Papageorgiou: The government leaves the problems until the end and then runs after itself –

“The government leaves the problems until the end and then runs after itself”, the press representative of SYRIZA-PS, Pausanias Papageorgiou, said in his statements to OPEN.

In particular, he said: “The current government is not a government that was elected yesterday. What does this mean? That some of the problems she is trying to solve are problems of her own making. She cannot, on the one hand, talk about a non-partisan regime, especially in ASEP, and not speed up procedures, when she herself has been delayed for an entire period of government, has entered the second and still has not completed what she needs. What does he do? It is running behind itself to prevent events that are disastrous for the State, but not with solutions that will be permanent to correct the needs and cover them”.

He cited the Ministry of Education as an example: “You know where the money comes from, you know that it is European funds, which in fact with great tactic the Greek state succeeds and uses to hire deputies. You know the possibilities aren’t there – and where does the government go? To reduce the classes and departments, because it does not have corresponding teachers to cover, to make it possible for there to be people who need parallel support, more than 2 in a department, and it becomes a chaotic situation. So it’s a fire measure where a huge fire has caught. And unfortunately this government, what it did in Civil Protection, letting the fire reach the sea to be extinguished, is also doing it in its legislative tactics: It leaves the problem until the end and then runs after itself in case it catches up and save something”.

Regarding Immigration, he argued that “the management is not better” during the ND days, but “inflows were smaller throughout” and added:

“The increasing inflows will also increase those in Greece. What is being done now to address this problem? There is nothing going on that will definitely deal with it. But what can be seen, at least from the meetings of the prime minister, at the top level, and the statements he made from Brussels, is that he does not see the negatives, issues and solutions that other countries, such as Italy, follow. It puts us in a very difficult position in relation to whether Greece is ready to accept and deal with the problem or not…And Italy’s solutions cannot be applied, neither in Italy nor in Greece.”

To the journalistic remark that in Rhodes there are 600 refugees on the street and the problem has not been solved, Mr. Papageorgiou replied: “Why has no one taken care of it.”

Regarding Novartis and Alexis Tsipras’ previous statements, he said that “we could certainly say what he has already said publicly: that if a preliminary investigation committee had been held at that time, many would have been in a worse position because they would have been charged with very specific charges in the Judiciary and some others would be in this regime where they are perhaps even today, acquitted” and he continued: “So there is definitely a criticism of us. But it is self-critical. We’ve already said it. Things could have been done more correctly in terms of communication, but also in terms of the investigation, with a preliminary investigation then. Now we are moving on to a legislation and how it will apply the next day as well”.