Huge interests behind surrender of our national wealth to foreign and local capital
Statement of Georgos Loucaides, AKEL Press Spokesperson
AKEL C.C. Press Office, 4th May 2015, Nicosia
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he ruling DISY Rally party has decided after more than two years in power, to reveal its real positions on privatizations, thus confirming that it deliberately deceived citizens and the people, when before the elections it made a pledge to the contrary and when until very recently it was blaming privatizations on the Memorandum and the Troika.
DISY, trapped in its ideological obsessions and class policy to serve big private interests, repeated its attempt to glorify and idealize everything private, whilst at the same time demonizing and discrediting everything public.
The collapse of DISY’s basic ideology on the economy, together with the collapse of the private banks that was the flagship of the private sector, did not in any way provoke any reflection among DISY and its leadership. Evidently, there are huge interests behind the surrender of our national wealth to foreign and local capital.
Instead, DISY and the Anastasiades government continue to impose punishing measures against the people, socializing the losses of the private banks and privatizing, this time, the profits of the Semi-governmental organizations.
Apart from the economy that will suffer damage as a result of the massive outflow of profits abroad, the government’s victims will also include public finances that will lose recurring resources, consumers and taxpayers, who will be called upon to pay the additional profits and the tax evasion of private monopolies that will develop. National security in key sectors of the economy and of course working people themselves in these organizations will also be damaged.
AKEL will intensify its struggles to prevent privatizations, in coordination and cooperation with other opposition parties and organized groups.
