Attack Kyriakos Mitsotakis for the “hidden health agenda” uncovered, in his words, by ND MP Spyros Pneumatikos, President of SYRIZA-PS Alexis Tsiprasfrom Nea Ionia Volos and accused him of “a plan of social plunder and dissolution of the National Health System in order to create space for private interests and funds.”

“Mitsotakis plans to dissolve the national welfare system”

Mr. Tsipras spoke at length about the public health concerns: “Mitsotakis’ hidden plans were exposed by Mr. Pneumatikos, who said what Mr. Mitsotakis himself had said earlier: ‘You will shudder at our health program.’ What did his schedule include? Private hospitals, pilots in three major hospitals, privatization of services through PPPs. Mitsotakis’ strategic choice was not to strengthen public health, which is why we had the highest number of deaths during the pandemic. We left 108,000 doctors, nurses, administrators in the National Health Service, now, four years later, there are 84,000. Mr. Pnevmatikos comes and talks about the privatization of hospitals, the cost-benefit ratio and the choice of patients who do not have a positive prognosis, so that they do not spend the state on their treatment. Let those who cannot afford to pay in the private sector die. That’s what they used to say in ND, those who can’t survive die.” He also referred to EKAV, saying that we have experienced “three days in a row with three losses of our brethren, because there are no personnel in EKAV. Under the terms of the MoU, we hired 300 people during Mitsotakis’ four-year term, and 560 people were fired without any recruitment.”

Summarizing, Mr. Tsipras argued that “the complete dissolution of the NSS is the choice and plan of Mr. Mitsotakis. Greece is the country with the highest private spending on healthcare, 35% compared to 15%, which is the EU average. They want to have a huge space to speculate in private healthcare interests.

“A Call to Progressive Citizens”

Mr. Tsipras addressed the crowd in front of the EPON monument, which he says reminds us that “nothing was given but won with struggle,” adding that “we continue to fight together with the working people.”

He then called on every democratic citizen to support SYRIZA, stating that “every vote not cast by SYRIZA will strengthen ND“and set” the election dilemma: either in favor of the arrogance and omnipotence of the ND to implement its plan to make the rich richer and the poor poorer, or in favor of SYRIZA so that there is a force that will be able to look Mr. Mitsotakis in the eye and prevent the plan social robbery.

“SYRIZA is the ruling party, not an addition to the ND, like KINAL”

Mr. Tsipras wanted to instill optimism in SYRIZA members and voters to keep fighting until the elections. He specifically said:SYRIZA is a mature child of necessity, this is not an outbreak, he came to stay forever close to the people, with the workers and toilers, to fight for their interests. We know well that you are allowed to fall, but you must stand up and fight. We know that only the fights that are not won are lost, and we will fight this fight with momentum and determination until the last second to turn the tide. We will not give it up in the interests of our party, we will fight to overthrow the May 21 ratios, because if they repeat themselves, this will be a negative development for society and for democracy. Their plan is not only to be self-sufficient, but to be all-powerful in order to carry out a plan of social robbery.”

“Every vote that does not go for SYRIZA will be in favor of ND”

He then turned to all citizens who did not vote for ND, that is, to 60% of the electorate, and characteristically stated: “I call on every progressive citizen who has realized that the future is dramatic for society, to strengthen SYRIZA, because with increased proportionality, every vote, which does not go in favor of SYRIZA will be a vote in favor of ND. Therefore, we call on every progressive citizen to strengthen the only alternative force, the only plan against the plan of social robbery, to strengthen SYRIZA. We are moving towards victory, because SYRIZA has not been and will not become either an additional party, like KINAL, or a protest party, but a party of power.”

He referred to a simple analogy in critiquing the parties of the “progressive space”: “We have fallen into the trap of the long-term vision of the left, a simple analogy. This was our vision and we wanted to bring it to life. The simple analogy has not been promoted, and the responsibility for the historical defeat of the simple analogy lies with all progressive forces. that instead of taking the hand we extended to them to overthrow the government of Mitsotakis, they wanted to cut off ours.”

Election dilemma

He then posed an election dilemma: “Now either in favor of the ND of self-confidence and omnipotence, or in favor of SYRIZA in order to have a force that can look Mr. Mitsotakis in the eye and prevent the plan of social robbery.”

He then accused Kyriakos Mitsotakis of making false promises. He characteristically said: “Previous pre-election debates focused on what happened in 2015, as if there was no before, no after, no 2019-2023, no future. We want the discussion to focus on the next four years. We see that ND has a cheat program that includes what she won’t do and doesn’t contain what she will do. None of her promises are included in the medium-term outlook she presented to the EU because there is no fiscal space for their implementation, exhausted him with advantages that favor the speculation of large companies. All of Mr. Mitsotakis’ promises to cut taxes and support society are false.”

“Apartment auctions – gloomy everyday life”

Speaking about the SYRIZA program, he said: “We want combat the theft of income by taxing excess profits. Mr. Mitsotakis tells us that he did not introduce any new taxes, but conceals that imposed additional taxes on Greek citizens for 6 billion euros. with indirect taxes, with VAT withholding, with excise withholding. Our program includes VAT and excise cuts, wage increases and market control to combat speculation. We want to prevent the redistribution of income to the detriment of many, as well as the redistribution of wealth through auctions. Pictures of evictions – like an old man in Halkidiki – will become a daily occurrence in the next four years.

“How much is a human life worth?”

He referred to the cost of the programs: “Mr. Mitsotakis asked us to evaluate our programs. I told him let’s rate them and then we’ll go and talk about it on TV. But he put him on his feet again because his program is deceitful and deceitful. They talk profit and loss about numbers and billions talk about numbers – to those who once left the country bankrupt with a deficit of 15% and the second time in 2015 with an empty treasury, to us, the only government that left the treasury full after being taken out of the country from memoranda. I wonder how much a human life is worth? What is the life of a pregnant woman worth, or a woman in a cart who walked like a dog, or a worker in Perama, because there are no checks. How much is life, dignity, security, solidarity worth? These are our own values ​​and they have no price.”

He concluded by reiterating his call for citizens to “come to the polls and evaluate the government’s programs and alternative proposals, and who will fight once again to make the rich richer and the poor poorer, and who will fight to prevent social looting.” No battle is lost, we will fight. Let’s be strong and I ask you to believe that not only will we not lose our optimism, but we will be reborn and we will be strong at the ballot box and the next day the right is on our side and whoever is right will win.” .

Source: RES