“For the manufacturing world, ranchers and farmers, the dilemma is now existential because the cost of production makes it absolutely unprofitable for people to stay in the countryside and produce.” This, among other things, was emphasized today at noon from Trikala and a livestock farm located in the Filira region, the President SYRIZA-PS, Alexis Tsipasas part of a tour he is doing in Western Thessaly.

OUR Mr Tsipras mentioned in an analytical way the problems faced by livestock farmers, a very large part of the country’s productive potential, where 120,000 families are exclusively employed, as he characteristically emphasized, adding: receive, especially for dairy products and milk, to offset the alarming growth, thousands of farmers across the country have been forced to downsize their herds to make ends meet.”

its president SYRIZA – PS he also emphasized that this situation in general is extremely negative for the Greek economy, since, as he explained, “the reduction in domestic milk production has led to an increase in imports, and therefore the consequences for the Greek economy and the trade balance are equally important, this is an extremely negative state.” In his speech, which he delivered on a tractor, he both sounded the alarm and stressed the need for immediate action to support the livestock world. So he said:

“When energy bills for production units have tripled and quadrupled and power has doubled, tripled and increased, then we know the situation is impenetrable.” He highlighted the huge discrepancy between producer and consumer prices, stating that “according to official data from Eurostat, the prices indicated by the producer from the field and the prices that the consumer finds on the shelf differ by an average of 300%.” “.

Mr Tsipras has sharply criticized North North government for a string of negative first results for Greece in the EU, tellingly stating: “We are the EU country with the highest gas station price, the highest wholesale electricity price and at the same time the country with the lowest per capita income. Speaking of dirty profit, he spoke of two forms of dirty profit: “private dirty profit, which you experience in your own skin, combined with state dirty profit, because by keeping the government unchanged, VAT and VAT, which are indirect taxes, rich and poor pay equally – the moment food doubles and triples, a surplus is created in the public treasury so that Mr. Mitsotakis can make some electoral incentives and some subsidies, which he also purposefully gives in order to keep prices consistently high for energy suppliers, checkpoints and other businesses, supermarkets and refineries.”

“What has been happening for the past year and a half is a big robbery,” he said characteristically, adding that “the Mitsotakis government is pursuing a policy aimed at winning the few and the strong and defeating the vast majority.”

Mr. Tsipras then referred to specific commitments “next progressive government» for breeders. In particular, Mr. Tsipras stressed the need to have a protective shield for the world of production, for breeders and farmers, and of course the structural changes that will be considered the next day, the change in the model of production. “A progressive government will introduce rural oil, that is, its non-payment. excise tax for the farmer and livestock breeder, he will introduce a ceiling in the agricultural and livestock flow, i.e. the farmer and livestock breeder will pay for a kilowatt-hour at the price he paid before the crisis, and he will also cancel the VAT on agricultural supplies and animal feed.

“The progressive government will not leave you alone in the face of the ‘Patsid’ who want to rob you,” he said. Mr. Tsipras also touched on the issue of private debt and auctions, stating that the problem is not only in the urban world, the first homeowners, but also in the rural world, recalling that “it’s a long and long story since the period of the Agricultural Bank’s bankruptcy with mortgaged agricultural land”. Mr. Tsipras specifically stated that there are “700,000 auctions ahead, covering both first homes and commercial housing and agricultural land.”

He emphasized that “there was protection of the first house, you know it very well, with the help of the Katseli law, which protected the first house until 2020, when the Mitsotakis government passed this new bankruptcy law”, and referred to his request “to immediately suspend all auctions for the sale of the first houses, agricultural land and commercial housing before the elections.

Finally he referred to his plan SYRIZA – PS for private debt. “We have a plan. To protect the owner, first home, commercial home and farmland. And provide sustainable mechanisms that will allow owners to keep their property. So, let the Greek people know that in the face of these efforts to redistribute wealth, there is a plan to protect, and that you and your fellow citizens here know very well that the progressive government the country needs will not leave you to fend for yourself against the “pacis”, the vultures who want to rob you.”

Following this, Mr. Tsipras attended a meeting with representatives of the Bloc Coordinating Committee in Karditsa, and in the evening he will give a speech at an open meeting in the atrium of the municipal market of Karditsa.

With information from APE-MPE