Public
Power Corporation (PPC) unionist with Samaras' party reveals the big
trick in favor of private “investors”!
by system
failure
Pantelis
Karaleftheris, PPC unionist, employee representative and MEP
candidate with Nea Dimokratia (the main government coalition party)
in recent euro elections, speaking in one of the biggest mainstream
media in Greece, revealed that the government is selling off the
"small PPC” (30% of the current PPC) for 1.5 billion, while
lignite deposits will bring a profit of 120 billion (!) over 30
years.
Specifically,
Karaleftheris claimed that whoever private investor will buy the
"small PPC", will pay approximately 1.5 billion euros, an
amount equal to a new modern technology power station that the PPC
currently builds. However, according to his statement, the government
in essence hides the fact that the investor will also take a high
quality lignite deposit with an estimated value of more than 120
billion euros over 30 years!
Additionally,
the investor will take the lignite deposits of the highest calorific
value and better quality, leaving those of lower quality to the
remaining part of PPC under Public control.
Karaleftheris
also claimed that, all these things are of less importance because
the government is planning to sell the remaining part of PPC to
another private investor in the future, anyway. Therefore, a tight
cartel will be formed in the energy sector by two big private
companies which will control the prices at will.
This is
another good evidence that the neoliberal government transforms
Greece into a banana republic to serve the interests of the few.
While the
government claims that all these actions are prerequisites imposed by
the Troika lenders to Greece, it is worth to remember that a
government official, the Deputy Transport Minister, Michalis
Papadopoulos, recently stated that the Troika and the Greek
government are only serve local and foreign interests:
http://failedevolution.blogspot.gr/2014/03/official-troika-in-greece-serves.html
Meanwhile,
the war between the government and the PPC unionists/opposition
culminates.
In a
decision published at 11 p.m. Friday, the Athens First Instance Court
ruled that the strike of unionists at Public Power Company (PPC/DEH)
was “illegal”. Immediately the government moved to issue “civil
mobilization” order to strikers as it was clear that they would
continue their strike despite the court ruling.
http://www.keeptalkinggreece.com/2014/07/05/govt-issues-civil-mobilization-orders-to-ppc-strikers/
It is
obvious that, as the government holds a very thin majority ready to
break, especially after the latest euro elections where SYRIZA won
and government coalition parties lost significant power, the local
and foreign oligarchs are pressing the puppet government to sell
quickly in ridiculously low prices, the key sectors under public
control.
The
video with the specific statements here:
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