"Every time we have the opportunity to meet with people, like today at the Anthoupolis People's Market, people carry a message of anguish. Precision saps the incomes of households and puts great pressure on businesses, especially small and medium-sized enterprises," said the General Secretary of the Central Committee of AKEL, Stefanos Stefanou, during his visit to the People's Market of Anthoupolis.
Stefanou indicated that "it is obvious that state assistance, state intervention is needed to help people cope with these very difficult days, the very difficult period we are in. The state has the potential to do this but the Anastasiades-Union government stubbornly refuses."
"So far," Stefanou continued, "the government has increased revenues, compared to what it budgeted, over a billion euros. A very large part of that billion comes from the increased revenues that the government has because of VAT. It makes sense. Increased prices, increased VAT."
"Unfortunately, however, the government, as part of its long-standing social callousness, is not helping people, not helping small and medium-sized businesses. It is characteristic that the recent statistics of the European Union rank Cyprus fourth from the bottom in terms of the intervention and assistance given by the state to households and businesses."
He also pointed out that "we are under no illusion that the government in the last months of its 10-year rule will help the people and that it will help the small and medium-sized enterprises. It has never done that. It is for this reason that this government should go away, that the Synagogue should go away from the power that has skyrocketed social and economic inequalities and that a President with a progressive program should come to the Presidency to face the difficulties and to put Cyprus back on the path of progress, prosperity and excellence."
"A President and a government that cares for the people and small and medium enterprises."
"A President and a government that cares for the people and small and medium enterprises. That President is Andreas Mavroyiannis", he concluded.
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