The central deficit of this budget too is the lack of vision, AKEL MP Aristos Damianou said during his speech in Parliament on the 2022 state budget.
Mr. Damianou said that the budget is "dry, administrative, without long-term planning, loaded with the expediencies of a party that wants to remain clinging to power" and added that "AKEL will vote against the budget of the Anastasiades-Syarmos government because the country needs another course, a real change in policies, priorities, style and ethos of governance".
He said that "never before have citizens experienced such deficits and deadlocks as in the last almost nine years" and added, among other things, "the absence of a social vision and, on the opposite side, the presence of corruption, the absence of sustainable and green development and on the opposite side the presence of predatory policies" and "the absence of a proposal for a way out of the harsh impasse on the Cyprus problem caused by the occupying power and its unacceptable and dangerous positions but on the opposite side the presence of expediency, experimentation and dangerous flirtations with a two-state solution".
He also said that the amendments tabled by AKEL aim, among other things, "at partially addressing unpopular policies, abuses and waste and better parliamentary control" and "cutting off the funds that promote privatisations".
Replying to the President of DISY, Mr. Damianou asked what bills DISY brought to make Cyta what it is today and added that in 2001 as Minister of Transport, "Averof Neophytou came to the office of the Speaker of the Parliament who submitted the bill that provides for the change of the operating framework of ATHK and its transformation into a limited liability company".
He also said that there are currently 52,500 civil servants in the Government and 69,757 in the General Government, while Neophytou spoke of only 48,000.
Damianou said that Neophytou said in 2011 that the public debt is €10,625 million "a debt that we pass on to our children", adding that "today the debt is €25 billion."</B-8
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