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Opposition Leader: Tax Tsunami Brought Greek People to their Knees

New Democracy leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Friday spoke of a ‘tax tsunami’ that will bring Greek people to their knees and accused Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras of choosing to clash blindly with creditors.
Speaking to SKAI radio on Friday the main opposition leader noted that the taxes imposed for the 2017-22 period is the direct result of the disastrous first half of 2015, underlining that Tsipras himself admitted that he led the country to the edge of the cliff.
“The economy has not yet reached the point it was at the end of 2014. Two billion euros of additional measures were implemented and the economy is not recovering. Substantial investments have not been made,” Mitsotakis said adding that Tsipras is celebrating the return to the bond sales without reason.
“It is obvious”, Mitsotakis said, “that after the completion of the second review the country returns to normality but this does not safeguard conditions for growth.”
We have a new bill on education ready
 Mitsotakis spoke extensively about education, saying that ND has a new bill ready. “We have literally prepared our new legislative framework for Higher Education, which is an improved version of the 4009 law, which was jointly voted by New Democracy and PASOK in 2011.” It includes much greater autonomy in universities, a tough assessment of universities depending on results produced and ease the suffocating control of the Ministry of Education on universities.
“We should,” continued the President of New Democracy, “make a great effort to persuade all these extremely remarkable Greeks abroad to return. Those who came to Greece to offer their services to the Greek Universities. And they were wrongly evicted by SYRIZA and by a part of the Greek university establishment, which, because of its mediocrity – I’m sorry to use such tough language – could not tolerate some academics who had a better career abroad.”
Mitsotakis also reiterated his position that Greece needs elections now, because the more the SYRIZA-ANEL coalition remains in power, the worse for Greece.

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