“Crucial to our lives is what policies will govern the country,” said Mr. Alexis Tsipras ahead of the campaign battle on May 21st by delivering an open speech after his tour of the market Corinthwhere he discussed with store owners and consumers.

its president SYRIZA PS he urged citizens not to pay too much attention to what they see in the media in recent days, but to pay attention to daily communication with ordinary people in the squares, on the streets, in cafes, at workplaces. He argued that “for four years now, injustice has dominated our lives” and “it’s time to talk about it. So far in discredit, so far in exploitation, so far in deceit and injustice.

“Time to end”

He added that “for four years now, the deception of the middle class, pensioners and employees, the discrediting of any concept of the public interest, has prevailed.” “One of them is the feeling that now dominates the citizens. What is the time to say so far,” he said, emphasizing that it is necessary “for the forces of honesty to come forward, but also with a plan that will give breath and progress in place.”

Mr. Tsipras emphasized that “it is extremely important to talk about the real problems that Greek society is facing before the May 21 elections. That’s our goal, to talk about problems.” He noted that “the real problems are, first of all, the reduction of income, labor relations, lack of hope for a new generation, the vulnerability of citizens in the face of a hostile state, the collapse of the national health system, fear of crows and funds that hide to get first place. residence, business house and agricultural land.

He noted that “on the contrary, the government, Mr. Mitsotakis, his ministers, the media that support them, do not want us to discuss these big problems at all. And they don’t, because they don’t have the answers. For four years they have given samples of the letter. They don’t have answers to precision, to shrinking revenues.” He said that speculation is a Greek phenomenon and that “our country cannot be the most expensive country in Europe in terms of electricity, gasoline, with the most expensive prices in the supermarket, while we have the lowest wages.”

“The authorities cannot mock the people for 4 years and want to mock them again at the urn”

He accused the government of being unwilling to provide answers, noting that “they go so far as to convey the world because of a disturbance in perception.” “Yesterday I saw how they were trying to amateurishly put on another show for the TV cameras by restarting the railway a month after the tragic accident at Tempe,” he continued. “They went so far as to dress up the ND executives at OSE as supposed passengers, the same people who participated in the fiasco of the show at the Larissa station, to show that there was supposedly a remote control station, and it was an outdated console. The same people who pretend to be passengers and say they feel safe.” “How stupid do they make the citizens look?” – he asked. He commented that he did not know if American communicators were giving them this advice, while he quoted Abraham Lincoln “that you can fool everyone once, fool some all the time, but you can’t fool everyone all the time.” “This government cannot mock the Greek people for 4 years and wants to mock them again at the polling stations on May 21,” he stressed.

He also accused the Mitsotakis government of “deceiving” pensioners: “He ordered them in 19 to keep the 13th pension, which at that time was called crumbs and amounted to 1.1 billion a year. He backdated and tricked the retirees into not converting, because what applied would get what the rest would. Nobody took gifts and side dishes. If you add up over 4 years, how much it costs to cut the 13th pension and not return it retroactively, then pensioners will have less than 7 billion euros.” He also accused the government of “cheating” the middle class: “They ordered a tax cut, and what they finally gave after 4 years was an unprecedented, frightening increase, revenues are decreasing, and it ends in the third week of the month.”

He added that according to official data from Eurostat, with an income of 750 euros a month, purchasing power fell by 40%, while he commented that “they became the middle class that they had to support by going to the supermarket with vouchers.” and paying with vouchers for gasoline and electricity.”

President SYRIZA accused Mr. Mitsotakis and the government of planning to redistribute the wealth and property of the middle class and the weak in favor of the few and powerful. He said that this redistribution is carried out in two ways. On the one hand, “the government supports high VAT and social tax. Why is he doing this when prices have skyrocketed? To increase government revenue. We have dirty profits and dirty government profits.” He said that in 2022 VAT revenue will be 4 billion more, and “it provides subsidies not to citizens, but to energy companies to keep electricity prices high, oil refineries to keep gasoline prices high, supermarkets. to maintain prices. “15 large public companies in 2022 had a 20-year profit. At the same time, tens of billions are the losses of the middle class, employees, pensioners. In the same context, he spoke about “the condition of working children, mothers, golden boys, thousands transferred with higher salaries and tripling of the management staff at DECO”, and about 10 billion that were given in direct assignments and closed competitions to companies that created a “big scandal ” three days ago”. “From the many to the few and the powerful, and at the same time the blue locust stealing public money,” he stressed.

“If Mitsotakis is elected, this tsunami of auctions will come

He noted that “the second form of redistribution is related to the redistribution of wealth through a tsunami of auctions.” He stated that “if Mr. Mitsotakis is elected, this tsunami of auctions will come.” Mr Tsipras said he was speaking to the weak, middle-aged, self-employed, wage earners, retirees “who, for all their hard work, have a house with credit and cannot repay that turned red and was handed over into funds, and is expected to be put up for auction in the next period. He added that “private debt has increased by 40 billion, non-performing loans have reached 111 billion and 700 thousand properties have passed into the hands of funds and management companies, their value is more than 40 billion euros.” He noted that “their plan is to change hands” and that “this is a big issue that should worry Greek society ahead of the elections.”

In this context, he referred to the SYRIZA-PS proposal for the protection of the first houses, commercial housing and agricultural land and raised the dilemma of elections, among other things, by appealing to “all citizens, right, left, centrist, not only the left, to citizens who worked and see that their property is under threat”: “Dilemmas – protection of property or theft of property. Settlement of debts or redistribution of wealth from the middle class into the hands of a few.”

He calculated that “society will decide on the regulation of loans and the protection of the first home” and emphasized that “society cannot become a jungle”, “we cannot live in a land of robbery, the middle class and the weak cannot become the north into the hands of a few” .

“Syriza victory and progressive coalition government the next day”

“The next elections are crucial for our lives,” Mr. Tsipras emphasized and said that “simple proportionality is a fair electoral system and the choice of SYRIZA, but this does not mean that we choose to vote for the “protest”, but we say it in another way: the strongest protest vote, the strongest anti-system vote is what will harm the system that has ruled us for 4 years. The Mitsotakis Regime”. He noted that “a vote that will harm both the interests and those who govern us is a vote that will lead to the defeat of the ND. And this is a vote for SYRIZA.” “With the victory of SYRIZA, the next day there will be a progressive government of cooperation that will restore justice, hope and perspective. Not in adventures with the second and third elections,” he stressed. He repeated that voting for SYRIZA means: “increasing wages, lowering prices, regulating debt, a fair and efficient strong state next to the citizen.”

Finally, he commented that “some people present themselves as allegedly anti-system” and wondered “how anti-system those who are against the system and want to put prosecutors and judges in combination, that is, a system within a system,” are. ? “The fight against fascism, intolerance, misanthropy is not carried out by empty and unconstitutional decrees, but by daily struggle, solidarity and support for the weak and the excellent. For a pluralistic and democratic society where everyone will be equal,” he stressed.

He eventually stated that “On May 21st we vote for our lives, we turn our backs on injustice, we put justice back in its place. SYRIZA will win the elections, and a progressive government will give hope, perspective and breath to the vast majority of society.”

With information from APE-MPE