PASOK-KINAL: Mitsotakis is not a miracle worker
PASOK-KINAL: PM Mitsotakis is not a miracle worker, multiplying loaves of bread and fish
The 10% subsidy announced by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis for food bills "obviously does not compensate for the double bleeding of a large majority of citizens' income following the high inflation rate and increased expenses due to consumption taxes," PASOK-Movement for Change (KINAL) said on Sunday.
The party called on the PM to adopt its own proposals immediately to deal with inflation, "instead of showing up like a miracle worker who multiplies five loaves of bread and two fish" to cover an entire society's needs.
PASOK-KINAL said that food items are priced at the highest level of the last 13 years, exceeding the general inflation rate by a lot. It cited the Greek statistical service (ELSTAT), saying that on an annual basis food prices have risen by 15%, with some categories - such as dairy and oils - rising as much as 25.3%. For this reason, the party said, the idea of "10% interest rate, 10% refund" is a joke, especially ahead of national elections.
"The food pass will absorb only a small part of inflation - it works like an aspirin and fully shows the failure of the much-advertised but full-of-holes shopper's basket," PASOK-KINAL stressed.
