With consistency towards the people, AKEL voted against the last budget of the outgoing government of Anastasiades-Association[/B], said the party's Parliamentary Representative, George Loukaides after the end of the three-day plenary session for the adoption of the state budget for 2023.
The reasons for the vote against, he said, have to do with the negative judgment of this government's policies over the years on almost all issues and policy areas.
Unfortunately, as AKEL documented from the floor of the Parliament, he continued, through the speeches of its MPs, as the citizens themselves feel things, when both in the polls and in the contact they have with them they judge this government negatively or very negatively in excess of 70%, this happens for very specific reasons, he said.
"Because unfortunately we are dealing with a government that serves big private interests primarily at the expense of the many weak. We are dealing with a government with a very negative performance that keeps our country at the tail end in terms of the wage cut that we had in 2021, the reduction in the share of wages in the country's GNI at a time when the share of profits has increased significantly," he added.
The government, he noted. It is leaving us with a legacy of being a champion in increasing corruption in Europe, with its political practices it has destroyed the institutions, it has the worst performance in Europe in terms of environmental protection, research and development, the digital transformation of society, it has no social sensitivity.
"For these and many other reasons, AKEL has voted against the budget."
"For these and many other reasons, AKEL has voted against the budget. We look forward to a new era in our country through the progressive change that can and will come, in February 2023, so that we have both a budget and an economic and social policy that serves the people, society, the many and not the few," he concluded.
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