The Prime Minister delivered a speech Kyriakos Mitsotakis in a discussion at the conference “ygeiamou 2023 – a modern human-centered healthcare system” organized by ygeiamou.gr and Proto Thema on Tuesday afternoon.

The Prime Minister referred to the government’s actions in the field of health, specified that the top priority for the next four years is the reform of the National Health Service, while also attacking the President of SYRIZA-PS in connection with what he said earlier from the same stage of the conference .

The Prime Minister’s entire speech

The Prime Minister, in a statement, spoke of the agonizing four years due to the pandemic, which “have forced us to make violent adjustments to the National Social Security System.”

In Mr. Mitsotakis’s assessment, “when the epilogue is finally written, we will find that we have done better than expected.”

He subsequently reiterated that “NHS reform is a priority for the next four years”, noting that the number of health workers has increased from 100,000 to 107,000, and stressed that there are more secure resources for “what we want to do”. in future”. “Despite our weaknesses, we retain the remarkable response of our people. They helped us overcome the crisis,” the Prime Minister said.

In particular, Kyriakos Mitsotakis stated that “there can be no doubt that these changes will lead us into individual conflicts.” And he explained that “The Greek hospital card has been bothering us for decades. Customer logic has led us to understaff units in some areas.”

The Prime Minister did not fail to mention what SYRIZA President Alexis Tsipras backed from the same move earlier, characterizing “what he said about health is a blatant lie”. “It infuriates me that he is micropoliticizing health issues,” Kyriakos Mitsotakis added.

Regarding the election date, the prime minister said: “In practice, the government has four years to run out. The election announcement will be made on time. Many journalists did not predict that we would run out of four years,” and Kyriakos Mitsotakis expressed confidence that there were “reasonable chances that the New Democracy will be independent in the second election.”

“All provisions of the Constitution will be respected. Everything will be as it should be. I made no secret of the fact that the elections will be held in the spring,” he continued, and for Friday’s cabinet of ministers he said that in addition to the issue of the minimum wage, he would also deal with other issues related to the work of the government.

As for the simple proportional system, he said that he explained why he thinks it is an inappropriate electoral system and that it is extremely difficult to form a government from the first round. “I think we have a reasonable chance of being self-sufficient in the second round of voting,” referring to countries such as Bulgaria and Israel, where elections are continuous due to simple proportionality.

“Is this what we want? Fortunately, we have the opportunity in our country to hold a second election with a different electoral system,” he added.

Regarding the case of Pavlos Polakis, he noted that “It’s not about the Poles, it’s about the Poles. The main representative of Polakism is Mr. Tsipras.“.