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On the result of the referendum: Hundreds of thousands of people supported the proposal of the KKE
On the 5th of July 2015, a referendum was held in Greece. The question posed was whether the citizens agreed or not with the proposed agreement, tabled by the EU-IMF-ECB, that will continue the anti-people measures worth 8 billion euros.
The governmental majority of SYRIZA-ANEL rejected the proposal of the KKE for the government’s draft agreement to also be placed before the judgment of the Greek people in the referendum together with the issue of abolishing all the anti-people laws that have been passed in recent years and the issue of disengaging from the EU. At the same time, the coalition government explained that the NO in the referendum is interpreted by the government as approval for its own proposed agreement with the EU-IMF-ECB, which inside 47+8 pages also includes harsh antiworker-antipeople measures, worth about 8 billion euros.
In these conditions, the KKE called on the workers to turn their backs on the false dilemma which was being posed in the referendum, using all appropriate means. The forces of the KKE outside the election centres handed out its own ballot paper to the voters which said:
- NO TO THE PROPOSAL OF THE EU-IMF-ECB
- NO TO THE PROPOSAL OF THE GOVERNMENT
- DISENGAGEMENT FROM THE EU, WITH THE PEOPLE IN POWER
Of course, it was understood that this ballot paper would be counted as a spoiled ballot, but together with the blank ballot papers and the abstention it constitutes a political current that disputes the choices of the SYRIZA-ANEL government and also of the imperialist organizations, with whom the government is negotiating for the needs of capital in Greece.
It should be noted that together with the parties of the coalition government (SYRIZA-ANEL) fascist Golden Dawn also took a position in favour of the NO,, as well as other small nationalist and ultra-left groups, like ANTARSYA.
On the other side, the rightwing opposition ND, social-democratic PASOK that governed until January 2015, together with POTAMI, KIDHSO (the party of the former Prime Minister G. Papandreou) and other smaller bourgeois political forces took a position in favour of a YES which they stated would be interpreted as being consent to “staying in the EU at all costs”.
The final results were the following:
In his first statements after the announcement of the result, D. Koutsoumpas, the GS of the CC of the KKE saluted the thousands of people who responded to the call of the KKE and did not submit to the blackmailing dilemmas i.e. those that cast the ballot proposed by the KKE into the ballot box, a proposal which the government refused to put to the vote in the Parliament, depriving the people of the right to cast it in a mass way into the ballot box.
He noted that in relation to the dubious question of the snap referendum, a section of the people was able to overcome the entrapment and deception and gave a first response, with the spoiled ballot, and also with the blank ballot, while some chose abstention from this process.
The GS addressed himself in particular to those who chose NO, believing that in this way they could stop austerity, that they can answer the anti-people measures and memoranda in this way. He called on them not to be complacent and not to consent to the government’s effort to transform this NO into a YES to new anti-people agreements. He stressed that the KKE extends its hand to them for the struggles against the deterioration of their lives that will begin the day after the referendum.
The KKE issued a similar militant call to those who chose YES under pressure from the big employers, due to fear about closed banks and fear of the consequences for their salaries, pensions and small savings.
The KKE notes that the negotiations promised by Mr Tsipras, based on his proposal, will inevitably lead to a new worse memorandum.
The situation highlights the necessity of the movement and our people adopting the proposal of the KKE for a pro-people way out of the crisis in a mass and determined way. The KKE will be in the frontline of all the struggles of our people in the following period, strengthening, from tomorrow, the anti-monopoly anti-capitalist line of struggle, the rallying around the KKE.
06.07.2015
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COALITION GOVERNMENT (25/6/2015) |
COMMISION –ECB-IMF (26/6/2015) |
COALITION GOVERNMENT (TSIPRAS LETTER 2/7/2015) |
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SOCIAL SECURITY-SALARIES |
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Pensioners' social solidarity benefit |
phase-out from 2018 to 2020 |
complete elimination by 2019 |
complete elimination by 2019 |
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Retirement age |
gradually increase to 67 for all by 2025 |
gradually increasing to 67 for all by 2022 |
gradually increasing to 67 for all by 2022 |
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expenditure on pensions |
Saving: 2015 up to 0.5% of GDP, 2016: 1% of GDP |
Saving: 2015 up to 0.5% of GDP, 2016: 1% of GDP |
Saving: 2015 up to 0.5% of GDP, 2016: 1% of GDP |
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increase of health contributions to the main pensions |
From 4% to 5% |
From 4% to 6% |
From 4% to 6% |
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increase of contributions to the supplementary pensions |
Establishment of contribution 5% (today 0%) |
Establishment of contribution 6% |
Establishment of contribution 6% |
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Increase contributions for the supplementary pensions (employed) |
From 3% to 3,5% |
From 3% to 3,5% |
From 3% to 3,5% |
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Increase in health contributions (employed) |
From 4% to 5% |
From 4% to 5% |
From 4% to 5% |
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Social-security contributions (employed) |
Increase 1% for employed, 2,9% for businesses |
No reference |
No reference |
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Early retirement |
Increase of “penalty” by 10% |
Increase of “penalty” by 10% |
Increase of “penalty” by 10% |
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Public sector wages |
Reduction of “wage costs” from 1/1/2016 |
Reduction of “wage costs” from 1/1/2016 |
Reduction of “wage costs” from 1/1/2016 |
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solidarity levy |
maintenance and into integration income tax |
maintenance and into integration income tax |
maintenance and into integration income tax |
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minimum wage |
On the basis of the memorandum law 4172/2013 |
On the basis of the memorandum law 4172/2013 |
On the basis of the memorandum law 4172/2013 |
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parafiscal |
elimination of noncontributory |
elimination of all |
elimination of all |
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clause zero deficit |
Suspension of implementation |
Immediate implementation |
Suspension of implementation-re-examination in the Autumn |
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TAXATION |
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ENFIA (New property poll tax) |
Remains (at least) for 2015-2016 |
Remains (at least) for 2015-2016 |
Remains (at least) for 2015-2016 |
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additional revenue from VAT |
0,93% of GDP |
1% of GDP |
1% of GDP |
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VAT rates |
23% for all processed and packaged foods 13% only for basic food, electricity, hotels 6% for medicines, books, theaters 23% for the rest |
23% for all processed and packaged foods 13% only for basic food, electricity, hotels 6% for medicines, books, theaters 23% for the rest |
23% for all processed and packaged foods 13% only for basic food, electricity, hotels 6% for medicines, books, theaters 23% for the rest |
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farmers taxation |
tax 13% from the first euro in subsidies |
26% tax from the first euro in earnings, abolition of reduced tax rate for petrol |
26% tax from the first euro in earnings, abolition of reduced tax rate for petrol |
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shipowners taxation |
maintaining tax exemptions – tax on “tonnage” |
eliminating tax exemptions |
No reference |
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increase tax rate on businesses |
From 26% to 29% |
From 26% to 28% |
From 26% to 28% |
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PRIVATIZATIONS-LIBERALIZATION |
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Energy |
maintain law for small DEI(Hellenic Public Power Corporation)-Enhancement of competition Review electricity bills based on costs |
maintain law for small DEI(Hellenic Public Power Corporation)-Enhancement of competition Review electricity bills based on costs |
maintain law for small DEI(Hellenic Public Power Corporation)-Enhancement of competition Review electricity bills based on costs |
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ADMIE (Independent Power Transmission Operator) |
No reference |
Separation from DEI-privatization |
Separation from DEI- privatization with government majority ownership |
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Natural gas |
liberalization of market by law |
liberalization of market by law |
liberalization of market by law |
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REVENUE-SPENDING |
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primary surpluses |
2015: 1%, 2016:2%. 2017:3% |
2015: 1%, 2016:2%. 2017:3% |
2015: 1%, 2016:2%. 2017:3% |
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Supplementary state budget |
Immediate tabling in parliament for approval |
Immediate tabling in parliament for approval |
Immediate tabling in parliament for approval |
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Fiscal Council |
Automatic “cutter” in the instance of deviations |
Automatic “cutter” in the instance of deviations |
Automatic “cutter” in the instance of deviations |
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Defense expenditure |
reduction of 200 million euros |
reduction of 400 million euros |
reduction of 400 million euros from 2017 |
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FINANCE SYSTEM |
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Banks |
The private management will be respected |
The private management will be respected |
The private management will be respected |
