The despair of the producers in Larissa after the destruction caused by yesterday’s bad weather, as well as the “indifference” of the government, is highlighted by the Secretary of the Parliamentary Group of PASOK-Movement for Change and MP, Evangelia Liakouli.
“After the absolute drought of recent months, the farmers and stock breeders of Larissa were forced yesterday to face the consequences of the sudden bad weather that hit our afflicted prefecture. Many areas of the municipality of Kileler, in Eleftherai, in Terpsithea, Vrysia Farsalon, and elsewhere, were “dressed in white” from the extensive hailstorm, and for the people of the land, who saw their efforts destroyed once again, despair is now evident,” the MP states, noting that “whatever did not drown last year due to Daniel and Elias, withered from the lack of water throughout July and August, and whatever managed to escape this ordeal was hit by the hail.”
“Despite the ‘merry-go-round’ of natural disasters and erratic destructive weather phenomena, what remains ‘stable,’ however, is the indifference of the government regarding all this: ceaseless verbal diarrhea, boasts, and statements that always remain just statements. A government that on camera—after disasters or diseases, like the recent plague—continually ‘promises’ fair compensations and substantial support for farmers and stock breeders, and as soon as the cameras leave, forgets their existence. A government that in the three years of the soaring costs of animal feed, fertilizers, medicines, fuel, electricity, tried with ‘crumbs’ and ‘aspirin’ to convince that it ‘supports’ the primary sector, but fails to persuade anyone other than its vain and self-referential self. A government that for more than five years in power is still ‘consulting,’ without ever completing the amendment of the ELGA Regulation, in order to cover the damages in agricultural production due to the impacts of the Climate Crisis. A government that recently could not even muster a representative or an MP to participate in the very serious discussion about the huge problem of water scarcity in Thessaly,” she adds.
“But all this certainly has the audacity to claim that perhaps… things will change in the third term of the government of New Democracy and Mr. Mitsotakis… which is required ‘to do everything necessary,’” she continues, concluding: “Or maybe—better—the multiple damaged farmers and stock breeders of Thessaly should serve as the vanguard for the permanent replacement of this government that pretended to ‘listen,’ but in the end remained only with ‘friendly pats on the back’ and easy observations that equate to nothing more than absolute devaluation of the people of the primary sector and their needs.”