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Tsipras focused his address on handling poverty in as much as “poverty is the greatest violence”, while stressing that “we are determined to strike this violence, we are determined to save the people from unhappiness and hunger and we shall not consider any extortion in front of this target”.

Referring to government policy and to the prime minister

personally for his positions regarding the country’s exit from the crisis, Tsipras said “I do not know whether the prime minister, from where he lives, has difficulty in observing the signs of desperation”.

Tsipras presented statistics on poverty in Greece, which, as he said, are terrifying, since the country lost in three years almost a quarter of its GDP. “2.5 million people in Greece are living in poverty, 800,000 people belong to families in which no one works any more, one out of two young people is unemployed and nine out of 10 patients are unable to buy pharmaceuticals,” he said.

Lastly, Tsipras assured that SYRIZA wants and can handle poverty and social ruin.

Gov’t response

Commenting on the main opposition leader’s statements, Government Spokesman Simos Kedikoglou said that Tsipras insisted on “the populist and disastrous policies of the slogan ‘Money exists’.”

“Fortunately enough the people have a memory and they can judge,” he added.

source: ΑΜΝΑ