Ruthless hammering on all fronts launched from the floor of the Parliament the Alexis Tsipras to Kyriakos Mitsotakis and the government. Ο president of SYRIZA-PS responded one by one to the Prime Minister's allegations in his speech to the citizens earlier, while calling on him to stop the impression games and leaks and tocall elections in September.
The President of SYRIZA-PS began his speech by commenting on the applause given to Kyriakos Mitsotakis by the parliamentary group of the New Democracy Party, you needed a morale boost. They did not turn their backs on you like the vast majority in Strasbourg,» he said.
Alexis Tsipras noted that the Prime Minister spoke for 46 minutes on social policy issues, but forgot to mention five crucial words. «Accuracy, inflation, gasoline, pandemic, collusion» he said meaningfully.
The leader of the opposition called on Kyriakos Mitsotakis to stop plucking the daisy and being a factor of instability. «Society cannot stand you any longer, 3 years is more than enough, it will not become 7», he stressed. «The dilemma of the ballot box you are facing is political change and a nightmare with an end or a nightmare without end» he stressed .«Announce that there will be elections in September» caused it.
The main points of Alexis Tsipras' speech
- In 46 minutes of speech, Mr Mitsotakis, you did not say the words accuracy, inflation, petrol, pandemic and conspiracy. I did not hear those words. Your speech today is case study on how many lies one can tell in a speech and make black and white.
– You even dressed up as the JPC today, you told us that the law is the right of the worker, you who you abolished the 8-hour day and the whole framework of work.
- You are investing in an audience that you think is ignorant. The people are not ignorant, don't underestimate them like that.
– Mr Mitsotakis has long been playing with national issues, institutions, justice, society and of course with elections., which have been the subject of bets in the casinos of his regime.
- This game must be over, let the sound arrivals, you are the first prime minister who has managed to become a factor of political instability on his own.
We are calling for six months of elections because the country is heading towards a deep deadlock, you prove to be a multiplier of the crisis. Every day that goes by you place new burdens on the next government and the people.
– Stop plucking the daisy and call an election, your ministers are not concerned with anything but their election campaign. Your poor MPs know that one in two will not be re-elected because of the simple proportional representation, they have hung up their braids.
- When you announced the debate ten days ago, you didn't count on three consecutive defeats in such a short time. One unfortunately national defeat at the NATO Summit, a incredible waterloo that shattered the manufactured narrative of the Novartis scandal and one yesterday in the European Parliament you found yourself apologizing for the rule of law and freedom of the press. You will give answers on all three issues, Mr Mitsotakis.
Are we living in the wondrous world you described? Of course not.
You can live in your own world, but society is elsewhere and insecurity is the dominant emotion. Whatever you say, it is reality that contradicts you.
Who feels secure with the course of our national issues? The BBC has announced that we are the 4th country in the EU and 8th in the world to have given the most weapons to Ukraine. More from France, Italy. Why are you putting the country in adventures, why are you involving us? Couldn't you be against the invasion and Putin without becoming part of the crisis?;
This is not IX foreign policy; When did you inform the parties, the Parliament? Did you decide on your own to change the foreign policy doctrine that all governments from Constantine Karamanlis to the present day have had?.
You adopt a doctrine of a loyal and given ally that does not claim guarantees and support, but grants rights in the hope that his obedience will be appreciated.
Give in exchange for six military installations and the port of Alexandroupolis indefinitely. You involve Greece directly in the war. You give 15 billion in armaments in three years to the US and France, without a single screw being produced by the Greek defence industry. And at the same time you see Turkey rapidly upgrading its role, the US cancelling EastMed. And Mr Mitsotakis says he is satisfied that Sweden and Finland lift restrictions on the sale of arms to Turkey.
– All this happened in Madrid and you were taking pictures of the paintings, Mr Mitsotakis.. I wonder why you left the Summit overjoyed and with declarations of triumph. Before your plane landed we heard that there would be a sale and modernisation of Turkey's F16s.
- We send weapons to Ukraine at the request of the US and they give planes to Turkey to fly over and tell us to «get it together».
You deserve congratulations for the management skills of your excellent ministers.
– How did you manage this with TurkAegean?; With so many excellent officials, the request had been tabled since July 21, six months in the drawer and not a deputy minister was found to stop it?;
- We are not accusing you of treason, we are not falling to the extreme point of populism as you did when you said that I exchanged pensions for Macedonia, we accuse you of managerial and dangerous incompetence. Even on our national issues.
– The country must return to safer paths in foreign policy.
- Mr. Mitsotakis, Mr. Georgiades at least had the courage after the decision of the Judicial Council to request a Sorry, You?;
You led a unbelievable for a democratic country attempt not only to cover up the scandal, but also to persecute those who dared to contribute to its exposure. Politically and morally eliminate prosecutors, witnesses, journalists as collaborators and plotters.
Now that the verdict irrevocably reveals that there was no skeleton, the protected witnesses were credible, the prosecutors were impeccable and the journalists were innocent, do you have anything to say? Or will you continue to hide behind the lie?;
I have one statement to make: There is no such thing as a frame-up, even with the bull of justice. What is there? The failed attempt to cover up the scandal by talking about collusion, to set up special courts for your political opponents. There is the scandal that demands answers. Who was bribed? Who obstructed the judges? Who and why are they hiding the truth? Where did the huge undisclosed sums of money come from?;
The scandal you have tried to cover up demands answers. Tell Mr Samaras that we will go all the way, Mr Mitsotakis. Nothing will be left in the dark. There can be no compromise on transparency and justice.
Eurostat yesterday recorded a new inflation jump to 12%, 3.4% above the euro area average. The wave of inexactness, which you forgot to mention, is sweeping everything. Energy poverty is again plaguing the country, as it did in the previous term of office of the New Democracy.
Ο energy inflation is at 61% while the EU average is 39%. This 22% has your seal, Mr Mitsotakis, are the excess profits of the producers that you left if you did not guide with the PPC.
– Incomes are not enough for the necessities of the cost of living. More than 4 out of 10 households report that their monthly income is not sufficient for the month but for an average of 19 days and the situation is worsening.
- We are the country with the biggest housing crisis in the EU, 40% of the population spends over 50% of income on housing costs. The second worst country is Bulgaria with 17.5%.
Η pandemic is on the rise and the health budget reduced by €800 million.
In education the great purge for the sake of colleges was completed with 25,000 students last year and as many more this year being left out of higher education.
In insurance, aren't you ashamed?; You said you gave them retroactive payments, when you cheated them twice and three times. You had Mr. Petsas say that you should not appeal for the retroactive payments and now only the 300,000 who appealed will get them. Aren't you ashamed to accuse SYRIZA when you have cheated pensioners?; And lie about it, while the retroactive payments are the stolen goods of the Samaras government.
You took the pending pensions from 140,000 and you have taken the pending pensions to 400,000, you who advertised a pension in one day. Today you still have 340,000 pensions outstanding and the ones you take out, you take out with mistakes.
This is the truth that you are leaving behind, Mr Mitsotakis, and you are doing everything you can to hide it, to distort it.
– That's why you remembered 2015, your effort smells of defeatism and misery. You have nothing to say to the Greeks about today and tomorrow and you are resorting to yesterday.
– But even about yesterday, aren't you ashamed to speak as honorees?; For bankrupting the country twice? Who delivered a deficit of 15% in 2009 and led to the memoranda? Who left the country with empty coffers in 2014? That you broke everything? That you abolished the 13th and 14th pensions? For imposing the shameful sub-minimum wage for young people? For pushing unemployment to 28%? For imposing a hospital admission fee? And instead of being ashamed, you ask for change? Let us give you the change.
– You left the country bankrupt twice - once in 2009 and once in 2014 - and we handed it over to you outside the memorandum. We have delivered a regulated debt and we have a clear runway and low repayments on our debt, so sleep easy, because you've been eating off the shelf for three years and you have the nerve to talk.
- We received an average equivalent personal income of 8,879 euros and delivered in 2019 at 10,041 euros, we introduced the 13th pension, which you abolished for the second time. We received a welfare budget of 790 million euros and delivered 3.5 billion euros in 2019.
And most importantly, we took care of the security of the homeland.We gave away 37 billion euros to keep Greece out of danger.
– And what did you do for three years? The greatest looting of the 21st century, you distributed 7.5 billion. In direct commissions to your friends, millions of euros of public money to buy the allegiance of the media, while leaving the NHS without recruitment. You removed the 13th pension to fund 1 billion. The privatisation of supplementary insurance. You sold off the PPC in the energy crisis, we did not increase our bills by a single euro, and you blew all the households to give back to the obscenity cartels.
- Citizens are faced with double obscenity, the cartels and the state, which in these conditions of price squeeze €3.8 billion surplus in tax revenues, you are keeping the VAT and VAT high in order to promise today crumbs from the proceeds of this robbery.
Our conception of social policy is not a policy only for the lower strata, but for the great social majority, the working and middle classes, the young and the retired. Social policy for us is not a footnote or a chapter, it is the title of our policy book.
In three years your policies have left behind a wounded society.
– The party of 10 business groups and 3 fanzines and hundreds of party officials will be over. Security and justice will return to the country.
- Safety means the repeal of all the laws that gave birth to insecurity during Mitsotakis' three-year term. Means peace, stability and national foreign policy with an end to Greece's involvement in the war in Ukraine. Means Dialogue and an end to Turkish provocativeness, not with lectures but with effective protection of our national interests.
Security means fighting crime, front with organized crime that terrorizes the neighborhoods of Athens in plain sight, not of the invisible enemy that exists in demonstrations and student auditoriums. In the neighborhoods, where every day we have a murder of organized crime.
Safety is the tthe use of direct awards and restricted tenders, the independence of the judiciary and its fortification against extra-institutional interventions.
Safety is the reintroduction of the D in PPC, the strong role of the state as a buffer against energy poverty.
Security is the state's barrier against obscenity, the drastic reduction of electricity bills with caps on wholesale and retail. It is the the reduction of VAT on essentials, the reduction of the excise duty on fuel, the strengthening of control mechanisms and the dismantling of cartels.
Safety is a a new NHS that inspires confidence, with respect to those who are fighting the battle, with the recruitment of permanent staff to fill the gaps and an upgrade of the payroll.
Safety means good public schools and good universities, with an increase in the budget, new recruitment of teaching staff, not police officers, in universities.
Safety means a reliable pension system. The first act is the moral obligation to return the retroactive payments to those you have deceived, Mr Mitsotakis.
– Society cannot stand you any longer κ. Mr. Mitsotakis, three years is enough, it won't be seven.
The dilemma of the ballot box you are shaking is political change and nightmare end or nightmare without end.
You have no choice, stop plucking the daisy and declare today that the country will go to elections in September. No more rumours and impression games, no more leaks that trigger instability.
