The government is on the offensive after the AKEL Central Committee announced its decision to vote against the 2023 State Budget.
In a written statement, the Government Spokesperson notes that AKEL announced today that it will vote against the 2023 Budget, presenting its well-known dismissive and undocumented arguments.
Pelecanos stresses that "anything to the contrary would be a surprise after all. We have become accustomed to flattening criticism, to the nullification of what we have achieved as a country and as a society in recent years."
He stresses that AKEL still feels proud of the deficit budgets it submitted as a government and which led the country to disaster, while at the same time it will not vote for the 2023 budget which is objectively the most developmental and greenest ever submitted to the House of Representatives. "It is the budget with the biggest social footprint ever. The budget with the biggest welfare state, which leads to an even greater reduction of inequality in our country at the same time as public finances are being strengthened while growth exceeds even the most optimistic forecasts."
He notes that all this therefore does not satisfy AKEL and "reasonably" its Central Committee unanimously decided to vote against it.
"Perhaps AKEL knows better than the rating agencies, the European Central Bank, the European Commission and so on, which have given credit to the government for the economic policies it is pursuing," he concludes.
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