On Saturday morning, the President of PASOK-Movement for Change, Nikos Androulakis, toured the market of Agios Dimitrios in Rhodes.
In his statements he noted, among other things:
“With the policies of New Democracy, oligopolies and middlemen are always strengthened. Pensioners, salaried workers, the average family, and the most vulnerable Greeks remain the losers.
New Democracy, through its choices, has created overperformance. With this overperformance that Kyriakos Mitsotakis advertises, Alexis Tsipras also agrees.
But where does this overperformance come from? From a healthy productive base? From competitiveness? From resilient growth? Of course not.
The overperformance is high prices and high indirect taxes. That is, daily difficulties and the high cost of living are turned into revenue for the state, and this is called overperformance.
That is why political change is needed. These daily difficulties, which are the product of political choices, must come to an end.
We are committed to a single consumer authority, which will check high prices at every link in the supply chain.
To a strong Competition Commission, which will impose rules on an unrestrained market.
To a reduction of the special consumption tax on fuels and energy and to a targeted reduction of VAT on basic goods.
On all these issues, I will immediately submit a topical question to the Prime Minister, so that he comes to Parliament and answers to the Greek people.
Because for seven years now he has been a traffic policeman for powerful economic interests.
Because for seven years now he has allowed powerful players in the market to put their hand deep into the pocket of the Greek people every day”.