Specifically, in its announcement, the Ministry of Development underlines:
“The audacity of SYRIZA to speak about lies is abysmal.
Is it true or false that the Ministry of Development has twice succeeded in bringing representatives of supermarkets, the food industry and multinationals to the table, achieving price reductions in 700 codes in 2024 and recently in 2,180 codes?
Is it true or false that 1,074 of them are food codes?
Is it true or lies that the Ministry of Development and the Government are proceeding with the establishment of the new Independent Consumer Protection and Market Supervision Authority with 300 new auditors and an administrator with a mandate independent from political circles?
Is it true or a lie that DIMEA controls have been intensified, as over 45 thousand controls have been carried out in the last 15 months and more than 16 million euros in fines have been imposed, of which 5.5 million euros are to multinationals, for which SYRIZA has drunk the unspoken water?
Is it true or false that in the summer of 2024 fine caps have increased fivefold?
Is it true or false that Greece has in September, according to Eurostat data, the second lowest food inflation in the European Union, 1.4% against an average of 3.5%?
It has been said that SYRIZA has closed its political circle. With these kinds of announcements and behaviors, he just confirms it in the most solemn way. Lies have short legs, the Greek people remember.”
SYRIZA’s announcement: The Mitsotakis government remains the government of liars and unbearable accuracy
“Just a few days after the announcements of the happy Mr. Mitsotakis, to reduce prices by 8% in over 2,000 codes in supermarkets, the government’s communication mockery is revealed in all its glory, with the relevant reports that identify it multiplying day by day”. underlines in his announcement o SYRIZA-PS.
“Consumers are discovering on the supermarket shelves that the Mitsotakis government remains the government of liars and unbearable accuracy”comments and continues: “The 2,000 “essential” item codes correspond mainly to products of secondary importance, food remains very expensive, with meat becoming a luxury item, products are included in the ‘reduction’ after first being repriced, so that their final price is higher than before. And the Ministry of Development’s control over all these unacceptable things is, of course, non-existent, under the responsibility of Mr. Theodorikakos”.
“This is the reduction that the government is advertising, at the same time as price increases in basic items and food continue. Real household disposable income has fallen by around 7% over the past two years, according to Bank of England estimates. 14% of the country’s population was faced with severe material and social deprivation, according to Eurostat. The purchasing power of Greeks is decreasing more and more”, emphasizes SYRIZA-PS, complaining that “the government continues the policy of monstrous surpluses, stubbornly refuses to hit the nail on the head with radical measures and reductions in VAT and excise tax, refuses to deal with profiteering and insists on propping up the banking, energy and big food cartels”.
“Every day the need for a progressive way out, for a progressive Greece, which can be claimed and achieved by the leftist and progressive forces with the help of the social majority, is becoming more and more apparent”. concludes the SYRIZA-PS announcement.
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