The State Budget is without vision and perspective, said the General Secretary of AKEL Andros Kyprianou.
Speaking to RIK, Mr. Kyprianou wondered where the growth of 3,7% is channeled.
We are, he said, the country with the highest growth rate of inequality, unemployment is still high, while there are no proposals for creating new-quality jobs.
Mr. Kyprianou said that what the Government could do would be to transfer resources where they are needed, such as in the fields of Health, Education and Social Benefits.
At the same time, he added, to implement such policies that limit the ability of some to speculate.
The General Secretary of AKEL also stated that the candidate for the Presidency Stavros Malas will legislate the collective agreements, will proceed to the setting of a minimum wage for all professions, will ensure the provision to all employees of the 13th salary and will give incentives to companies who will apply the provisions of the legislation.
DIKO
It would be inconsistent if someone took a different stance from the one he had taken in previous years, said DIKO parliamentary representative Christiana Erotokritou, commenting on criticisms of the party's stance on the State Budget.
He always said that for the Democratic Party, the economy was a national issue and he could not put it in the pre-election scenario, thinking that we would gain political benefits.
Ms. Erotokritou added that yesterday a very large number of amendments, by DIKO, EDEK, Solidarity, Ecologists and the independent MP Pavlos Mylonas, were approved by an overwhelming majority.
And with that, he concluded, we put our own stigma on the budget, reducing many concerns.
CITIZENS 'ALLIANCE
It is a political inconsistency on the one hand to be consumed by criticism of the government which it accuses of social analgesia and on the other to vote in favor of the budget, said the president of the Citizens' Alliance, presidential candidate George Lillikas.
Mr. Lillikas added that if the Government knew that the parties would be consistent with their declarations, it would take care, as it does with bills, to have an honest dialogue and to formulate those aspects for which there were the greatest sensitivities.
The dialogue, he said, would concern the political directions, as for example happened in the case of GESY.
Pointing out that in case of non-approval of the Budget, a problem would be created, Mr. Lillikas said that the Government could work with twelve billions and after a dialogue to restore it, improving the aspects in which there were objections.
Editor: Eva Argyrou, Rolandos Skettos
Source: RIK News