"Stand on this platform and behave honourably: Resign, Mr Mitsotakis. Resign and call for elections." With this plea to Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Alexis Tsipras closed his speech on the budget in Parliament, accusing him of lying about the Tsiodras-Lytras report on mortality outside the intensive care unit and of policies of interest and diffusion.
t№6 Alexis Tsipras asked the Prime Minister "to give the people's verdict the opportunity to provide a way out. You have failed. You are inadequate and dangerous. Give the Greek people the right to judge you so that the country can escape."t№8 Earlier, Alexis Tsipras accused Kyriakos Mitsotakis of lying in the case of the two scientists' research that showed that the mortality of patients with Covid 19 is increased by 87% outside the ICU. As he said, addressing the Prime Minister, "you allegedly did not receive knowledge of the scientific study" while "you stated in an interview that Mr. Tsiodras informs you 3 times a week?" He asked rhetorically, "Did he not tell you that we are losing patients when we could have saved them?" As Alexis Tsipras noted, "if you didn't know, you should resign for criminal and dangerous negligence," but "if you did know, you should resign for dangerous cynicism."
t№10 The SYRIZA president also noted that "you lied about the patients outside the ICU. You implied the tragic, the frivolous, the unscientific and dangerous, ultimately the immoral that it is the same to be intubated in an ICU and to be intubated on a ranch. And you said you have no evidence. That no research proves it. When you had in your hands the revealing research of your closest advisor. Honestly, aren't you ashamed? Are you not ashamed to lie to the Greek people?". Overall, he pointed out that "your responsibilities are criminal, but the lie that accompanies them is even more criminal."t№12 Alexis Tsipras stressed that only the case of the Tsiodra-Lytras report "would be enough for any other European government to resign." Explaining his demand for immediate elections, the SYRIZA president said: "Can anyone expect anything better from you and your government? Our answer is clear: There is no hope that you will change." Thus, he noted, "we have a duty not to let you continue this work." He stressed that "you took advantage of the time credit given to you by the opposition" and "used it to set up an unprecedented 4.9 billion direct award scheme with companies of friends". He noted that "never before in the country has there been such an uncontrollable difference" adding the phrase "as the late Fofi Gennimata said from this podium: Maximou S.A."
t№14"Mitsotakis is morally bankrupt"
t№17"Unfortunately, you are bankrupt. You are morally bankrupt, Mr Mitsotakis," the SYRIZA president said at the beginning of his speech, criticizing the prime minister for his choice to follow the path of political exploitation of the tragic situation for the country. He said "your big problem is not your managerial incompetence and that you became an accelerator of the crises you managed" but "is that your government and you personally at the time of the crisis of suffering and health tragedy attempted to speculate politically". He noted that the government built its narrative "on lies and propaganda" stressing that "the king is naked and morally fallen" at the same time "the reality is painful for the vast majority of society."
t№21 With the right or the progressive party?t№23Alexis Tsipras referred extensively to the debate in Europe about changes in the way of economic governance. He even sent a message to the KIN.AL, saying that it raises specific dilemmas. As he said, addressing the government "you follow the old recipes and make agreements with private interests at the expense of the public". Emphasizing that "while the steering wheel of Europe has changed hands today, you insist on the destructive recipes of yesterday" and thus "Greece remains the rearguard of maintenance by a government hostile to the welfare state". He pointed out - addressing the government - that "you belong to a political family that has guided Europe for the past 15 years, almost sleepwalking. You insist on the bankrupt and destructive recipes of yesterday. Alexis Tsipras pointed out that the "dilemma of supporting political areas and parties" arises and poses the question: "With the progressive party that can pave the way for social justice or with the right-wing of the client state?"
t№26Unnecessary fiscal adjustment
t№29The SYRIZA president stressed that the answer to this dilemma is reflected in the budget you have submitted. He pointed out that it provides for unnecessary fiscal adjustment while all of Europe is under an escape clause. You pledged in a year of pandemic that Greece, with so many problems, would be the country that would make the biggest fiscal adjustment in the whole of Europe: Nine points. He asked rhetorically who forced you; noting that Samaras said it was the Troika. What do you have?t№32Zero spending on accuracy
t№35Alexis Tsipras commented on leaks of additional announcements by Kyriakos Mitsotakis on accuracy measures. He said, addressing the prime minister, that you will do this "not to address the crisis of accuracy but to give the bulletins something to say about you." But - he commented - "what does the budget provide? Zero spending on household support. No support for people, for professionals, for small and medium-sized businesses."
t№38Reduction in health spendingt№41The SYRIZA president referred to the reduction in spending on the NHS, saying that "you are downgrading health care because you intend to strengthen private health care in the future." He noted that "you handed us the public hospitals in 2015 in total bankruptcy with a 735 million deficit, with a 5 euro barrier, and you have the nerve to wag your finger at us." He went on to say: "What have we delivered to you? Hospitals with a 235 million surplus" even though the country was under the memorandum regime.
t№44Our first bill will bring 800 euro minimum wage
t№47Alexis Tsipras reiterated SYRIZA's proposal to raise the minimum wage by 800 euros, stressing that "we are committed that the first bill of the progressive government that the country needs will be the increase of the minimum wage of euros and the cancellation of the pandemic debt." On this issue he challenged the government, "Was it not you who during the election promised more and better jobs? You tell us that we have very high growth rates. Why don't you raise the minimum wage?" he asked rhetorically, noting that "you have commitments with big interests" and pointing out that "small and medium-sized businesses will not be affected by the minimum wage."t№50 At the same time, the SYRIZA president referred to social inequalities in Greece. He said that "in the current budget, numbers and growth rates are prospering", "our difference is that we do not want only numbers to prosper but also people to prosper". He stressed that according to a prestigious international survey in Greece "the wage-earning population has more debt than property". So - he noted - "it is vital to mitigate inequalities. To restore at least a basic social justice."t№52 Source.
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