The new pension reforms proposed by the government will not cut pensions by even a single euro, government spokeswoman Olga Gerovassili said on Tuesday, while severely critizing the attitude of the opposition parties New Democracy and PASOK and characterized them as “brazen and irresponsible”.

“With the proposal that the government submitted yesterday for reforming the social security system, the government does not reduce main and supplementary pensions by even one euro” she said.

Mrs. Gerovassili also stressed that “for the first time pensioners can see a prospect since, as of 2018, with the expected increase in GDP there will be an increase in pensions, contrary to what has happened in recent years when pensions were reduced by 40 %  and in some cases by even 50 %,”.

She also noted that the average pension had fallen from 1,480 euros a month in 2010 to just 863 euros when ND and PASOK left power, adding that the current opposition leaders had a lot of nerve to blame the present government, “which was trying to avert a collapse of the social insurance system that they dismantled.”