European elections: Speed ​​up before finals – Mitsotakis “exorcism” no vote, Kassalakis the NT

With the European elections on June 9 less than two weeks away, and popular interest still some distance away, party leaders are focusing on the stakes of this ballot for Greece and Europe, although little has been said about the latter.

Kyriakos Mitsotakis emphasizes the need for political stability, arguing that if the new democracy loses strength, its political opponents will return to the country with arguments to oust the government.

At the same time, he called for a higher turnout in the referendum, asking citizens to send a message of stability and continuity.

“We want a better result that will give us the impetus to implement the program we were elected,” the Prime Minister emphasized in his televised interview, “We will protect the legitimacy we got in the election because we told the truth, we worked hard and the citizens believe that we are best suited to govern this place for the next four years. They believe.”

“Accuracy is the elephant in the room”

At the same time, while he admits – on a daily basis – that citizens’ accuracy is the biggest problem, he says his government has made interventions to tackle it, while he promises “more income support” and blames the official opposition. For proposals… “X” based on “minute trees” of the past.

“The elephant in the room is precision, the biggest problem households face. Precision persists in the supermarket, especially in food. We have higher-than-average food inflation,” said Kyriakos Mitsotakis, though “what the opposition is promising is not the right solution, and there is no money to zero the VAT that Syriza is asking for.”

Pollsters are talking about no-voting – a record in the post-colonial years, estimating that the participation rate in the June 9 European elections did not even reach 50%.

“The opposition has not changed a bit, it has changed its mantle and is a combination of toxicity, populism and residual trees, which has led the country to a state of bankruptcy, and we should never go there,” he said.

He also noted that “some of the opposition’s proposals are ‘X,'” while underscoring that “whoever proposes anything that guts the budget, he has to tell us what benefits he’s going to cut and what taxes we’re going to put in.”

From his pre-election statements, of course, national issues never disappeared, with messages about the need for an agreement (Prespa) in North Macedonia, with references to the continued strengthening of the armed forces, which he did not believe. … “We’re going to war”, and by calling for “blue victories” on immigration.

“Let the common sense counterattack begin – no to the arrogance of the 41%”

Stefanos Kassalakis sent his own message to citizens to launch a “counterattack of common sense”, as he called it, from the June 9 European elections, from the Ilias Tower, which he visited on Wednesday.

“Here in Ilia, which is decaying, we see young people and students leaving, we see one doctor for 160,000 citizens, the counterattack of common sense must begin,” the SYRIZA president insisted, adding that this counterattack was “no”. The 41%, who prefer banks, refineries and power plants, are arrogant enough to say that instead of giving the world a suffocation, VAT should be reduced on essentials, transport may be cut, oligopolies should be curbed. People”.

After Stefanos Kasselakis visited the Nikos Pelogianis Museum in Amaliata, his statements about the pro-democracy activist provoked an angry reaction from the KKE, which accused him of “irresponsibility, immorality and historical falsification”.

“Closing has two fireplaces behind it”

A few hours earlier, the president of Syriza had launched a fierce attack on the government, on the occasion of revealing Mega’s report on the “secret” meeting of Agorastos, Triandopoulos, Gipharus and a representative of the Hellenic train, where it was decided to dig. Tempe is the site of a long-dead train tragedy.

Stefanos Kasselakis, in his pre-election agenda, was heavy on corruption issues with frequent references to Tempi and the rule of law, insisting that “Tempi has two fireplaces to cover, names and surnames”.

In a two-minute video that includes parts of the MEGA report, which he published on social networks, the SYRIZA president, a “government cover-up”, was attempted 24 hours after the train accident. is exposed.

Check out with me how the tempeh wrap was planned.

The accident took place in the early hours of March 1. Secret meeting for the patch on March 3rd. Two days later!

Christos Triandopoulos attended the secret meeting. Deputy Minister to the Prime Minister.
Question: Did you transfer or… pic.twitter.com/DaagWRTnc9

— Stefanos Kasselakis (@Skasselakis) May 29, 2024

“Mitsotakis hates citizens’ problems”

PASOK’s president also focuses his criticism of the government on everyday issues, insisting that Kyriakos Mitsotakis “underestimates the intelligence” of the Greek people, the precision and practices of multinational corporations, and with his “famous” letter to Ursula van der Leyen, while at the same time “despising the problems of ordinary citizens”. .

“The bottom line is what Kiriakos Mitsotakis did. A woman went to him and said that the problem of thousands of small pensioners in the country and his answer was the problem of a man who hates the problems of ordinary citizens”, underlined Nikos Androulakis, speaking to Mega.

Reiterating that taxpayers should not be paying for a “broken” email gateway, but a new democracy should be earmarked for state subsidies, he wonders if a prime minister is following sound economic policy. The lowest purchasing power in the Eurozone and the second worst of the 27 EU countries?’

“He argues that he is not responsible, because accuracy is beyond question. Listen to the second deafening EU fact: Greece’s wage share is 27th from the bottom in Europe and the Mitsotakis-era profit share is third from the top. We are the third-last country in terms of profits and wages. It’s citizens. Does not show great speculation of financial interests?”, Kasselakis urges the citizens to support PASOK, instead of Mr. Lygestyle’s opposition. . As well as laying the groundwork for an alternative government proposal against the ND in the next national election.

Prohibition, pollsters predict record post-revolution record

Meanwhile, pollsters are talking about boycotts – a record in the post-revolutionary years, estimating that the participation rate in the European elections on June 9 will not reach 50%.

In particular, as Marc’s managing director Thomas Gerakis said in ERT’s first project, “We will have a very large voter turnout in the parliamentary or European elections. In other words, there is a risk that participation will not exceed 50% this time.”

Speaking about citizens’ issues and how they see Europe, “they are in awe when faced with big issues. They feel small, that is, to affect issues related to Europe”.

And, “We see that the campaigns of parties and parties, especially opposition parties, are based on parliamentary or national elections. We see the government using a phrase that the Prime Minister mentioned, holding hands and talking about stability. I think that European issues are secondary in these European elections, as he said.

Finally, he estimates that the percentage of voters who decide to go to the ballot box at the last minute will be in the double digits.