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SYRIZA’s president presented a package of measures for society from the podium of the Thessaloniki Helexpo Forum, while not wasting the opportunity to launch a fierce attack on the Mitsotakis government. “Now it comes with virtual reality,” he said, emphasizing that Greek women and men want what is simple: a life of security in a society of justice.
SYRIZA’s alternative plan to deal with the crisis and its consequences was presented in Thessaloniki, within the Helexpo Forum in Thessaloniki, by party chairman Alexis Tsipras.
This is a plan that focuses on social groups that have been affected and are still being severely affected by the effects of the pandemic.
The former prime minister presented a package of concrete and immediate measures, mainly of a permanent nature, for the rescue of the economy, workers and small and medium-sized enterprises, but also for the strong support of the welfare state.
Specifically, from the podium of the Thessaloniki Helexpo Forum, Al. Tsipras announced eleven emergency measures, “a plan that we would implement immediately the day after taking over the governance of the place.” A plan to be implemented tomorrow morning. “
Eleven emergency meters
Measure one:
Strengthening the SNA directly with 15,000 permanent hires.
Strengthen the country’s first line of defense against the pandemic.
Second measure:
Strengthen public schools immediately, with 15,000 permanent teachers.
Facilitate educational work and not make our children a stacked lesson in classes of 26-27 people.
Measure three:
Subsidize work while the crisis lasts.
Our proposal includes coverage by the state of all insurance contributions and 40% of employees’ salary, with the obligation to pay the remaining 60% of salary costs by the company.
Fourth measure:
Emergency income for those who have been financially affected by the pandemic, while the crisis lasts.
€ 400 for the first adult member of the household, € 200 for each additional adult member and € 100 for each child.
These revenues will cover those citizens who saw their income decrease due to the pandemic, actively supporting not only the unemployed, seasonal workers and cultural workers, but also the self-employed and self-employed affected.
Measure five:
Subsidies to companies
All those indirectly or directly affected, self-employed and companies will have access to a non-refundable aid of 2,000 euros per employee, with a maximum aid per company of 100,000 euros, with the sole criterion of maintaining jobs and labor relations.
Sixth measure:
VAT reduction on catering from 13% to 6%, while the crisis lasts.
Seventh measure:
Subsidy of 40% of the rent of the affected companies, while the crisis lasts.
Because for most small businesses hit by the burden of rent it is a matter of survival.
Our proposal benefits these businesses but the owners do not see a reduction in their income.
Measure eight:
Refund to farmers of the special tax on oil. A measure that will reduce production costs and give encouragement to thousands of producers in the primary sector.
Ninth measure:
Permanent suppression of the solidarity contribution for all income up to € 40,000 and reduction of rental rates from € 40,000 to € 65,000.
Obviously in our plan this reduction concerns both retirees and civil servants and does not proceed to unthinkable exclusions that mobilize the social automation of yesteryear.
Measure ten:
Permanent abolition of the feat rate.
A measure that will notably relieve companies, freelancers and blockchain workers.
And finally Measure 11:
Permanent reduction of the tax advance to 50%.
A permanent measure that will offer significant relief to all companies and freelancers.
Six parallel crises
Alexis Tsipras began his speech by expressing his sincere condolences to the human beings who were lost by the floods and his support for fellow citizens whose properties were destroyed.
SYRIZA’s president harshly criticized Mr. Mitsotakis for the Prespa Agreement, accusing him of “deception” that “now all Greeks know.”
He blamed the government at large for “misleading” people with what they said about the economy, which brought the recession before the pandemic and afterwards “despite full funding and fiscal freedom,” “they did nothing substantial to contain the recession. ” ».
Alabama. Tsipras speaks of six parallel crises and concludes that “14 months after her election, this government is evolving into a great fraud, which is revealed every day.”
- Health crisis
He criticized the government for “wasting the time that society has earned” and thus the crisis worsens, which instead of ICU and medical personnel “distributed money from the State to the media to praise it.”
- Economic crisis
“For months, the government has left workers and companies at their mercy, at a time when the market has dried up, the locks have started, tourism and restaurants are collapsing,” at a time when Mitsotakis is fighting to put extreme neoliberal ideologies to the maximum ”, deregulation of work.
- Crisis of democracy
“The opposition is silenced, every different point of view is buried, whoever dares to question the virtual reality of the government’s narrative is baptized as irresponsible, populist and a liar,” he commented.
He said judges were being prosecuted “for investigating scandals involving ruling party officials,” that ministers “publicly apologized to publishers” and spoke of “direct assignments of public works to emperors.”
- Social crisis
“Inequalities are growing, the new generation is being baptized irresponsibly and marginalized, the state is becoming the organizer of social automation,” “conspiracy theorists, denial of science, are resurfacing along with the neo-Nazi criminals. “
He said the government is moving towards Turkey “without a strategy, leaving behind what we have built for 4.5 years.” “Without a clear compass for dialogue and The Hague,” he said, “without red lines in the defense of our sovereign rights, without a role in the Euro-Turkish dialogue and without our allies rallied around the threat of sanctions, without say “truth for the people, trapped in their internal contradictions that they try to hide behind incredible verbal tricks.”
In addition, he accused the government that instead of dynamically putting Europe before its responsibilities, it accepts the transformation of our islands into warehouses of souls.
Three assumptions
Alexis Tsipras from Thessaloniki said that “now it comes with virtual reality” and stressed that what Greek men and women want is simple. A life of security in a society with justice: “Reduce flagrant social inequalities. Return the feeling of security to work. So that the new generation of this place has a future and a perspective ”.
In another part of his speech, the SYRIZA president highlighted that the pandemic showed the limits of “a model that condemned and devalued state intervention and praised private initiative” and identified three assumptions as “the basis of any sustainable plan to rebuild the Greek economy and society “. ».
Particularly:
The first admission must be that the era of budget suffocation and harsh austerity is over. She stressed that in the debate that will open in the EU, Greece must have a government that plays a leading role in favor of a new economic policy aimed at sustainable and equitable development, and not return to the same dead ends.
Second assumption that the economy cannot function without high public spending and without public financing tools. He noted that banks do not adequately finance small and medium-sized enterprises, accusing the government of supporting and facilitating a policy of exclusion. He stressed that it is a priority for SYRIZA to change the law on the HFSF and the State as a key shareholder to have a decisive – decisive role in the strategic decisions of systemic banks, and to use its shares in at least one of the systemic banks to have absolute management control, so that in combination with the Public Development Bank they impose transparency and facilitate the provision of liquidity.
A third assumption concerns the heavy legacy of particularly high private debt. He criticized the government’s new bankruptcy law as not just a “second chance,” noting that radical solutions were needed. In this context of private debt restructuring, in addition to individual facilities, debt relief is a realistic and necessary solution for households and companies.
