Alexis Tsipras: We are ready for elections

The president of SYRIZA-PS Alexis Tsipras states that he is ready for elections in his interview with “Avgi tis Kyriakis”, and lists the basic legislative initiatives of the next day.

He blames the Mitsotakis government for “the siege situation it has created” and adds: “that is why we prefer to resort to the popular crisis as soon as possible”. Mr. Tsipras also refers to the main priorities and the legislative initiatives that he will develop if he is elected: “We have already prepared the first legislative interventions… Abolition of anti-labor laws and support of work. Strict implementation of the eight-hour and experimental implementation of the 35-hour. “State of responsibility for supplementary insurance. Progressive reform in Education and Health”. Also “for the climate law, for the utilization of the resources of the Development Fund and the strengthening of the small and medium entrepreneurship, with the program Greece PLUS, for the write-off of part of the private pandemic debt, for the youth and the housing problem, for the “I assure you that we are more prepared than ever, more experienced, and more determined. And we know and we want and we can.”

To deal with accuracy

“With the election of the new government, we will increase the minimum wage to 800 euros, which will drag all the wage levels in the private sector. We will zero, or drastically reduce the debt of small and medium-sized enterprises,” he said. We will move to temporary measures to alleviate households and businesses for the duration of the crisis, such as lowering the VAT on fuel, the European Commission “At the same time, we will put a permanent and decisive end to the impunity of the cartels.”

“Selective state”

Criticizes the “staff state”: “… The point is that when they talk about a staff state they mean a selective state. their perception “. He accused the government of hating everything public as well as of a modern democratic state with social priorities, adding: “So our difference is deep, and clear. We believe in a strong and humane state next to the citizen, which ensures social protection, security, security.It protects the freedoms of the many and not the privileges of the few.

He also states that “the NSS, the health and life of the people, is for us a first, absolute and urgent priority. Our goal is not just to manage the current situation to close some holes, but to create the new NSS”.

For PPC, he states: “As far as PPC is concerned, our goal is to restore D, not only in its title but also in its operation. We will not accept Greece and its economy being held hostage by energy speculators.”

On the “leaks from Brussels”

He referred to the “leaks from Brussels for a government of cooperation according to the model of Italy”, clarifying that “in no case do these scenarios concern SYRIZA PS”. “Δεν Brussels is not the modern Palace. They can not shape political developments in any country without the verdict of the people. I understand the dissatisfaction of Brussels with the ineffectiveness of the Mitsotakis government, I also understand the widespread corruption, direct outsourcing, the distorted structure of the recovery fund plan that leaves the majority of small and medium-sized enterprises out of the nymphs and, above all, the inability to absorb Community funds on time. “The sovereign people. They decide both the governments and the prime ministers.”

For polls

Mr. Tsipras denies that the polls reflect the reality, citing the recent elections in Portugal and in particular about the percentages they give to SYRIZA, he states: “… There is an issue with the reliability of the measurements. And I am not referring here to public money, which Mr. Mitsotakis is invested from time to time in order to emerge as a popular winner. In this case, the safest criterion for the accuracy of the polls is always the ballot box. ”

To KINAL: Either with the Right or with the democratic faction

Regarding the KINAL poll, he states: “Let me have my doubts as to whether it is true that it attracts horizontal and equal number of voters from both parties, ND and SYRIZA. and Mr. Mitsotakis, I would accept without any fear a “competition of progress” with KINAL. that it was these collaborations that led this party to shrink and the country to tragedy… When an opposition party keeps equal distances from the government and the opposition, it favors the government… In any case I have said it before, it is not easy to keep equal distances from the Right and to want to express the Democratic faction at the same time. Either you will be with the Right or with the Democratic faction “.

The popular verdict will determine the developments

Regarding the post-election co-operation government, he said: “It will be the popular verdict that will determine the developments. SYRIZA’s clear lead in the elections is a basic condition for progressive governance and developments in favor of the social majority. The popular will will before each party the crucial question of governance to which it will be called upon to answer.

SYRIZA vision to become the most democratic party in Europe

He refers to his proposal for the election of president and Central Committee from the party base: “SYRIZA PS is not just a party of the modern left in Greece. It is a model party in Europe… So when one of our main identities is democracy, the power of the people, the unmediated expression of the citizens, their participation in making even the most difficult and marginal decisions, we can not degrade this in our internal operation, so my vision is to make SYRIZA PS the most to give a new meaning to participation and to the citizen’s relationship to politics, to the party member’s relationship to the party, not as applause and executors of leadership decisions but as co-makers of those decisions

To the remark that “a” star system “is being created in the party”, after noting that he respects the different point of view and is ready to exchange ideas, he replies: “… If it is a problem that the election to the governing bodies of our popular comrades or in the House of the popular candidates and not the capable ones, the answer to the problem is not the least democracy.I do not believe in the privilege of the few to choose with more correct criteria than the many who do not know.And if ‘they do not know’, it owes us It would be an exaggeration to say that this argument resembles that of the aristocracy who did not want the right to vote to become universal, because many did not know how to vote correctly, as the nobles who had until then knew this privilege “.

Source: AMPE