Nikos Romanos criticized the proposals by Tsipras and Androulakis for free public transportation, citing 2012-2015 figures without cost estimates. <\/p>\n
The Director of Digital Communications for the Prime Minister<\/strong>, Nikos Romanos<\/strong>, speaking on the Action 24 program “The Next Day” on Action 24, criticized the announcements made by Alexis Tsipras<\/strong> and Nikos Androulakis<\/strong> regarding free public transportation<\/strong>. <\/p>\n As he noted, when such proposals are made without explaining where the necessary resources will come from<\/strong> and without being part of a coherent overall plan<\/strong>, they remind him of the period 2012\u20132015<\/strong> and the \u201cI won\u2019t pay<\/strong>\u201d mentality. <\/p>\n \u201cIf you adopt this mindset, without saying where you\u2019ll find the money, without placing any such promise within a broader coherent framework<\/strong>, it reminds me of the period 2012\u20132015<\/strong>, when we were reliving such logic. “I won\u2019t pay<\/strong>” in any form,” he noted characteristically. <\/p>\n At the same time, he argued that Greece currently has one of the most cheap tickets<\/strong> in the European Union<\/strong>, while reminding that a 50% discount<\/strong> for young people<\/strong>, students<\/strong> and other eligible groups. <\/p>\n Mr. Romanos also highlighted the significant increase in the fleet<\/strong> of public transportation vehicles in recent years, as well as the measures taken to curb fare evasion<\/strong>, noting significant progress in this area. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n Romanos on Tsipras and Androulakis\u2019 announcement regarding free public transportation: \u201cIf you go down that path, without saying where you\u2019ll find the money, without placing any such promise within a broader, coherent framework \u2014 it reminds me of the 2012\u20132015 period, which we were reliving\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/t88gEKSZXQ<\/p>\n \u2014 tomanifesto.gr (@tomanifesto) June 15, 2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \n Nikos Romanos criticized Tsipras and Androulakis\u2019 proposals for free public transportation, referring to them as ideas from 2012\u20132015 that lack a cost analysis.<\/p>\n Nikos …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10829,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10828\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n