The former Alternate Minister of Social Insurance Dimitris Stratoulis outlined the Left Platform’s plan to pull Greece out of the economic crisis speaking to state media outlet ERT in Volos, central Greece. The MP, who is a prominent figure in the Left Platform and is scheduled to address a crowd in Volos Thursday, urged the Greek government to change its course by disengaging from negotiations with the creditors. He continued by stressing that the memoranda must become a bad memory of the past.

One of the main aspects of the Left Platform’s alternative plan to ‘save’ Greece, according to Sratoulis was an orderly  return to a national currency. He continued by pointing out some more actions included in the new alternative plan such as the denouncement and writing off of the majority of the current Greek debt, nationalizing Greek banks, taxing high income and wealth, auditing the systemic media outlets of Greece and funding a growth plan for reinvigorating production and ending the austerity.

He denied that his speech at Volos Thursday, which is organized by leftist online site Iskra.gr, along with Panagiotis Lafazanis’s speech in Thessaloniki Wednesday, also organized Iskra, and President of Greek parliament Zoe Konstantopoulou’s press conference were part of an unfolding pre-election campaign.