Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis made a surprise visit to a supermarket this morning, after the start of the implementation of the new measures for precision which is expected to bring a drop in the price of thousands of products.
The Prime Minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, accompanied by the Minister of Development Kostas Skrekas they were found in a supermarket on Lenorman Street. “We came to verify in practice the efficiency of measures to reduce prices. Obviously, we have not faced the problem of accuracy but it is an important step regarding the operation of the market and it will have the expected result. I would like to single out baby milk, where we see reductions of 15% to 20% because the prices really got out of hand. And the effort continues.”
“We are in the middle of a big effort, an important step has been taken, we have also legislated the net prices for fresh products. The battle is actually an ongoing battle. We recognize the battle of households. We intervene Mr. Papadakis, we have real reductions of 15%-20% on 4,000 products. It was a sharp rise in prices that had to be dealt with. We have put the worst of inflation behind us. We are also talking about energy, there the intervention we made was a significant de-escalation, therefore we are dealing with what we call the overall basket of the household” he added.
“Should these reductions have been made earlier?” he was asked by Giorgos Papadakis and added that “we are talking about a drastic intervention. There was a real reason why the prices increased because the production costs increased then, the question is why they remained elevated, that’s where we made the intervention” answered the Prime Minister.
“What interests us is the strengthening of citizens’ income. A new increase in the minimum wage is imminent and we are well on our way to an average wage of 1,500 euros and a minimum wage of 950. If you add a political reduction in tax rates,” he concluded.
“Some had smiled” with the phrase “we are not bananas”
Outside the Galaxias supermarket on Lenorman Street, the prime minister was asked by Ant1’s Good Morning Greece presenters about his earlier statement that Greece is not a banana. “When I said that some people smiled. As a rule, companies comply with the fines imposed on them. We want competition but in the end we want everyone to benefit” replied Kyriakos Mitsotakis and added that “prices rise easily but then it is difficult to fall”. In this context, Kyriakos Mitsotakis assured that the controls of DIMEA will continue and “when phenomena of violation of the legislative framework are detected, the Ministry of Development will impose fines without dramatization”.
“The rules are here for everyone” underlined the prime minister.
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