One of the most heated debate sessions / Mitsotakis announces new financial measures

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis: I want to announce today 3 new additional measures for businesses and consumers. 1. Additional increase of state aid for electricity tariffs for the month of December. 2. Increase the offer for the purchase of natural gas by 40% for this month.3. Coverage of most of the costs on energy tariffs to farmers from August to December.

The total cost of aid measures, according to Mitsotakis is 1.35 billion euros, while he stressed that even this difficult year Greece has had the third highest economic growth in the EU at 6.9%. Meanwhile, the Mitsotakis government is under pressure after the publication of a study, which highlights the weaknesses and non-functioning of the health system and intubation rooms, resulting in increased mortality of critically ill patients from Covid-19, and therefore the leader of the opposition Alexis Tsipras Strict criticism, among other things, for pandemic management has called for early elections.

Syriza leader Alexis Tsipras: Resign and announce elections, give the popular decision a chance to find a way out! Here is the moment! “We ask you to give a solution, because you failed. You are inappropriate and dangerous, you are a guilty government.”
Meanwhile, inflation in Greece recorded a record of the last decade, going to November at 4.8% with an upward trend in December.

There is also an explosive increase in prices according to the National Institute of Statistics of a range of products and services such as natural gas that has increased by 180.09% compared to a year ago, heating oil by 45.2%, other fuels by 24, 9%, electricity increased by 37.8% and all this has led to a large increase in prices of food basket products.

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