The message “We will get the money behind the thieves” was sent from Karpenissi where Kyriakos Mitsotakis is currently on the occasion of OPECEPE’s case
As he noted, “We first asked for an exam for OPEKEPE not only to make responsibility, but how we will become better”, adding that the aim is “to use European subsidies for the benefit of real farmers”
Referring to the general political scene, the prime minister commented that “in a democracy we must disagree, but we cannot see our political opponent as an enemy we want to exterminate”
“In an environment of instability we do not need polarization, rationales of extermination of the opponent and criminalizing political life,” he added.
Finally, he assured that “in today’s international environment the country is standing strong, stable and confident.”
Today the government’s proposal for an examination
It is recalled that within the day is expected to formally submit the New Democracy the proposal to establish Inquiry Committee in the House that will investigate the pathogens of OPECEPE and agricultural subsidies over time starting in 1998.
In this way the government It complements the package of actions that move at three parallel levels and aims at the overall treatment of the problematic case.
According to the Maximus Palace The majority’s initiative to conduct an examination of It moves strictly in institutional direction and is the optimal path not only to identify political responsibilities, structural errors and omissions where they exist but also for their substantial treatment. The central objective of the government is also to rationalize the agricultural aid system and to restore justice to the primary sector so that subsidies are proportional to real producers.
Government officials note that “the proposal for examination is a completely logical decision, a” wound “that our country has paid over 2.7 billion euros in the last 30 years” while announcing the summons for depositing “dozens of witnesses”.
Citing Opposition’s complaints about concealment They say that “it is just the opposite, because it excludes no period of governance, nor ours. If not all aspects of OPEKEPE are illuminated, we will never get the answer on issues, such as the technical solution, the cross -checks, if they were done and by whom, which ministers sent how many in justice in previous years, what happened to the technical plans of grazing, and what did we have to do with the technical plans,