KKE's Koutsoubas: 'Green transition' serves business interests more than the environment

Koutsoubas also referred to the detrimental effect on the environment in the way renewable energy sources (RES) are developed today. "We thus have an energy proverty, essentially, and a rise in power bills instead of a drop, because they (RES) are truly too costly," he said. In addition, not all available energy resources in Greece are utilized, including lignite, whose production of pollutants can be minimized.

The Communist Party - which is participating - is opposed to the party leaders' debate on June 15, he said, calling it "three or four hours of lost time for the people watching, not for the political leaders." The way the so-called debate is carried out now, he said, is "soliloquies in tandem, without the option of substantial argument." In addition, the journalists asking the questions should have come from all media, not just from TV channels, he said.