V bath and to Corinth the president of the New Democracy is on tour today, Friday, Kyriakos Mitsotakis.

“The goal is specific, and it is nothing less than self-reliance in the June 25 elections,” Mr. Mitsotakis emphasized in his speech to the assembled crowd, noting that “we don’t talk about our projects, we talk about our projects. This is our big difference with our political opponents.“.

The ND President attacked both SYRIZAand also in PASOK regarding their positions on taxation, emphasizing that “the goal of ND is to increase wages for everyone, as well as further tax cuts. As he characteristically stated, “The show duty will be finally abolished within four years.”

Earlier, he visited Loutraki, where he walked along the main street of the city and talked with the townspeople, shop owners and vacationers.

Greetings from Kyriakos Mitsotakis:

“I thank you, I repay you for the love you give me, the trust you have shown in New Democracy by giving us a shocking election victory on May 21st.

We keep, as you said, my Mayor, the hope that on June 25 we will achieve an even greater victory for a strong Greece with a self-confident New Democracy at the helm of the country.

I want to tell you how happy I am every time I come to Corinthia. I don’t forget, maybe some of you remember that I started my political career as a New Democracy candidate from Xylokastro.

Every time I come here, to your beautiful places, I see more and more people. I see this wide river that formed with New Democracy in previous elections and gave us a big, strong vote of confidence so that we can lead Greece further, higher, bolder.

Let’s make the big changes that the country so desperately needs. I have to tell you that for me, for all our partners, for all your excellent voting here in Corinthia, it was a great reward. Award for four years of work.

We bowed over problems. A small businessman spoke to me in Loutraki, a conversation I hear very often as I wander the shopping streets. He told me: “Thank you for keeping us alive during the pandemic, and today we have a job and we can look to the future with optimism.”

Thus, these elections became a reward for the common efforts. In the midst of great hardships, we laid the foundations for a better Greece, and the citizens attributed it to us and at the same time turned their backs on toxicity, hatred, division. Unity, perspective and hope won this election.

This is a very encouraging message, friends, and for the future. Because we may have won a great victory, which gives us even more excitement, but I want to say again here from Corinth: nothing is over yet.

The urn will be empty again on the morning of June 25th. The result does not count in the second election. This is not a football match where we won 4-0 and are holding the score for the second leg. Here we start from the very beginning, and the goal is the same: an even higher percentage of New Democracy in all of Greece. And the third place here in Corinthia, let’s take it. And on the fourth.

But for this we will press our opponents a little. I don’t really like – during the whole previous pre-election period – to talk too much about our opponents. After all, they are sure to say it all themselves. To remind us that in the end everyone loves taxes equally in opposition, be it SYRIZA or PASOK. And they should probably rethink the slogan. I read this somewhere, and now on Twitter it dawned on me that when I came, “President came with taxes” turned into “President came with taxes.”

Well, we don’t want taxes, we’re cutting taxes. We’re cutting taxes for everyone, just like we promised. But notice, we cut taxes and at the same time met our financial targets.

Because when the economy grows faster, the state has more money to support education and healthcare. Then entrepreneurs will invest more.

Here in Corinth you know how much new investment is being made and more can be done. Are we talking about production, are we talking about the raw materials sector, are we talking about tourism, are we talking about high technology. And the mayor knows that we are always supporting local government, providing it with more resources than at any time in decades so that it can embark on major development projects.

Indeed, I spotted the Agios Nikolaos basomata the last time I arrived. And I say, does this area within the city really remain unused? So this project is moving forward as well and it will be a big, very important city update for Corinth that you all will benefit from.

For all the mayors who are here, each individually knows how many resources he received from the Ministry of Internal Affairs and how many projects he was able to implement.

Because we don’t talk about our work, you know, we can talk to our work. This is a huge difference between the New Democracy, the responsible force of realistic pragmatism, and those who still dream, hope for a return to the past.

So what I want to emphasize from here, friends, is that nothing has been decided yet. We should all go and vote with the same enthusiasm at the polls on June 25 for the simple reason – you’ve seen the arithmetic of the electoral law too – that if we have more parties in parliament, then the bar of independence can be raised.

That is why we want to be sure that next Monday after the elections the country will finally have a stable government with a strong majority in parliament.

I want to remind you that if it were not for a simple proportional ballot box, today we would already have this stable government. It’s okay, we’ll need another election, but it’s an opportunity to do even better in the next election. And we will go.

We will go because I see this wide “blue river” all over Greece, in which not only the traditional friends of the New Democracy gather, but also our new friends who came with us. On the one hand, because they rewarded us for our work, and on the other hand, because they believe in our program and our vision of a better Greece.

That’s what we want to talk about three weeks before the election. About how we will raise the salary of everyone and everyone, how we will support small and medium-sized businesses, how we will reduce, mind you, even more taxes.

We will eliminate the claim fee within four years and reduce presumptions by 30%.

But I want to emphasize something that is especially important: an increase in the tax-free allowance of 1,000 euros for each additional child, support for civil servants with children, with special wage reform.

Why am I saying this? The biggest problem facing our country today, my friends, is the low birth rate. We need to support families and especially working mothers and enable them to easily have children without thinking about the financial consequences of such a decision.

We have a plan for this area as well. We also have a plan for Education, a plan for Health Care, about how we will reform our hospitals, polyclinics, about preventive examinations that are already underway, about how we will support our weakest fellow citizens.

I read today a very beautiful interview of my friend whom I met homeless – listen to the story, it’s interesting – in the port of Piraeus. This is the first time we’ve started a program for the homeless, and this man has a home and a job.

And he says a big “thank you” for the fact that for the first time someone became interested in these our fellow citizens. I say this because I’m tired of hearing from some others that they are allegedly progressive. No, my friends, the great popular progressive party of the country is the New Democracy. Because we have always had the duty to support the weakest, and we, friends, have always paid great attention to national issues.

You know what important work has been done over the past four years to strengthen the position of the country. You know that we have received the country of the “open vine” and today Greece has borders both at sea and on land.

You know the situation in which our Armed Forces find themselves. And just yesterday, the US Congress made a very important decision. He released and officially gave his consent to the acquisition by our country of modern F-35 aircraft. All this did not happen by chance. They were made with hard work, and this work must continue. Because nothing we have achieved is taken for granted.

The country still needs four more years of New Democracy to be able to finally turn the page. To make a big leap towards Europe, to be able to maintain this high growth that we have achieved, and to be sure that this growth will eventually have an impact on the lives of every Greek citizen.

That’s why this ballot box is so important. Basically, there is a proposal from the government: only New Democracy at the moment can claim the trust of the Greek people, because the opposition has also taken care to get out of this game, since they tell us that they do not want to work with us and essentially compete in the opposition primaries.

We tell them, “Do your job,” but remember that “in elections, the citizens vote for the government, not the opposition” and with your trust, the government will again be a New Democracy. Finally, to those who argue even today that “they don’t want the New Democracy to be omnipotent” – this is the new trope we hear from the opposition – I will answer them very simply with one sentence: the Greek people are omnipotent. He decides in the end, he gives power to those who will rule him the next day, and no one should question his will.

Friends, before my vote finally closes, because we are in this phase of the pre-election period, when the vocal cords are very tired, I want to thank you again very much.

Not only because of your presence here. For your struggle, for your love, for your enthusiasm, for your optimism, and I promise to come back after the elections. I will be coming to harvest in Nemea, so after the election let’s drink the glorious Agiorgitiko to celebrate the great victory of the New Democracy.

Best wishes. Thank you very much. Good strength and good fight.”

Source: ERT