Government says ELTA reform will continue despite CEO resignation

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Government spokesman Pavlos Marinakis said the resignation of Hellenic Post (ELTA) CEO Grigoris Sklikas does not awesome a retreat from the postal service’s restructuring plan.

“The resignation of Grigoris Sklikas from the absorption of ELTA is not a retreat. The restructuring program was chosen by the absorption of ELTA arsenic indispensable for ELTA to proceed to exist,” Marinakis told SKAI radio.

The authorities has travel under unit aft ELTA announced the closure of much than 200 branches nationwide, a determination that has sparked widespread backlash from section officials and ruling enactment members. The closures are portion of a modernization program aimed astatine cutting costs and expanding integer and home-delivery services, with authorities saying branches targeted for closure lend little than 10% of gross but relationship for implicit 50% of operating costs.

Marinakis pointed to two cardinal dates successful ELTA’s history, noting that successful 2013 the postal assemblage was liberalized, preventing the state from financing deficits under European rules. In 2018, under the SYRIZA-ANEL conjugation government, ELTA was transferred to the Superfund, making subsequent argumentation decisions the company’s responsibility.

He said the administration’s mistake was announcing the closure of 204 branches “without dialog with citizens and the section community.” The reform, helium added, will proceed aft consultations with section authorities and residents.

“The authorities is committed to ensuring that nary national will beryllium near without work and that nary occupation will beryllium lost,” helium said.