to limit the adverse effects of inflation. “
At this point he recalled the Prime Minister’s basic pre -election commitment from 2019 to 2023 that we are working for an economy for everyone with everyone, where incomes will grow in a dynamic way to reduce the gap between Greek and European incomes. ” He also said that “for many years Greece should grow at a double or triple pace to reduce the gap. When the opposition tells us that we are the second, third country with the lowest purchasing power, we did not receive Switzerland or Denmark in 2019. We received a country coming out of bankruptcy and memoranda. “. Consequently, “he had to run faster and has achieved it in conditions of international crises,” he noted.
Speaking about the roof, he said that “the housing is a major issue, an international problem.” An additional parameter is that “in recent years the number of tourists visiting Greece has been quadrupled”, even “short -term leasing is a problem and we have taken action.” And, quoting all government policies that touch on both supply and demand, especially for “My Home 1 and 2” programs he pointed out that “So far 20,000 households have acquired their own home, the number is not small, it is a small town in 2 years.”
Returning to the tax measures announced by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis from Thessaloniki, he stressed that “for the first time in the post -political and not only history of the country, such a large package of taxation is given in the wage labor. Over time, the employees were the … thrown of history. There was no policy for the family through taxation, there was no policy for young people, there was no policy for employees. “
In response to the opposition’s objections to the 13th salary, he argued that “If we took a meter like the 13th salary, we would waste almost all the budgetary space available in a measure that concerned only civil servants.”. Instead, it was preferred “the measures we took, amounting to 1.6 million, to be 4 million citizens”. In fact, he insisted on the cost of returning the 13th salary on the grounds that the European Commission is considering insurance contributions as costs.
Changing the subject, to OPEKEPE, the position expressed by the Minister of State was: “Public money waste is a timeless scandal that hurts every conscientious taxpayer of the country, it is a shame for the country and should never be repeated. This is our place. “ Reminder that “fiscal implications have been made in Greece of € 2.8 billion from the beginning of 2000 for agricultural subsidies”, he spoke of a “timeless and structural problem”. However, he clarified, “this does not mean that our government has not been responsible for six years, (responsibilities) that it failed to correct this problem. We have made efforts, but they did not perform as expected. We have assumed political responsibility and have made some decisions. “
But he also set another parameter saying that “it was not possible to cross -check so far because Greece has never acquired, because of the previous governments, forest maps, land registry, grazing plans, cross -digital mechanisms. All these are now: The Land Registry is delivered, the forest maps have been delivered, the grazing plans are delivered and there are intersections. ” In conclusion, “the customer state is a wake for democracy,” he noted.
Asked if arrogant phenomena have been found within the government, Mr Skertsos replied as follows: “We are citizens’ servants, we are in these positions. We have a goal: to make the lives of citizens a little better every day. This is what we must remember. ” And he added: “I’m not important I, it’s important what I do.” While in a more personal tone he assured: “I work every day to make the middle class life better.”
Subsequently, stating the stable, one -party governments, he said, on the other hand, that dialogue and consensus are necessary because this is the only way the homeland will go further and higher. And, he returned to criticism against PASOK and his president, accusing Nikos Androulakis of being “possessed by an inevitable syndrome that acts as a bob for his political presence”.
The interview ended with what he said about former Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras: “I do not approach the presence of Mr. Tsipras Takticistically, I think there was a devastating prime minister for the country. We all have the right to the mistake of, of course, with a basic condition: to recognize it, to do honest and strict self -criticism and to prove in practice that we have changed. None of this has done by Mr Tsipras. It must be judged not only for his government’s life, as – and even very strict – and on how he led the opposition after 2019. He committed top mistakes, “the minister said, setting the example of the management of the pandemic, while recalling that the former prime minister in 2023 had come down with “a new Thessaloniki program”. In the meantime, it is “a political demagogue -and this is not what the country needs right now.”