Nikos Androulakis: “ND Leaves Farmers at the Mercy of the Crisis”

In a sharp onslaught connected the New Democracy government, PASOK person Nikos Androulakis launched a circuit successful Thessaly to basal with farmers and livestock breeders affected by the goat and sheep plague and delays successful OPEKEPE subsidies.

During an lawsuit successful Larissa, Mr. Androulakis declared emphatically: “ND recycles the worst practices that drove the state to the brink of bankruptcy. Today, thousands of farmers are being punished for circumstances beyond their control, portion the authorities leaves producers astatine the mercy of the crisis.”

PASOK emphasizes that Greece is the lone EU state that failed to wage farmers yesterday, with over €500 cardinal successful subsidies remaining unpaid. Furthermore, Mr. Androulakis criticized the handling of the plague, noting that by October 24, 1,524 livestock farms had been destroyed and over 387,902 animals killed, leaving the aforesaid fig of families without income.

Standing with farmers, the PASOK person presented a comprehensive bundle of proposals for the cultivation sector:

• Protection of farmland and cooperatives, safeguarding against seizures and offering 2nd chances for producers affected by crises.
• Education and grooming for young farmers, with expanded cultivation schools, modern curricula, and links to probe and innovation.
• Reduction of accumulation costs, via maximum terms limits for cultivation drugs, an “Agricultural Fuel Card,” and renewable vigor subsidies.
• Institutional strengthening of OPEKEPE, ensuring nonsubjective enactment processes, digitalization, and timely outgo of subsidies.
• Technological modernization, with geospatial data, outer monitoring, and artificial quality for faster harm assessment.

Mr. Androulakis highlighted that EU assistance done the de minimis strategy (€50,000 per producer) has ne'er been requested by the government, portion demanding immediate compensation, sum for mislaid income, and enactment to rebuild herds.

In his connection to farmers, helium stressed:“PASOK has ever been a steadfast state of farmers. We enactment the countryside, empower young farmers, and request that the authorities halt delays and instrumentality responsibility.”

The circuit marks a significant outward-focused move by PASOK amid interior tensions, aiming to reaffirm the opposition’s committedness to a sustainable and just cultivation aboriginal for the country.