Kyriakos Pierrakakis, after the announcement of the measures by Kyriakos Mitsotakis, made a post in which, among other things, he stresses that the aim is “to spread a safety net to families living on rent, to students, to pensioners who need our support“.

The Minister of National Economy and Finance noted that “this is a package of costed measures with a strong social and developmental bias“.

His post

“The measures announced today by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and specified by me and Nikos Papathanasis, and Thanos Petralia aim to spread a safety net to families living in rent, to students, to pensioners who need our support.

This is a package of costed measures with a strong social and developmental bias. We support the Public Investment Programme with an additional 500 million euros every year. It is the impetus that must be given to development, the bridge that unites us with modern Greece.

The total annual cost of the three measures amounts to around €1.1 billion and affects more than 2.7 million citizens, not counting in these figures the development impact of the Public Investment Programme.
The safe plumb line for making these announcements today is the 2024 surplus, which was announced a short while ago. According to official Eurostat data, the primary surplus is 4.8%, while the overall surplus is 1.3%.

We are listening to the citizens. We understand their anxieties and we respond with interventions that are not limited to temporary solutions, but are instead characterized by permanence. We support society in practice, building on solid foundations, which we are building together“.