“We want and work every day for the social mobility and economic growth of Greece for all Greek men and women, and especially for our younger fellow citizens.“, – emphasized the Minister of State and the representative of the government, Akis Shertsos in his opening remarks during the political editors’ briefing.

“Program for Greece for 2027 and 2030”

“Every aspect of our agenda for Greece 2027 and 2030, i.e. productive, social, fair, digital, green and of course a strong Greece, serves this purpose,” he added, saying that “the class of each of us, his place of origin and economic position should not act as fate“.

He stressed that the goal is for every young Greek man and every woman to live better than previous generations in our country.”stay and create in Greece not out of necessity, but out of choice and pride.”

Continuing to enumerate the goals of the government, Mr. Schertzos referred to the need to “to make the Greek economy more productive, more export and investment friendly, with better jobs, higher wages, electronic payments, tax compliance and tax fairness for all.“.

“We want and work every day so that by 2027 and 2030, based on our plan for the next four years, which is fully estimated at 9 billion euros cumulatively until 2027, our country continues to show twice the growth rate of the rest of Europe, about 3% per year, raising wages by 25%, reducing public debt to 120% of GDP, doubling public and private investment, but also reducing inflation to 2%, so that at the end of each month something is left aside as savings for our children. All of this will be accelerated by reaching investment grade during 2023, which is a major national and economic challenge.”

And, according to him, this is a goal “related to the formation of a stable, financially responsible and pro-investment government, like the current one, immediately after the elections.” He added that “the rating agencies warn that without political and economic stability, things will not be easy” and we have suffered a lot in the previous 12 years to embark on new adventures again.

“The purpose of the NHS is to offer quality health care free of charge.”

Then he was referred to National Health System and in the plan presented and developed last Tuesday. He explained that “thanks to the 1.5 billion euros allocated by the Recovery Fund to improve the health of citizens, 80 hospitals and 156 clinics will acquire modern equipment in the next four years. An additional 10,000 nurses and doctors will be recruited to reach the European average nurse-to-patient ratio. All citizens will be offered free preventive examinations and a free personal doctor.”

As he said “the goal is for the NHS to offer quality health care free of charge in order to improve both life expectancy and quality of life for Greeks, and last but not least, to reduce the costs that a Greek family incurs in health care costs, with the goal of eliminating the famous wallet“.

He emphasized that “neither the economy nor health will improve unless we completely change our state.” He added: “We aim to have the entire state on our mobile phone by 2027. We said it and proved that we can do it with even faster speeds and fiber network across the country.”

“Back in full swing”, SYRIZA program”

This is her bet. ballot box May 21according to Mr. Schertzos: “will the country continue to move forward, will it make the necessary leaps to become Europe in all areas, or will it return to experiments that have proved disastrous and cost society dearly,” he stressed. .

He pointed out that “in The SYRIZA program, which was presented in more detail on Friday and yesterday, only points in one direction: back in full swing. And it is based on the general principle: no to everything and yes to nothing.. Over the past four years, we have counted at least 30 repeals of laws that, as it turned out, improved people’s lives,” he said.

The entire political editors’ briefing

“We counted 80 more ads that just promise policies that are either already implemented or on the way to being implemented,” he added and accused SYRIZA of lack of ideas and bilingualism.

“The decline in confidence and limited effectiveness that we have seen in the previous four years provide an answer to the question of whether SYRIZA will be able to deliver on what it proclaims and to what extent,” he stressed.

“We also counted 18 commitments that could have been implemented in 2015-2019, but were never fulfilled,” Akis Skertsos added in his criticism of Alexis Tsipras’ statements.

With information from APE-MPE

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