“An election with simple proportionality is not an election with a lack of votes, because in this election a government will be formed,” said the President of SYRIZA. Alexis Tsiprasin his speech at Chios.

According to him, “a quiet vote means Mitsotakis, dirty money, injustice, perpetuation of great inequality, perpetuation of the drama that we have lived through for 4 years.”

The President of SYRIZA noted that the number of young people voting for the first time exceeds 450,000, noting that “the strongest vote of protest will hurt the establishment”, adding that “the defeat of Mitsotakis and ND means the victory of SYRIZA.”

Launching an attack on the prime minister, he stated that “Mr. Mitsotakis intimidates, terrorizes, blackmails the workers he forced to work in the labor jungle regime. He abolished the 8-hour working day, the obligation to pay overtime, collective agreements. And now he wants to blackmail the workers into voting for his boss, ND, by setting up unconscious employers.” “This is a waste of time,” he added.

Abolition of the minimum import base

Mr Tsipras argued that the current government is targeting young people: “a tree in the squares, a tree in universities and fences for their admission to higher education institutions, the first thing Ms. Kerameos did was set a minimum admission base and expelled 20,000 students every year from public universities.”

The President of SYRIZA said that one of the first legislative initiatives would be to abolish “this pathetic immoral minimum entry base. Therefore, those taking exams should be aware that Mrs. Kerameos will not have a cutter in June. Twenty thousand more students will have access to higher education.”

“The Worst Right-Wing Government”

Mr Tsipras said the current government is “the worst right-wing government since post-colonialism and beyond, because it’s not just a government of the right, but a government of big interests.” He accused the government of a “subterfuge” which subsequently, by “maintaining high indirect taxes and subsidies”, amounted to “plundering the revenues (…) so that they go into the pockets of five large energy companies, two or three oil refineries and all business -groups that created a cartel in the food industry.

Speaking about the weapons programs, he said: “Let’s welcome Rafal, but if we do not have the ability to protect our islanders, they do not have doctors, hospitals, air transport … It is our national duty to protect the integrity of our homeland, of course, but let’s also protect the islanders “.