The aim of the New Democracy government is for collective wealth to become individual prosperity, said Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, addressing citizens in Katerini, and called on those who agree with most of what he says to trust it again in the 2027 elections.
Mr. Mitsotakis pointed out the danger of unchecked handout politics ahead of the elections, and observed: "It is easy for me to open the purse. I will not do it because the priority is to build on the progress we have achieved and to forge the relationship of trust we have built. There is a danger of unchecked handout politics ahead of elections. We must describe the following: how collective wealth will become individual prosperity".
"And now that we are faced with an energy crisis how responsible our policy is to keep reserves in order to support society. I have committed that we will exhaust all margins to support society in the face of a difficult winter that is coming.
And to the businesses that say help us with our debts, we responded to the request of the small and medium-sized businesses of the commercial sector. However, we know what our limits are," he noted.
He referred to the 52nd anniversary of the founding of New Democracy and stressed: "In two days we celebrate our 52nd birthday. Of the party that was born from the Macedonian Constantine Karamanlis. Why has this party shown that it has endurance? Because it always adapted to the demands of the times and remains the great popular party that puts the interest of the Greeks first and has the ability to make experience a force for change and progress".
"Without political stability there is no economic progress, we cannot plan a future as we envision it," Mr. Mitsotakis said and spoke about the situation Greece is in today in relation to other European countries as well.
"In Europe we can shape not only a national but a European agenda. They mocked us for "blue letters". It is those same "blue letters" that secured for us the money from the Recovery Fund, the first Covid certificate, and for Europe to change its migration policy.
Today France is in the midst of political turmoil. The term of a longstanding friend of Greece, Macron, is ending. France's borrowing rate is at 4.9% and Greece's at 4.5%. We borrow more cheaply than France and Italy. The markets recognize in this government that it has a plan, a program and knows how to lead the homeland through troubled waters and that we will prioritize fiscal stability as the foundation on which we build our economic policy," he underlined.
SOURCE: ANA