Opposition PASOK-Movement for Change leader Nikos Androulakis visited the town of Kalavryta in the Peloponnese on Thursday, where he said that the main target of his programme is to generate good jobs and a new regional growth that will keep young people in towns and villages.
In his meeting with the mayor of Kalavryta Thanassis Papadopoulos, Androulakis referred to the acute problem of private debt, commenting on the banks' decision to 'freeze' mortgage loan interest rates for one year, while he accused Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis of "playing the role of Pontius Pilatus" and of "showing what interests he serves".
"In the last two years the difference between deposit interest rates and mortgage interest rates is galloping. We proposed to the goverment that it tax the banks' excessive profits but instead it allowed them to have record profits in 2022. And now, just weeks before the elections, they make a decision which proves that they could have done much more in the last two years, in which citizens had to contend with a reduction of their purchasing power," Androulakis said.
At the same time, he accused main opposition SYRIZA-Progressive Alliance of insulting the borrowers' intelligence as it sold their loans to the funds and New Democracy did not protect primary residences. That's why I asked the Greek people for a strong mandate for a decision of change.