INSANITY - Tsipras Says Greece Should Rely on Itself, & Not Investments

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During a parliamentary debate on Tuesday night that was analyzing the issued faced by Greek farmers, main opposition SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras proposed that Greece must "rely on its own strength" and warned that government should stop deceiving citizens on pharaonic investments "that will supposedly save the country." Tsipras who openly opposed the government's investment plans, said, that Prime Minister Antonis Samaras went to Qatar in the name of growth, but he "did not dare to go up to Larissa or Heraklio to meet with the farmers and discuss their demands".

Addressing Parliament, he told the premier that he should not pretend to be a "Pontius Pilate" who will crucify the Greek people, because Samaras, in Tsipras' opinion is the moral and natural perpetrator of their Golgotha. "Do not pretend to be the man who personifies stability, because you represent instability."

On his part, PASOK party leader Evangelos Venizelos, accused Tsipras of demagoguery and disastrous policy proposals that would lead to a jungle'.

Following this, Democratic Left party leader, Fotis Kouvelis said that the country's adjustment program and ineffective measures should be changed and supplemented with new ones with the aim of the real economy being strengthened and growth procedures becoming functional, and the same should apply for problems facing the country's agricultural sector. Kouvelis placed emphasis "on a policy that will lead to agricultural economy growth and the improvement in farmers' income," while he stressed the need "for all margins to be exhausted for arrangements that can reduce production costs and will improve the competitiveness of the Greek agricultural economy."

Meanwhile, farmers at the Nikea junction in the central Greek city of Larissa decided to end their protests but are planning to rally in Athens on March 5, in support of unmet demands. A delegation of agricultural unions held a series of meetings with ministers in Athens last week but were told that fiscal constraints on the state budget prevented the meeting of all of their demands. Farmers have been blocking several junctions in northern Greek roads for over a month; most except those in Serres, have ended, following a decision by their coordinating committee to continue the protests by different means, starting with the rally in Athens.