Government spokesman Pavlos Marinakis, speaking at the 16th ND Congress, said that “we have to look at the road we have travelled”. “Today we feel the deep satisfaction of vindication. We are the party that saw the future. When ONNED and the GOP were fighting battles for non-state universities, some people mocked us. We are vindicated for the battle of evaluation in the public sector. Now it is being put into practice. We are being vindicated for the outward-looking economy, for privatisation. We are vindicated for the end of the sanctuary of lawlessness. We have to run the rest of the changes for the universities. We are justified for the grand alliances and the arms programmes. History has written that the Southwest has always been on the right side of developments,” he added.
The Deputy Prime Minister noted that a progressive government is one that reduces more than 80 taxes, creates conditions for more than 600,000 people to find jobs, 112, recognizing your mistakes, making changes such as in the OPEKEPE, minimum wage increases, the work card, increasing the average wage, investment, digitization of the state, rapid debt reduction.
“Let us not underestimate the challenges of tomorrow. The New Democracy in Greece of 2030 must identify with the needs of every family,” he said, adding that it is the party that has spoken and continues to talk to the middle class.
“They are asking for understanding, works and substance. The 83 tax cuts and contributions we have cut show the way. Small and medium-sized businesses want common sense, not the absurdity of the opposition parties. We certainly cannot talk about compulsory four-day work,” he pointed out, among other things.
“Kyriakos Mitsotakis opened the doors of the party. He gave opportunities to new faces. I am one of them and I am grateful to him and to the party. We owe a lot and I personally owe a lot to ND. A lot to ONNED, to the party. I was elected secretary at the last congress. We owe a lot to the party. Some will have objections and complaints. That’s legitimate. ND is the party of dialogue. It has taught us to put ‘we’ above ‘I’,” the government spokesman stressed.
“The torch is our common ideas, the “we” and not the “I”, all those who never asked for anything and when called upon by the party were present and present. When the battle comes we put aside any bitterness for the country. In less than a year the election season will begin. The Congress is the beginning of a campaign to talk to every Greek woman, every Greek man and we will win their trust again so that Kyriakos Mitsotakis will be Prime Minister again and ND will be the government,” Marinakis said.
