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News / 02 Jun 2015

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The President of the Greek Parliament calls for a moratorium until the Debt Truth Committee ends the audit

About the situation in Greece, its recent past and, above all on what to do, spoke the president of the Hellenic Parliament, Zoe Konstantopoulou. She began by explaining how "austerity kills",...

About the situation in Greece, its recent past and, above all on what to do, spoke the president of the Hellenic Parliament, Zoe Konstantopoulou. She began by explaining how "austerity kills", not only people, but rights, democracy and everything that catches her step. She gave details of the deep humanitarian crisis left by five years of austerity "imposed by undemocratic methods." Shee also argued that privatization of public enterprises and public goods made by the government should not be called privatization but "donations" by the scandalous conditions in which they were made.

Then Konstantopoulou analyzed Syriza victory and how people voted against austerity, for rights and for democracy against "the austerity imposed under the pretext of paying an illegitimate, illegal and odious debt is not perpetuated." And she also spoke of the Committee of Public Debt built in Greece to serve the fundamental right of people to know exactly what that debt is. It is the first time a country does an audit of this type. At this point she claimed that "the rational and ethical solution for all who care about truth and justice is to give Greece a moratorium until the conclusion of the audit committee."

The president of the Greek parliament told how the government has tried to re-establish Syriza justice and social status, listing some of the laws passed to combat the humanitarian crisis and corruption. He claimed that "the struggle of the Greek people is the struggle across Europe and around the world, the fight for the future generation." She said that "Europe can become the Europe of prosperity and the people's justice and not the European economic totalitarianism which only believes in economic neocolonialism".

On behalf of Parliament, the Greek people and government asked the European solidarity, which is what can convince and overcome, the same words she used to conclude firmly to great applause: "I am convinced that we will win!".

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