The child benefits conservative New Democracy plans for when it emerges to power from the 7. July elections will be for “Greek children only!” This was revealed by Kosntantinos Kyranakis, ND candidate in Athens and co-founder of BrainGain.gr and close aide of leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis.
“We really want to make it easier for all working mothers who are struggling today to balance their family, work and home duties. We will establish a tax free of charge for every new Greek member of the Greek family, ” Kyranakis said in an interview to reader.gr and posted also accordingly on his social media accounts.
✅Επίδομα 2.000€ για κάθε Ελληνόπουλο ✅Βρεφικά είδη & είδη πρώτης ανάγκης για τη μητέρα με ΦΠΑ 11% ✅Αύξηση αφορολόγητου για κάθε παιδί κατά 1.000€
🇬🇷Στηρίζουμε τα νέα ζευγάρια να κάνουν τη δική τους οικογένεια στην Ελλάδα. https://t.co/Zck9kWcSIe #Εκλογες_2019— kyranakis (@kyranakis) June 23, 2019
“€2,000 benefit for every Greek child. Baby items for the mother at 11% Value Added Tax. Raise tax-free amount per child at €1,000. We support young couples establishing their own family in Greece.”
To comments and questions about who will receive the child benefits, Kyranakis repeatedly explained that the bonuses are thought for “children from Greek parents.”
His – and ND? – racist approach grew even bigger when he responded to an anonymous commentator asking him to not give benefits and allowance “to families of gypsy origin.”
Forgetting that the Roma in the country are Greek citizens with equal rights, Kyranakis clarified “bonuses will be paid only to Greek children.”
via left.gr
The rhetoric clearly resembles the one by racist neo-Nazis of Golden Dawn that distributed food to “Greeks only.”
The man did not elaborate whether the criteria of Greekness will be following the Greek citizenship, blood- or name line or something simple like the toes…
After the outage, the man claimed it was SYRIZA that ‘ordered’ internet users to call him a “racist.”
Έδωσε γραμμή ο ΣΥΡΙΖΑ να με αποκαλούν «ρατσιστή» επειδή θα στηρίξουμε Ελληνόπουλα και Έλληνες γονείς στην πολιτική μας για το δημογραφικό.
Πιάσατε πάτο σύντροφοι. #Εκλογες_2019 pic.twitter.com/7n0kguWUDB
— kyranakis (@kyranakis) June 24, 2019
What is odd is that Kyranakis also seems to forget that no political party or government can exclude “no Greeks” from benefits and allowances, if for nothing else then due to the European Union laws.
PS It will be fun to see expats living in Greece put pressure on their governments so that Greeks aborad will also receive no benefits when they live in Germany, UK, France etc.
It should be for Greeks only.. it’s not racist.. it’s umm called being Greek living in Greece..
There are more Greeks living outside of Greece than there are in Greece. Should they be discriminated against in the countries they have made their homes? Should foreigners living and working in Greece and paying taxes here be treated as less worthy human beings?
Foreigners also have more children then Greeks Catherine, and Greeks who are not CITIZENS in other countries are NOT entitled to benefits that Citizens get.
Would you like to accelerate us becoming minority in our own country, which is coming as it is, is it not enough that we have been genocided out of Asia Minor and North Cyprus should we loose whats left of Greece too? Cause that is what will happen if we become a minority in what is called Greece today. at best a hated non-muslim minority.
check what you write as alleged ‘facts’.
Keep silencing Greeks should be the name of this website.
This Xenos basically in his comments denies the Pontian Genocide and makes its sounds like Greeks died due to a war Greece started when the Pontian Genocide i referred to took place prior to the Greco Turkish war. BUT you silence me
by refusing to allow me to rebut his stupid claim that Greeks were genocided.
how treacherous of you.
Try reading some standard history of Greece (even in Greek) or the world, and you will discover that your far right opinions are not shared by any serious historian. It’s your comments that are stupid, since they are against the facts and like all extreme nationalism ultimately promote war over peace.
ND have no economic strategy, no plans for Greece — just racist garbage that they think will appeal to the closet fascists in society. They have this in common with Trump, Orban, Salvini and the Brexit looneys. All share a hatred for the rule of law and the concept of human rights: what matters is money and power, and the ignorant pigs wielding such. (Apologies to any actual pigs, since these humans are below the level of animals.)
The birthrate of Greeks is very low, as in most of the EU. Almost all EU countries need immigrants for employment and also to keep schools open, and Greece is no exception. Moreover, the immigrant children rapidly integrate and become citizens — unless they are humiliated and deliberately excluded from opportunities in their new country. There is no way that it is statistically possible (without massive immigration flows of permanent immigrants) for Greeks to become a minority in Greece. Even in countries where this has happened by choice, such as some Arabian Gulf countries where citizens are as little as 10% of the population, the foreigners are still downtrodden and badly treated.
Greeks living in other EU countries have the full rights of citizens because they are Citizens of the EU (something that Brits are about to lose), and are entitled as a matter of law to the same benefits as nationals of each country.
Finally, the twentieth century bad experiences of Greece that you mention arose largely from the “Megali Idea” and the foolish idea of invading Turkey and expecting to defeat it. Cyprus continued the mistake with its proposed Enosis with Greece, which is when the Turks invaded. We are all still paying for these foolish nationalistic nonsenses: kindly do not repeat the stupid “thinking” that led to them.