“Our program is not a phone book or an accordion. We do not add or remove benefits, as ND and SYRIZA do,” said a press representative in an interview with SKAI TV. PASOKDimitris Manzos.

Commenting on her Kyriakos Mitsotakis saying to Alexis Tsipras “win, stay – lose, leave”, Mr. Manzos noted that “I notice New Democracy’s concern and affection for SYRIZA, which indicates the government’s strategic choice to make SYRIZA its main adversary. We’ll ruin it for them.”

“This is a policy that should save us from dead ends and widening inequalities. That’s why we’re talking about change, not role rotation,” he added.

Asked about his position PASOK-Movement for Change Regarding the calculation of the cost of party programs, Dimitris Manzos emphasized that “we have said from the very beginning that the State Accounting Office should also pay for the election campaign of the ruling party. The trips of general secretaries, special secretaries and heads of organizations around the country significantly burdened the country’s budget program.

We have read the statements of the Governor of the Bank of Greece very carefully. This is the hundredth time that an institutional body has spoken to us about the need for institutional responsibility. The ND essentially raises wages through internal borrowing, which is substandard development. And SYRIZA does not explain how the cow will be fed to give milk,” he explained, and then emphasized:

“Our program is not a phone book or an accordion. We don’t add or subtract benefits, as ND and SYRIZA do, depending on the poll’s forecasts. We have a different philosophy of seriousness and responsibility. And we say yes, there are institutional bodies, not only the State Accounting Office, but also the Hellenic Tax Council and the State Budget Office in Parliament, that can evaluate programs.”

He described the teaching as “demanding, responsible and serious”. The key question is how much it costs and who is affected, what is the social footprint. If every measure is aimed at structural transformation of the economy, if it promotes employment and ultimately leads to a reduction in inequality.

The experience of the 2008-2009 crisis is instructive. It was the fiscal department of the Karamanlis government that led to bankruptcy, so citizens need to know what they are voting for, how much it costs, and who they are voting for. For yourself and the many, or for the few and powerful?

A spokesman for PASOK-Movement for Change stated that “we have a program of responsibility and seriousness, we say that solutions exist as long as there is political will to implement them. There is also room for a fair tax policy, which is not an excess of indirect taxes that would finance supposedly unprofitable electoral campaigns of a passing type, but a fair tax system that would support a strong and efficient welfare state. And, of course, there must be a redirection of resources from the Recovery and Resilience Fund,” and concluded:

“We want to be in a government of real programmatic convergence and with generally recognized people. These are our conditions. If they don’t like SYRIZA and the ND, who are interested in the personal political survival of their leaders, then that’s their problem, not ours. This is our treaty of honor with the citizens.”

With information from APE-MPE