Mr Mavroyiannis' staff and AKEL have started personal attacks.
They accuse me of being paid by taxpayers to campaign.
Gentlemen of AKEL, others were paid to campaign by exhausting taxpayers' money, and when they had exhausted it, they burdened them with debts. They are the ones who blew the public coffers by handing out runaway benefits, which in times of growth doubled the public debt during their rule, bankrupted the country, excluded it from the markets and increased unemployment to 17%. They are the ones who allowed co-operativism to be plundered by the partisanship. And they were none other than the ministers and government of AKEL.
Unlike AKEL, we did not use taxpayers' money as a spoils of power. We delivered sound public finances despite billions of support to society and our fellow citizens during the recent economic crises. Something we have repeatedly been accused of by AKEL, which a few days later accuses us of the opposite, of parochialism! The oxymoron of AKEL's positions comes from their utter confusion to implement a serious economic programme and to understand basic economic concepts.
As a member of the government, as a politician and as Minister of Finance, it is my duty to take a political stance. I respond and will respond to AKEL on the disastrous economic policies it is proposing, trying once again to mock society. Political statements by Ministers are self-evident in all modern democracies and by all political staff. Of course, AKEL confirms that it fails to understand how modern democracies work. But it does not mean that it will succeed in silencing us.
(EP/EHRP)
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