N. Iliopoulos: When the country faces a million dead, the responsibility has a name: Kyriakos Mitsotakis

“The reason why the Mitsotakis government lied that it did not know the data on mortality outside the ICU, is the same reason why it claims that we are supposedly finished with the pandemic. It does not want to give money for the NSS support” he underlined the spokesperson of SYRIZA-PS Nassos Iliopoulos. “People do not care who knew and who” shows “the Maximos Palace. It does not matter if Kikilias and Skertsos are fighting over who had the study of Messrs. Tsiodra-Lytra. “The responsibility has a name: Kyriakos Mitsotakis”, he stressed, speaking on the Flash FM radio station in Thessaloniki.

“The prime minister must apologize for the thousands of our fellow citizens who lost their lives without the possibility of decent access to care. The Tsiodra-Lytra study tells us not only the mortality rate outside the ICU, but also that 38.5% of deaths The pandemic could have been avoided if the situation in the NSS had been different. About 6.5 thousand of our fellow citizens lost the battle in a single bed or at home. Our country is twice above the European average in terms of losses “And it is vulgar on the part of Mr. Mitsotakis to say that he had no data”, pointed out N. Iliopoulos.

Reiterating the request of Alexis Tsipras from the podium of the Summit of European Socialists for the Prime Minister to apologize, since “in any other EU country, respectively, the Prime Minister would have publicly apologized or resigned”, the SYRIZA-PS spokesman criticized and the budget to be voted on, which is being discussed in Parliament. “The government is cutting 820 million euros from the Ministry of Health. This budget is based on the narration of Mr. Mitsotakis that we are supposedly reaching the end of the pandemic – against the forecasts of the experts – and is doing nothing to shield the security of society against “not even in the face of precision,” he said, adding:

“In the face of its cuts, the government is talking about emergency spending on the pandemic. But even on emergency spending, the corresponding budget for 2022 is 730 million euros when in 2021 it was 1.2 billion euros.”

Insisting, meanwhile, on the immediate need to increase the minimum wage, N. Iliopoulos reminded that in the midst of a pandemic, only Greece and Estonia throughout the EU did not increase the minimum wage. “This is a socially just and sustainable measure. This has been proven in practice since when in 2012 the minimum wage was reduced by 23% and the minimum wage was introduced by 32% for those under 25, and the biggest recession was an explosion of unemployment. When “But in 2018, the salary of the SYRIZA government was increased and the minimum wage was abolished, and the demand improved and the public revenues increased, and the revenues of the social security institutions”, he underlined.

Finally, he referred to the large increases in gas, by 180%, in electricity by 37%, and in heating oil by 45.2%, while describing it as a “great missed opportunity for the country and the Recovery Fund since, under the responsibility of the government, it failed to absorb only 150 million euros from the 2.6 billion euros it had budgeted for 2021 “.

Source: AMPE