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Four and a half hours of blackout in the Health Ministry

 

Having successfully completed an impressive attempt to interrupt the power to the main building of the Health Ministry, the GENOP unionists visted the site of the Polytechnic University, where they laid a wreath in memory of the dead of the rebellion against the Junta.

“The best honour  to the fighters of the Polytechnic is to continue on the path of struggle and resistance they blazed. With the government, the memorandum and the troika, we have open accounts and every day that passes, we will close the roads”, stated GENOP president Nikos Fotopoulos and announced other corresponding actions, like the Health Ministry blackout.

The argument according to which the GENOP unionists justified their move to cut the power at the Ministry for four and a half hours, was the debt of the ministry to the PPC amounting to 3.8 million.

The political leadership of the Ministry of Health and Social Solidarity, with its communication, denies the allegations of GENOP PPC and assures that the ministry’s headquarters have no debts towards the electricity company.

On his party, Health Minister Andreas Loverdos stated, during a morning show in ANT1: “I understand the initiation of the administration of GENOP-PPC and can only characterize it as correct, but we must remember the fight that the ministry is gving in order to keep the balance with its suppliers, to whom we owe large sums and who continue to supply us”. Mr. Loverdos stated that “as we are strict with the poor, we must be okay with the state”.