Nikos Androulakis toured Agrafa on Friday morning.
The first stop for the President of PASOK-Movement for Change was the Agrafa elementary school, which now has only a handful of students. Behind this number lie two of the country’s greatest challenges: the demographic crisis and the depopulation of rural areas.
Finally, Mr. Androulakis also visited the National Resistance Museum in Viniani.
Below is Mr. Androulakis’ statement:
We are at the Museum of Viniani, here in the proud Agrafa Mountains, where the epic of the national resistance was sealed. Here, where the first government of free Greece was formed.
In Evrytania, as well as in many other mountainous regions of Greece, there is a severe demographic crisis, one that is reaching the brink of collapse. Thousands of young people are choosing to migrate, either within the country or abroad. Production costs, a lack of infrastructure, issues related to the welfare state—public health, public education—as well as transportation networks, make their daily lives increasingly difficult.
For us, therefore, it is our duty to create a new regional development plan that will improve the lives of all Greeks, even in the most remote mountainous areas.
That is why, for PASOK, the vision and the struggle for political change are synonymous with a Greece of regional development. A Greece with hope and prospects for all Greeks.