Government is lying to the people about privatisations

 

Statement of Christos Christofides, AKEL Political Bureau member

AKEL C.C. Press Office, 13th December 2015, Nicosia

 

The Anastasiades government is moving ahead towards the privatization of profitable Semi-governmental organizations because it wants to, because this is its own policy and philosophy.

Despite the fact that for several months it was trying to convince the people that “privatizations were demanded by the Memorandum and the Troika”, the Finance Minister recently remembered that they are “necessary structural changes.”

They are lying to the people, as they were also lying when they said during the presidential elections that they “pledge” to every citizen that they would not proceed to any privatizations. The selling-off of public and profitable wealth is their policy, it is their choice.

The selling off of profitable Semi-governmental organizations does not only concern the working people, but the entire Cypriot people. Wherever privatizations have been implemented it is ordinary citizens who have paid from their pockets the cost of the super profits of the monopolies and oligopolies, poor quality services, resulting in several states seeking in a rush today to renationalize Semi-governmental organizations.