During his television interview on SKAI’s “Unattended” show, PASOK Change President Nikos Androulakiscommented on yesterday’s government announcements.
‘We live a pattern of unstoppable market, precision, inequalities, pass and benefits. We do not disagree with all benefits. In many cases there must be this political choice as well. But we oppose that structural issues are not addressed in this way, neither in rents, nor in health, nor in education, nor in accuracy. Here we want permanent, institutional, structural solutions.
Because in essence, one pocket we get huge surpluses due to over -taxation, precision and indirect taxes, and in the other pocket they put a very small fraction of surplus through the pass. This political choice is ineffective and even complained by Mr Mitsotakis a few years ago, ”he said.
In particular, For the allowance of low -income pensioners, he has shown that the KO. PASOK “We have submitted a relevant legislative initiative to Parliament for the new EKAS for 380,000 low -income pensioners at a cost of half a billion. The New Democracy has called it “populism” and is now making an intervention, which for me does not have the institutional nature that a new EKAS would have. “
In addition, he insisted in the need of a constituted policy that will face the housing crisis And which PASOK has prepared and proposes “by removing the Golden Visa, with short -term leasing restrictions, with new social residences, reconstruction – construction programs, public property utilization, pressure zones so that there is a ban on or reduced short -term lease.
So when you don’t practice these policies, how do you deal with the big issue of offer? Some beneficiaries will get one rent and this will slowly adjust to the market. “
“It’s like having a disease and the doctor chooses to give you a painkiller. I will not argue to get the painkiller because it will limit your pain, but I answer that painkiller is not the cure you should have. Obviously, I can’t disagree with a policy that relieves some people but does not solve the problem and we will find it worse in front of us, ”he added.
Androulakis: Market Ologenic Practices
The opposition leader underlined the oligopolistic practices on the market: “There is an unacceptable market. Oligopolies everywhere, food oligopolies, oligopolies in energy. See what happened with the benefits in the energy: Further increase in energy in those months. Market problems are not always answered with benefits. They are answered by rules that face market distortions. “
THE K. Androulakis He described how the surplus has largely emerged and spoke of non -durable growth: “Why is the surplus great? Huge accuracy brings very high indirect taxes to state funds. Secondly, too many payments from the Public Investment Program are essentially postponed for the coming years, resulting in a fictional picture.
Growth is distorted because one in two direct foreign investment is real estate, that is, Hellenic property. So, non -durable development. “
And he added: “We are the only country that has not made a recovery GDP since 2010. We are the only country that its pure GDP is smaller than 2010 GDP. All other European countries and 26 have the highest real GDP. This also justifies the low purchasing power of the Greek people who are penultimate in Europe. And a second element, very dangerous, which brought us to the memorandum then, is the insistence of having more than 6% deficit in the current account balance. At that time, of course, he had reached 15%.
This shows that The Greek economy has a very big issue of competitiveness. The production model remains distorted, is a consumption model and not extroversion. The situation improves, but at a very slow pace and undermines both economic and social stability. “
“They have fallen 40 billion euros. As soon as we go from the flood to the low tide of the European resources of the Recovery Fund, then we will see the actual radiography of the Greek economy, “he concluded on the issues of the economy.
Androulakis: What did he say about the truth group
Referring to the revelations about the “Truth Group”, Mr. Androulakis He stressed: “Isn’t it a scandal to hit political opponents through the” truth group “and various trolls, which prove to be paid by the taxes of the Greek people and private businessmen?
Isn’t it a matter of misinformation and distortion of public dialogue, a state -of -the -art social media mechanism built by SYRIZA, denounced by Mr. Mitsotakis and made him even worse? We have nothing to do with all this.
I understand the difficulty of our fight. When you go with the tools of the foreground, institutional, parliamentary and others go with “nuclear” of this type, certainly the battle is difficult. “
Androulakis: For the Greece-Cyprus-Israel electrical interconnection
By closing the leader of the opposition officer re-raised the issue of Greece-Cyprus-Israel electric interconnection.
“I expect from the prime minister, and I have said it many times in the House, to come out patriotically and honestly to tell the Greek people what is the timetable for the Cyprus-Crete electric interconnection cable. And not this serial we live in, which for me infringes the dignity of the Greek people and undermines our sovereign rights.
It’s a very serious national issue. One when I put the issue in the House, he displays a paper and tells me that the work is going on. On the other hand, we learn that representatives of the company are called in Turkey to keep the project from continuing, for which we have committed 650m euros to European resources. “