Opposition leader Androulakis promises wholesale reforms, if elected

Opposition person Nikos Androulakis, caput of the Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK) promised wholesale alteration successful a speech astatine the Thessaloniki International Fair Saturday.

The absorption person outlined 5 top priorities arsenic portion of his vision, which helium called the New European Convergence:

● Demographic Renaissance, aiming to stabilize the colonisation and its much balanced organisation successful the portion successful the adjacent 10 years.

● Productivity Recovery: a resilient and competitory economy, aiming to execute labour productivity reaching 75% of the European mean successful ten years, from 56% today.

● Rising surviving standards, aiming to scope 80% of the European mean successful a decade.

● Reducing inequalities and entree for each to the welfare state, aiming to trim the poorness complaint by 6 percent points successful 5 years, successful bid to attack the European average.

● Decent Work for All – fairer organisation of wealth, aiming to summation the stock of wages successful GDP by astatine slightest 1% per year for the adjacent 5 years.

“Elections are a one-way street and PASOK is the lone alternate enactment that has a developed program”, Androulakis declared and pledged that “I will bash everything successful my powerfulness to marque everyone’s beingness better”.

“Our programme does not see piecemeal measures with an oculus connected polls, but measurable goals to amended the prime of beingness of each citizen. It was not prepared by connection experts, but by society itself. Tonight, from the podium of the 89th Thessaloniki International Fair, we contiguous to the Greek radical our ain plan. A program for the Greece of the adjacent decade,” Androulakis said.

The absorption person said the six-year regularisation by blimpish New Democracy has led to “dead ends for wide κοινωνικά strata…produce(d) inequalities, squander(ed) the country’s opportunities and is mired successful scandals and corruption.”

Under the Mitsotakis government, Androulakis said, “income is being evaporated by ostentation and cartels”, families wage retired of their pouch for wellness attraction and education, labour rights person eroded and institutions devalued.

Androulakis placed peculiar accent connected tackling the country’s debased birthrate, noting that “5% of schools are closing this year” arsenic a result. His proposals to reverse it see “creating much full-day nurseries from the Public Investment Program”; committedness “to a escaped familial worldly attraction programme and determination fertility centers”; eliminating “VAT connected basal babe items and goods, such arsenic beverage pulverization and diapers”; a important chopped successful spot tax for ample families, that would beryllium arsenic overmuch arsenic 75% connected the archetypal 100 square meters of their residences; and a tax connected “the excess profits of vigor companies and banks under a special regime, so that the corresponding excess income goes to a special Fund for Demography.”

Androulakis besides projected the freezing connected the Golden Visa programme providing incentives for foreigners to put successful property. “(B)ut we spell 1 step further: We are tightening the (legal) model for controlling the acquisition and merchantability of existent estate…The connection is clear: Greece is not for sale! We will not go tenants of foreigners successful our land!”

In the realm of vigor security, Androulakis chastized the authorities for getting free of the inexpensive but highly polluting brownish ember (lignite) saying it deed producing communities and importantly raised the terms of electricity. He besides noted that a ample portion of energy accumulation from renewable vigor sources islost owed to deficiency of storage facilities and inadequate connections to the powerfulness grid.

“The abandonment of the (grid) is much than obvious. Unmaintained energy poles are liable for galore fires each year. Power outages (cost) €400 million. With PASOK, this enactment will stop. The State still holds a important percent (35.3%) successful the (Public Power Corporation’s) stock capital. PPC indispensable absorption connected providing inexpensive electricity, reducing costs for households and businesses.”

In the farming assemblage “the immense contented of the shortage of workplace workers remains,” Androulakis said. “We request an migration argumentation that will absorption connected the triptych: control-apprenticeship-integration,” helium added.

On the economy, Androulakis said that the changes successful tax brackets announced by PM Mitsotakis past Saturday are not capable and that their indexation to ostentation is needed. He presented Portugal arsenic an illustration to beryllium followed. He besides projected cutting VAT connected basal goods.

“We want a marketplace with rules, not with oligopolies. We are putting a stop to the 4 large oligopolies, arsenic identified by the Bank of Greece. Banks, energy, food, health. Oligopolies that person grown gigantic during the days of this government. Inflation successful Greece continues to transcend the European mean by 50%. The mean national feels unprotected against the unruliness of the market. We respond with legislative initiatives that strike astatine almighty interests,” such arsenic an bonzer levy connected banks’ excess profits, a stronger Single Consumer Authority and Competition Commission and the reinstatement of a corporate labour statement connected wages. Also, the reinstatement of the so-called 13th wage (end-of-year bonus) for civilian servants, eliminated during the fiscal situation of the 2010s.