The Presidential Office[/B] comes back at AKEL commenting on the decision to vote against the 2023 budget.
In a written statement, the Government Spokesperson says that AKEL, with the unanimous decision of its Central Committee to vote against the 2023 budget, once again reminds us that nothing has been taught to them by their dismal failure to govern the country.
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- AKEL will vote against the State Budget. "It is positive that it is the last one of the Synergy government."
As Pelecanos says, "the Workers' Party of the Working People has plunged the workers it appeals to into disrepute. They received unemployment of 3.9% and delivered unemployment that reached 17%. They sent tens of thousands of families to social groceries, but today they talk about social inequalities, when the relevant indicators show that today almost half of our fellow citizens are at risk of deprivation compared to 2013."
He adds that they react when they are told that their obsessive adherence to failed doctrines led to the disaster.
"But we can remind them what their own ministers used to say."
"But we can remind them what their own ministers used to say. Mr Charilaos Stavrakis, the first of AKEL's three banker Finance Ministers, said he was under pressure from the President of the Republic and members of the Cabinet to agree to spending beyond the state's means. Compare this approach with the government's decision today to refuse to grant requests of a pre-election nature.
Mr Kiki Kazamias, the 2nd banker Finance Minister, had said that he found the economy in dire straits when he took over and that there was a risk of a default.
Compare again the period when we were in danger of default with the current situation, where the government is not only meeting all its financial and borrowing needs, but has projected to meet them for at least the next year.
[BR][BR]Finally, AKEL's 3rd Banker Finance Minister, Mr. Vassos Siarlis, had stated that "the state's finances were in a bad state long before the Greek bonds were written down, and strongly criticised the indecisiveness of the AKEL government".
At the same time, he adds, all this is reminded by yesterday's unanimous decision of the Central Committee of AKEL to vote against the 2013 budget, "the budget that delivers to the next government healthy public finances and huge growth prospects; a budget increased by 500 million euros compared to the previous year. A budget that can objectively be described as the first truly "green" budget that leads to the digital transformation of the country, while demonstrating a sensitivity to issues of social cohesion and support for our most vulnerable citizens that is unprecedented for our country," he concludes.
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