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SYRIZA President Alexis Tsipras expressed his assessment that the country faces a triple crisis (health, economic and national) at the same time that the government moves without a compass in an interview with Kontra television channel.
As the president of the Official Opposition used to say “We have a health crisis that, instead of alleviating, is intensifying. We have an economic crisis, the effects are visible to the average Greek, which is the result of the government’s inability to manage the effects of the health crisis.” And the fears for a security crisis in our region are increasing more and more, a great tension in the Greek-Turkish relations with the fear that the government will move there without a compass “.
In this climate, he continued, “Social indicators have already deteriorated dramatically,” he said, adding that the country and its citizens are “facing a very difficult autumn.” “Insecurity is widespread,” he said. “Even in the era of memoranda and economic asphyxia, insecurity of the Greek citizens.”
Referring to the government, he stressed that it cannot ignore this same feeling of insecurity of the citizenry and is constantly moving with communication inventions that last only a few hours.
Criticism of the -without measures- opening of borders
Specifically with regard to the health crisis or Alexis Tsipras criticized the government that did not require generalized health protocols at all gateways in the country. Instead, it noted that an economic logic prevailed in the opposite direction to that which prevailed – and rightly so – during the period in which the restrictive measures were imposed. He continued by saying that due to this government policy we are in the following paradox: “In the first period we sacrificed the economy to leave public health intact and in the second period we sacrificed public health and saved the economy. In the end, we were both in a negative balance. “.
He also highlighted that ““The sole objective and direction of the attitude of the prime minister and the government was to harvest political surpluses from the course of the pandemic and now that things are getting darker due to their own contradictions, regressions and decisions, they are blaming the citizen. This is not fair”. .
“The sacrifices of the citizens were wasted, back to zero”
When recording the great mistakes of the government, he said that these were the opening of tourism without a plan, the 85% fullness of ships, the non-increase of public transport routes, everything that happened with the airlines and that a unified strategy on that. on sanitary protocols and precautionary conditions. Then he stressed that “We are back to where we started and that everything we have achieved with great effort and sacrifice on the part of the people in three months for these policies that they have chosen has gone wrong and that now we are in danger of facing a health crisis without precedents. that we will not be able to face “.
Schools are opening, increasing the number of students per class
Regarding the upcoming school opening, Mr. Tsipras said that instead of going to a process with fewer students in the classroom “The only concern of the Minister of Education in our country was to put the eyebrows to the directors of schools, that is, of private education, and even to pass a bill in which he made the eyebrows – after all, they have admitted that they are sponsors of the New Democracy. And at the same time in this bill they increased the number of primary school students, from 22 to 25 “.. And he summarized it by emphasizing: “Then the pandemic arrives and the number of students is increased instead of reducing it”. She also accused the Minister of Education of playing with the intelligence of citizens and doing a creative accounting with the number of students in schools.
“When the citizen sees this, anger and antipolitical attitude grow inside him”, noticed the President of SYRIZA. At this point he expressed his fear that in Greece we may see a strengthening of the anti-political currents from which nothing can be expected through them.
Regarding the resilience of the Greek economy, after first noting that SYRIZA’s “We Stand Up” program was absolutely imperative, he referred to the EU escape clause, the existing reserve and low indebtedness due to the The ECB’s quantitative easing program. «So there are no excuses. The government had to make progress and interventions, it did not, now it will pay three times more, but even now it has to intervene with the firefighters to face the problems.. Otherwise, as you said, that is, if the government does not address the issues “We will meet in a winter of social hell”.
Interview in the main news bulletin of the television channel “Kontra”
Social indicators have already deteriorated drastically and I fear we are facing a very difficult autumn. Even in the era of memos and economic asphyxia, the feeling of insecurity of Greek citizens was not so widespread. The sole objective and direction of the attitude of the Prime Minister himself and the government was to reap the political surplus value of the course of the pandemic. Now that things are difficult, due to their own delay, they are putting the responsibility on the citizen. This is not honest. There are no excuses. The government had to make progress and interventions. He did not. But even now, you have to step in to fix the problems. Otherwise, we will find ourselves in a winter of social hell. Interview with the main newsletter of Kontra Channel television and with journalist Giorgos Meliggonis.
Posted by Alexis Tsipras on Monday, Aug 31, 2020
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