Tsipras had called late Sunday a debate in Parliament whose main objective was to ask the opposition a clear position on the negotiating line government.
In recent days, the conservative New Democracy, now main opposition party, had criticized the government’s strategy in the negotiations and had predicted a third rescue.
Tsipras stressed today that the reforms that proposed the Government are initiatives formulated exclusively Greece (and not creditors), because the needs of society and the economy to recover.
Prime Minister avoided going into the details of the list of reforms, but stressed that do not involve proposals that would aggravate the recession, such as wage and pension cuts or layoffs, measures the troika of the European Commission, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund had demanded the previous Executive .
Among the announced reforms to boost economic recovery and improve the functioning of the state, the leader of the leftist Syriza highlighted the fight against smuggling of alcohol, snuff and oil, control of bank transactions and companies in tax havens, or special advertising tax.
Also announced increased Hacienda controls to combat high fraud in the payment of value added tax and an effective fight against labor illegal.
Tsipras said the tax amnesty that has been in place for a week to all persons and companies who repay their debts to the State Treasury has allowed raise in just seven days 100 million.
According to details leaked to the local press by the Ministry of Finance, reforms moved to Brussels called Group list will enable the State to raise additional 3,700 million euros this year.
It is basically fiscal measures and privatizations, such as the port of Piraeus and fourteen regional airports, whose partial sale will contribute, as cited leaks, income of about 1,500 million euros.
Tsipras He criticized the previous government led by the conservative Andonis Samaras have recovered only 70 million euros with a law allowing repayment in installments of tax debts, but contained numerous exceptions. The new Government has expanded the circle of people that can accommodate this law, raising all exceptions.
He also recalled that the Samarás Executive just ordered inquire about 25 Greek citizens of more than two thousand contained in the so-called “Lagarde list” of individuals with deposits in Swiss accounts suspected of evading taxes.
The now opposition leader, Samaras said that his party will support the government while negotiating seriously and exhorted him to finish quickly talks with creditors: “The longer perish but will have to pay it all,” said
The Conservative leader reminded Tsipras that the Government was elected to keep Greece in. the euro, which, he said, should not spoil. The government estimates that the above list is based are based on a primary surplus (excluding interest payments on debt) for this year of 1.5% of GDP and economic growth of 1.4%.
Greece expects green light as soon as its partners in this catalog in order to unlock at least part of the outstanding help and tackle the severe liquidity problems. In April, the State must face payments totaling 1,200 million euros in loan repayments and maturities of Treasury bills.
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