“The
justified indignation and dissatisfaction must be transformed into
creativity and must be expressed through struggles, counter-attack and
social alliance against the dipole, the monopolies and capitalist,
with a powerful KKE everywhere” said the General Secretary of the
CC of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) Dimitris Koutsoumbas during
an interview on 24/7 radio.
When
asked whether the government will be politically legitimate after a
possible departure of ANEL from the governmental alliance,
Koutsoumbas said that “a government can exist event without the
required formal majority. It is certainly a political issue and the
government itself has to deal with it”.
The KKE General Secretary
also said that he does not share the government's ultra-optimism
which, as he underlined, “is based neither in realistic nor in
objective facts”.
As
he explained “the capitalist recovery that the government is
expecting is obviously very weak, we do not have a substantial
recovery or a recovery in the income of the majority of the Greek
people in 2019 and, of course, we can't even talk about a recovery of
the enormous economic losses that the people had during the last
decade”.
The
Communist Party leader added that “all anti-people memorandum laws
remain in force” while “the country is under constant
supervision”. All these, Dimitris Koutsoumbas said, are taking
place within “a situation where we have a significant sharpening of
the contradictions within the EU, the Eurozone, with centrifugal
tendencies, and these are always accompanies by the intensification
of authoritarianism, anti-communism, against people's rights and
liberties”.
Koutsoumbas
talked about the dangers that exist in the region, due to the
geopolitical games between imperialist centers as well as due to the
fact that the Tsipras' government has transformed Greece into a huge
US-NATO military base. The General Secretary underlined that the KKE
will vote against the “Prespes Agreement” because FYROM's
membership in NATO is a component and a condition of the agreement.
Regarding
the upcoming local and EU elections next May, Dimitris Koutsoumbas
said that the KKE's goal is quite high. “We clearly say to the
Greek people to avoid searching for differences between the various
parties of the establishment- the current governmental party of
SYRIZA, New Democracy, PASOK or others who are defined by them –
but the people themselves to make the real difference with a strong
KKE in all (electoral) battles, in the labor centers-federations'
elections, in the municipal, regional and European elections on May
26th, as well as in the general elections”.
