During today’s parliamentary debate on the relevant bill, SYRIZA-PS President Alexis Tsipras lashed out at the Prime Minister for not caring at all about military personnel for four years, accusing him of causing national problems in the arena. micropolitical exploitation.

The leader of the official opposition – after expressing support and solidarity with the citizens of Turkey and Syria – spoke about the bill, which is a “pre-election” statement by the government and concerns only one part of the armed forces – the navy. He also emphasized that “national security” required “unity” and accused him of “attacking his political opponents” by implying that they were “compromisers” to serve “micropolitical subterfuges”.

In particular, he accused him of trying to represent “the only patriot” and “defender of national defense” by pointing the finger at his political opponents and denouncing them for “lack of patriotism”. “These were the arguments of the post-racial right. Are you going to travel with them?” he asked, noting that “the commanders-in-chief of the armed forces were bound by numerous guards.” “Father and older brother at the same time,” he said, attributing “big crowns” and “hypocrisy” to the prime minister in order to avoid answers. He referred to the recent tragedy with the death of two Ikaros, arguing that for the time being he should unite us, ”even for this reason, some ND deputies. they are trying to make a “separation of patriotism” and characterizing it as “the last robbery”, to put the armed forces “in the pre-election confrontation.”

Contrasting the $15 billion spent on equipment and the “overpriced Kalamata Air Base” with the concern for military personnel, Al. Tsipras commented that “he has not given a single euro” to the men and women who handle weapons. “The bill that the government is introducing before the elections does not solve any of the critical issues, but only a fair request regarding the fleet,” he said, adding that everything else is “promises” after the elections.

Referring then to the previous government under SYRIZA, he pointed out that “even the last euro counted”, and despite the “international commission”, they did everything in their power to maintain high morale in the armed forces and strengthen their deterrence capacity. in opposition. pre-memorandum governments, which he accused of “making armaments programs a vehicle for waste, enrichment and kickbacks” and for this reason, among other things, “we went bankrupt and entered into the memorandums”.

He pointed out, in fact, that despite the restrictions, the government of SYRIZA managed to get the project to upgrade the F16 to Viper on the ODA, while in the relevant agreements of the current government “not a single worker in Greece” participates.

In addition, he spoke about a number of “favorable care measures for the military” offered by SYRIZA, some of which, he pointed out, were “abolished” by the current government, “for example, an additional 5-year insurance.” for all leaders, which was repealed by Mr. Hatzidakis by the law on the dissolution of workers.”

He went on to detail other measures for military personnel that have been legislated by SYRIZA, such as the return of “one-off 50% cuts that the government of Samara unconstitutionally suspended in 2014” or compensation for night work. for which he said that ND signed the “KYA extravaganza”, and he accused her, among other things, of “joking” with military funds and went to increase their “withholdings”.

He accused the prime minister of “indifference” to “how the officers of the armed forces survive in conditions of appalling precision”, and also spoke of the lack of “will” on the part of the government to ensure the early retirement of EPOPs, at the age of 50, who “will literally find themselves in street and without a pension”, but also for Long Term Volunteers who “still receive the salary of a security assistant”, for cadets of military schools who are unfairly paid in relation to cadets of Schools of law enforcement agencies, for conscripts receiving “crumbs”, for military personnel carrying service in critical areas, as well as in general “for needs that must be met by personnel, since no recruitment of civilian personnel is foreseen”.

In fact, he predicted that before the election the government would introduce “a highly publicized flat salary to cover injustices in the military”, noting, however, that no one would believe a government that “does not retroactively recognize its debts, which cuts any possible earnings such as night shifts, which does not compensate managers under various pretexts, which gives benefits and at the same time takes them with countermeasures, which fires out-of-staff Officers under the pretext that it wants to hire new EPOPs, which unconstitutionally removes hospital staff, which does not even announce what he identified problems in the current payroll.” “The leadership and political staff of the armed forces, Mr. Mitsotakis, understood you,” he said characteristically.

The President of SYRIZA-PS further responded to the Prime Minister’s references to current affairs by stating that it was an oxymoron for him to speak of a “rejection” of the official opposition’s decision to abstain from voting. “Are you talking about deviance when you listened to half of the political system and leadership of the army?” he asked, while explaining that this is an “institutional choice” that the ND faction has chosen many times and most recently, as he said, in 2019, when he left Parliament after the European elections and before the announcement of the elections, and earlier Konstantinos Mitsotakis and Averof.

He also promised that if the Prime Minister answers why he “ordered” these observations, SYRIZA-PS will return to the elections. He also commented that Greece’s promotion to the Economist, which the prime minister cited, was due to pulling out of the memos and that the same report, which he is “proud of,” talks about journalists being silenced and the wiretapping scandal .

“Evidence of the Mitsotakis crime is on supermarket shelves, at gas stations, on electricity bills,” Al said. Tsipras, returning to the topic of the armed forces, spoke of distrust of his person. “The national security and morale of the Armed Forces is not built on crowns, but on respect,” he said and urged him to leave “the armed forces, which he has so discredited, for electoral purposes.”

Source: RES-IPE