A minister of state and government spokesman issued an appeal to citizens on the occasion of Sunday’s national elections to “thoroughly weigh where Greece was in 2015, where it was in 2019 and where it is today, in 2023.” Akis Shertsos, in his opening remarks during the political editors’ briefing in Thessaloniki today. “We ask citizens who want us to move forward if they would risk going back days and years to times we would like to forget.“, he stressed.

The government spokesman stressed that “the self-sufficient ND government led by Kyriakos Mitsotakis, with people from other political spheres in its bosom, open to ideas, suggestions and best practices from outside its borders, has decisively succeeded not only in maintaining its obligations but also to do more than we have committed to in several areas. Obviously, we do not claim to live in heaven. We are fully aware that Greece still has a long way to go to get closer to European legislation. We must move from living in Europe to becoming Europe“.

According to him, we must “become an economy with decent wages, a society with equal employment opportunities and equal rights for all without exception, with decent health care, with affordable housing, especially for the younger generation, with faster response and administration of justice.” in all major issues relating to society and the economy. We dream of such a Greece, we work for it, a country with great opportunities for social mobility and economic growth for all Greeks.”

Mr. Schertzos added that “Mr. Tsipras’ masks fell off, and where he used to talk about a long-term progressive government, denying the government of the losers, now he does not exclude, talking about a short-lived special-purpose government“.

He added that his leader SYRIZA “certifies unconditionally that he is only interested in power, and not in the welfare and security of the Greek people and the progress of the country.”

“He wants, and it will happen if Sunday’s numbers allow it to be done at the polls, to put the country in trouble again, blowing up what the country and citizens together have achieved through effort and sacrifice in recent years,” the government spokesman added.

In continuation, A. Schertzos said that “Mr Tsipras invites citizens to slow down their lives so that they are not shaken out of their chair”, stressing that “all Mr. Tsipras can offer is the pharaonic program of 83 million euros, which, if implemented, will immediately bring us to ruin and bring new memorandums.”

“We hear from PASOK Mr. Androulakis some socializing obscurities that can’t even be assessed. Mr. Varoufakis cuts the Dimitra plan and dreams of blowing up the banking system, and Mr. Velopoulos fires civil servants and agrees with Mr. Tsakalotos’ local currency and a new tax raid on freelancer income,” he added. .

“They want to rule Greece. Will the citizens allow it? An inconclusive vote, a vote of dissatisfaction with the ND, could eliminate the government’s collusion with disaster from the ballot box. And I don’t risk it. I’m just presenting things as they are. The fate of the country is in the hands of the citizens,” said Mr. Schertzos.

He also stated that “N.D.’s vision this is Greece, which, as they usually say, is not only Athens. Greece, where every region, every corner of our country has its share in the dynamic recovery of the economy. Greece, which does not have second and third class citizens, depending on where they were born and live. Greece, where your origin does not become your destiny that binds you, but a stepping stone to reach as high as you dream and can. A Greece where each of the 13 regions has its own distinct identity and development strategy, and where its inhabitants live, work and invest in their future by choice, not by necessity, in the place they love.”

With information from APE-MPE