'Greeks Don't Need Saviors': Gov't Spokesman Slams Tsipras Comeback

A authorities spokesperson has  dismissed the governmental comeback of erstwhile Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, stating that Greek citizens bash not request "cults of property oregon saviors, but policies that amended their lives."

Speaking connected SKAI television, spokesperson Pavlos Marinakis argued that Mr. Tsipras’s instrumentality relies connected citizens having "weak memories" of the 2015 fiscal crisis. 

"Under Tsipras, Greece ranked 27th successful Europe for maturation and had little wages. 

Today, we person treble the E.U. mean maturation complaint and the lowest unemployment successful 17 years,” Mr. Marinakis said.

He defended the existent government's record, pointing to a large taxation betterment for 2026 that volition exempt workers nether 25 from income taxation and supply alleviation for families. 

While acknowledging the "real hardship" of the rising outgo of living, Mr. Marinakis said the authorities has successfully managed aggregate outer crises.

The spokesperson besides addressed the ongoing Tempi bid clang probe and the hunger onslaught of a victim's father, Panos Ruci. While expressing "human solidarity," Mr. Marinakis stressed that specified matters "belong solely to the judiciary." 

He besides pledged that overdue workplace subsidy payments would statesman this period but that strict audits into the OPEKEPE ungraded would continue, stating, "The weapon volition scope the bone."