Androulakis: New Democracy cannot guarantee a political change

The leader of main opposition PASOK-Movement for Change, Nikos Androulakis, gave an interview to ONE TV late on Thursday on almost the full range of current political issues, in which he stressed that ruling New Democracy "cannot guarantee a political change".

Regarding the farmers' protest mobilisations, Androulakis announced three proposals that he claimed imposed no fiscal burden.

First, regarding the cost of energy in agricultural production, he proposed that incentives be given to energy communities and cooperatives, producers, livestock breeders, processors, small standardisation units, and municipalities. Secondly, he proposed the modernisation of the regulations of the agricultural insurance agency ELGA to provide broader and faster compensation. Thirdly, he proposed that "the senior management of the EU subsidies payment authority OPEKEPE have a five-year term and be selected through an open international competition."

Regarding Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis' proposal for the establishment of an cross-party committee on the future of the primary sector, PASOK's president noted that next Wednesday, at the relevant session of Parliament, he will submit his own proposals. "I hope that New Democracy will truly show that it wants a change of model. To date - and I repeat this - its policy has consistently been a policy that serves the few powerful people in the country and especially the big players in energy," he commented.