“It is now necessary to resign the government and the call for elections”
“We said goodbye today (yesterday) with sadness, emotion, respect and love Angelos Mandadakis. A leftist fighter, with morality and sensitivity, who always put “we” in front of “I”, said the SYRIZA-PS President, Socrates Starting his intervention at the party’s Political Secretariat meeting.
In terms of current affairs, he spoke of a “gloomy environment” created by the ND government “With the culmination of yesterday’s (Wednesday) which is a black page for the Hellenic Republic.”
“Mr Mitsotakis proved that they have literally no barrier, if he has gone diverting to hide the OPECEPE scandal,” he said, stressing that “The Mitsotakis regime is creating a political and institutional crisis, in order to hunt and put the truth about the scandals of its government.”
He estimated that “Mr Mitsotakis has serious intra -party problems” and that “He is afraid of his Members and does not allow them to express themselves freely.”
“The Inquiry Committee voted by the ND is an examination of concealment and dangerous offsetting,” he said, while, as he noted, SYRIZA from the first moment held a responsible stance and proposed with the new Left the establishment of a pre -trial committee. “We do not consider yesterday’s debate over and demand that the Speaker of the House will continue”he stressed, while describing as “vulgar” the “slanderous attack by Justice Minister George Floridis in the progressive opposition” and “with the aim of changing the agenda”, again calling for his dismissal.
“It is now necessary to resign the government and to call for elections, so that a progressive government can get the country out of the deadlock. Mr. Mitsotakis, besides being a coward, is also dangerous. He leads the country every day to the downhill to keep his chair, “he added.
Referring to the recent EU-US Agreement on duties, he said that “it is a particularly negative development for European countries and European citizens, but also alarming for the future” and that “Europe has succumbed to the” law of the powerful “that Trump wants to impose.”
Among other things, it described the common amendment with the new Left for the 13th pension, personal difference and solidarity contribution, with the “great social interest”.
“Today we are submitting to the new left -wing request for nominal vote for universities. We have expressed many times that we are in favor of progressive partnerships and parliamentary co -operation, “he continued, noting that” the Education bill supplies authoritarianism and contains easy removal of student status, while vacancies at HEIs are a strong bell “. “The government is doing everything it can to create clients for private colleges, which it has unraveled.”
Other issues referred to the meeting last week with the Chinese Ambassador, “highlighting the need for the country to have a multiparty foreign policy”.
“We were present and present on the side of the societies affected by the recent fires and where needed we took help and solidarity initiatives. We highlighted and reminded the suppression of the seasonal firefighters by the government in the winter, the lack of staff and, in particular, the absence of fire prevention, “he also noted, and also referred to the conversation campaign by SYRIZA with the agricultural world.
Before the gates, he continued, is the revelation of the new government’s recycling houses scandal, a issue that SYRIZA-PS has brought, as he said, many times in Parliament and remains on alert.
Referring to the “huge issue with charges – ATM commissions”which has emerged after Piraeus ‘machinery has been granted to a company that imposed consumer charges, commented: “The government by an amendment, instead of correcting the problem, opens up to consumers’ debt door, while PASOK KINAL, despite its own amendment.” “We stood opposite to the interests and right of consumers and against the banks’ superstar,” he clarified.
Finally, in view of the TIF he called on a “alert” and preparation. “The first meetings have already been held to prepare the party, which will continue in the coming weeks. The landmark on September 6 in Thessaloniki and September 10th the great event of SYRIZA-PS at the TIF with a central speech of president. There will be meetings with productive bodies from August 24 and tours in Central Macedonia 4 to 9 September, “he noted.
Finally, he said that “SYRIZA-PSA executives and executives should be alert in August with presence all over Greece.” As he explained, it is important to prepare proposals in view of the TIF with the central issue of accuracy in consumer products, electricity and in the inability of half families to vacation, as well as the defense of institutions and democracy. “