Kyriakos Pierrakakis: What the opposition says about the support measures would lead to European supervision

“The backbone of our policy is to reduce taxes and contributions, return the dividend of growth to society, but at the same time reduce the debt.”

The stimulus measures announced yesterday and the surplus were referred to by the Minister of National Economy and Finance, Kyriakos Pierrakakis in an interview today, while criticizing the opposition’s positions, arguing that what they say “would lead to European supervision”

“The backbone of the government’s policy is to reduce taxes and contributions, the dividend of growth to be returned to society, but at the same time to reduce the debt, Kyriakos Pierrakakis said, referring to the package of eight new support measures for citizens announced yesterday.

At the same time, Mr. Pierrakakis, speaking on Skai radio, responded to a request from the president of SYRIZAto give the entire primary surplus of almost €3 billion, noting that this is against European rules and would put the country under surveillance. “The Greek people bled to get out of what happened in 2015, he said.

“When I hear the opposition that they will take it from the rich, I understand that they will tax the middle class,” he said at another point.

Commenting on the 500 million euro support measures, Kyriakos Pierrakakis said that from the 2.9 billion euro surplus Greece can spend up to one billion. according to European rules.

“The rest of the surplus will go to debt repayments,” he said. “The government’s goal is for the debt-to-GDP ratio to fall below 120% by the end of the decade […]. We have cut 83 taxes, which no other government has done,” he noted.