“Our program is fully cost-effective, realistic and basically meets the needs of society. The cost estimate made by the ND at the beginning was 25 billion, then 45 billion, then 80 billion, before the elections it will reach 180 billion. From the first moment we have given a detailed cost estimate for our program,” said the president of SYRIZA PS. . Alexis Tsipras to the question of journalist Antonis Schreuter (Alfa) about the cost of the program in the context of the column “Economy, development, employment”.

Mr Tsipras said that “apart from the cost of all the expenses that you put in the budget, such as the need to increase the salaries of civil servants who have 14 years of age in order to receive a raise, or the payment of the 13th pension that we have established, and Mr. Mitsotakis canceled – there are also incomes. He pointed out that there is income “from taxing excess profits, because at this time, when the average household cannot earn the third week of the month, and 15 large companies listed on the stock exchange have a 20-year record of profits of more than 1 billion each.”

He emphasized that the SYRIZA program will benefit a large social majority, but it will cost some, those who stop seeing these super profits, it will cost money, those who earn billions during the crisis.

He added that “it’s a shame that those who have 10 billion in direct contracts and closed tenders tell us where you can find them to give bonuses to civil servants and pensions to pensioners. It’s a shame that those who have given more than 10 billion over the past year and a half in subsidies to keep prices high for energy companies are telling us where we will find the money to give the newly appointed doctor a salary of 2,000 euros. If we don’t decide to make these big cuts, there won’t be a middle class in a few years.”

Source: APE/MEB