With the words “rifts, reforms and competitiveness everywhere” Prime Minister and New Democracy leader Antonis Samaras presented live on TV his party’s National Plan of Reforms and Development on Saturday.
“Some want the businessman’s partisan state, others the prevalence of statism but what we want is growth” he said adding that the country must start to produce again with an outward-looking economy. “We must create an environment that will support the entrepreneurship and that will liberalize the people’s dynamic. The Greek government prevented the country’s exit from the eurozone while a political party exists that wants to set a trap to the Greek people” he said.
OECD in its report placed Greece among the first countries in reforms. A storm of changes and reforms took place in the country in conditions of crisis. In the coming years we will proceed to reforms in conditions of growth, said Samaras adding that “we have closed three very difficult State Budgets and now we can leave from the memorandum a year earlier. We began to develop the state’s property that can bring investments and revenues to the state while some others still dream of renationalization, something that is not applied anywhere. Thirdly, a balanced budget was voted and now the state covers its needs and we have money to pay the debt’s interests.
“There won’t be any further pension and wage cuts,” he told party members and supporters at a central Athens hotel. “The next breakthrough in our growth plan includes tax cuts across the board which can happen gradually, step by step.”
Samaras vowed to lower an unpopular property tax this year and reduce corporation tax to 15 percent from 26 percent gradually to boost investment.
(source: ana-mpa)
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