ATHENS, Mar 17 — RA NewsThe opposition parliamentary parties criticized the televised address of Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on measures to support the population in connection with rising prices, saying that the measures are insufficient, and the prime minister is trying to blame his failure in politics on the Ukrainian crisis. Mitsotakis said that support of 1.1 is planned billion dollars, which will make life easier for 3.2 million vulnerable citizens, as well as households with an income of up to 30 thousand euros per year. The measures are aimed at supporting the most vulnerable and the middle class. The Prime Minister of Greece linked the rise in prices with Russia's special operation in Ukraine.The outgoing US ambassador to Greece promised Washington's support to Athens «Once again, the prime minister appeared with a statement to relieve himself of any responsibility for the social crisis. Blaming the problem of explosive high prices solely on external factors and the war in Ukraine, he tried to convince citizens that that the wave of rising prices that has swept over them since the summer has appeared only in the last three weeks, that is, to convince them that they did not spend the winter in frozen apartments, that they were not able to pay their bills and basic needs for months. Mr. Mitsotakis, the townspeople do not live for such a long time and this is their fantasy,” the press service of the largest opposition party, SYRIZA-Progressive Alliance, said in a statement. As the opposition notes, the prime minister did not say a word about limiting the excess profits of cartels and energy companies. «True to the habit of narcissism, he praised himself for his letter to the EU, although he did not take major measures inside the country he rules,» the statement said. jpg» />The state television and radio union of Greece condemned the ban of RT and Sputnik in the EUThe party recalls that Mitsotakis himself cut the additional pension for low-income pensioners introduced by SYRIZA, with a total annual budget of 900 million euros. «Society no longer tolerates ridicule. Measures that should have been taken a few months ago: lowering VAT on fuel, a ceiling on electricity and gas tariffs, punishing speculation, lowering VAT on basic necessities, increasing the minimum wage to 800 euros,» The Greek Communist Party (KKE) said that Mitsotakis was mocking the relief measures at a time when the factors and causes that led to energy poverty, rising prices and expensiveness «live and reign». «No measure that is part of this strategy will be able to offset even a small part of the significant price increases resulting from the EU's energy liberalization policy, the abandonment of lignite and energy competition conducted by the Greek governments and for which the people pay very dearly,» — 
The Communist Party of Greece urged to stop sending weapons to Ukraine «The minimum at the moment to make life easier for workers and the masses is the abolition of VAT and excise taxes on fuel and other consumer goods, wage increases, effective measures to protect the self-employed, farmers and the unemployed. The real solution is in the struggle for the systematic use of all the country's energy resources (lignite, hydrocarbons, geothermal, renewable energy, etc.) for the benefit of people's needs, so that energy ceases to be a commodity,» the party said. The Movement for Change (KINAL) stated that government measures are taken very late and not enough to overcome the adverse effects of the energy crisis. It proposes taxing excess profits of electricity producers, lowering VAT on basic consumer goods, lowering VAT on fuel, and raising the minimum wage.The Prime Minister of Greece reacted to Russia's recognition of the DPR and the LPR The Greek Solution party said that the statement read by the Prime Minister of Greece proves that neither he nor the government now believe what they themselves say, and the people have long ceased to trust them. «We have again heard the same bankrupt recipe with benefits (i.e. loans), which means new debts for Greece and the Greeks. Mr. Mitsotakis, who «told» us that he was worried about the «populist cry» of the opposition, let him at least listen to the cry of the suffering Greeks The prime minister and the government must understand that beyond the tearful (writer-written) speeches, there is a dramatic economic reality that the Greeks are experiencing that has a culprit named: Kyriakos Mitsotakis and the New Democracy, the statement says. that Mitsotakis every day “shows his talent for doing exactly the opposite of what the public interest requires.” “When the high cost of essential goods a year before the war in Ukraine, the disadvantaged need a constant increase in their meager incomes. What does Mr. Mitsotakis do? Announces an extraordinary benefit, that is, a tip!» — said MERA25. automatic indexation of the minimum wage and benefits, setting the maximum price for energy tariffs. «We know that your talent for doing the opposite of what benefits society makes you so likable in the oligarchy. Just as over the past 18 months you have distributed more than 1 billion euros to Fraport, Aegean, Energean, Eleftherios Venizelos Airport, so now behind the 1 billion euros that you supposedly have to protect the vulnerable from the high cost, there is the same desire to keep in the ability of the oligarchs to make money on the crisis,» the statement says. The rise in prices in Greece began in the summer, all essential goods rose in price, and electricity tariffs rose.
