To avoid possible targets and convey your campaign message to a wide audience, six political leaders who took part in almost three hour phone call.

The trial did not bring any news while all six tried to turn things around in their closing statements.

Mitsotakis: Always for the Greece we all represent

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis in his closing statement during the debate, he stated the following:

“We have national elections in 10 days. Citizens will be asked to decide whether we will continue to move forward or return to a past that I think we want to forget. I can look citizens in the eye and say, yes, I delivered on my campaign promises and kept the country safe in the midst of unprecedented crises. Our work will be appreciated by the citizens. They vote with the future in mind. For a productive Greece, a Greece that will continue on a dynamic recovery trajectory with a growth rate twice the European average, with unemployment below 10%, a Greece that can raise the average wage to 1,500 euros and the minimum wage to 950 euros. , something that will not happen otherwise if we do not continue the path we have chosen.

I know that in the social Greece that I envision, we still have a lot of work to do, we have a plan to improve the public health situation. I know that Greece will become the main actor in green development, which is necessary for reasons of energy independence. We can become champions, produce more energy from the sun and wind.

Greece, which will remain strong, the main actor in the region, which will participate equally in European events, will jointly shape the Europe that we all represent.

We can make this Greece a reality, and it is up to us whether we will steadily and boldly move forward towards the Greece that we all represent.”

Tsipras: “Big changes are in our hands”

The President of SYRIZA-PS mentioned the “opportunity” that the citizens should vote for “big changes”. Alexis Tsiprasduring his final position in the debate, addressing everyone, whether they are “left, right or center”.

“Over the past four years, injustice has become the regime, revenues dry up in the third week of the month, public hospitals are left abandoned, universities and schools are without teachers and professors, small and medium-sized businesses are drowning in debt, thousands of farmers and livestock breeders are wondering if they can the next day produce, young men and women see their dreams dashed and 700,000 households worry that they will lose their property at auction the next day,” he said characteristically, emphasizing that “we didn’t deserve this Greece, greed, nepotism, corruption, injustice.”

As he noted, “big changes are in our hands”, while he pointed out that these are elections “with simple proportionality and with simple logic”, since the first word for the government will be for the first party. He added that SYRIZA’s victory will be “the first, important and big step” towards “change” and the creation of a progressive government of cooperation that will “change things and our lives”, will “take care of the daily life of a citizen”. “will start raising wages, lowering prices, regulating debts, supporting the welfare state, youth, women, working people, people with disabilities, people of art and creativity.”

“We know and we can. We ruled under the most difficult conditions that have ever been in government,” he continued, while admitting that they made mistakes, but “they ruled honestly.” Finally, he mentioned that SYRIZA was someone who managed to get the country out of the memorandums and also succeed in such goals as debt management or market entry, but she did not govern on the basis of her own program.

“We are asking for a first chance to govern on the basis of our own program, and not the coercion of the troika. We know and we can make changes, we owe it to history and the Greek people to make Greece a normal European country again. With more justice. Justice for everyone. Justice is everywhere,” he concluded.

Androulakis: We can make changes

The President of PASOK-Movement for Change, Nikos Androulakis, in his latest position in the televised struggle of political leaders, raised the stakes in the May 21 elections. “May 21 will be the judge of whether the country will change radically or remain one of the same,” said the President of PASOK-KINAL, adding that changes in the economy and the institutional decline that has occurred are necessary.

As Mr. Androulakis noted, “after the elections there will be a government.” But what kind of government would that be for the country?” and established the main body of the PASOK-KINAL proposal, which he summarized in three words:

– Trust, for the restoration of which, he noted, meritocracy is needed everywhere and transparency of all decisions in Diageyya.

-Dignity, which means, explained the president of PASOK-KINAL, a strong welfare state in which a citizen can apply to the Social Security Administration, knowing that he will find an answer to his problem, and a strong public education for all.

-Development and perspective with a stable economy with production and extroversion, not a “country with endless real estate”.

President PASOK-KINAL called for a strong electoral force to bring change to life with dignity, stating: “We can, if the people give us a strong mandate, make change.”

Koutsoubas: Strong KKE in these elections

“The slogan “their profit or our life” captures not only the cause of the crime that took place in Tempi, which we experienced and shocked the entire Greek society, it also captures the whole course of this development, which our people have experienced all these years. It reveals the contradictions and blind alleys of the system of barbarism that has taken us so far. And, of course, this road has been shaped by all the governments until today and, of course, by the parties that have ruled to maintain this road. Everyone here, even though you said that we should have a livelier debate, as suggested by the KKE from the very beginning at the inter-party meeting, either as Prime Ministers Mr. Mitsotakis and Mr. Tsipras, or as government ministers such as Mr. Varoufakis, for at least one semester, but very important for the course of the country and for the results that we subsequently experienced, negatives, as well as others as party leaders, Mr. Androulakis as secretary of the PASOK joint ND-PASOK government, Mr. Velopoulos as co-government executive director of LAOS, one way or another, everyone here is responsible for this whole situation.

So they are part of the problem, I would say, so the Greek people should know that they cannot be part of the solution to this problem. Because in any case, the government will appear in the next period. According to our estimates, he can withdraw on the basis of programs formulated by the ruling parties that want to become co-rulers, on May 22, the day after the elections.

It seems that their other imperatives lead to suffering for the economy, for the country, for society, for our people in the next elections.

However, this government will be openly anti-popular. So the Greek people must take their measures, the youth must take their measures, and the measures they must take because “before we starve we must cook” is to strengthen the KKE in this election, because that’s the only way she’ll be strong. people against the difficulties and the coming anti-people.

A strong people with a strong KKE”, – this is the message of the head of the Central Committee of the KKE Dimitris Koutsoubas after the end of the debates of the political leaders.

Varoufakis: three parties are “preparing” a new fiscal discipline

In his final free speech, Janis Varoufakis began with a complaint: within three months, MeRA25, he claimed, was submitting a proposal to parliament asking for a vote on the provision that seasonal young workers vote at their place of work, such as, however, happens and with judicial representatives, policemen and soldiers. “The Mitsotakis government fears the Tempi generation. […] shivers, sweats at the thought that the youth will vote, especially those who work in the “workshops” of Mykonos, Rhodes, Santorini.

Speaking about what he considered the stakes in the elections, he contrasted the three memorandum parties, according to which one led the country out of the memorandums, on the one hand, and the MePA25-Alliance for the North, on the other. According to his narrative, the country is in the “most difficult and ruthless” fourth Memorandum, signed by Mr. Tsipras in 2018 and expiring in 2060.

Also presenting figures showing a decline in national income (down 20% since 2007) and debt (up 50%), he once again accused the three parties of “writing” fiscal discipline, another form of austerity, he said.

In conclusion, he said that since 2017 and since then, there has been a permanent plunder of the country with three main pillars: the Energy Exchange, Hercules and the Superfund. None of the three parties will cancel them, he noted, and countered that their cancellation is a condition for the return of young people who are abroad, as well as for those who are still here to stay in the country.