ATHENS – Main opposition SYRIZA-Progressive leader Alexis Tsipras on Tuesday launched an attack against Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis in an interview with iEnergeia.gr, saying that he had made a “conscious choice [for] profiteering in the energy sector”, and reiterated his decision to transfer 51 pct of the Public Power Corporation (PPC) back to the state.

“For a year now, the government has been feeding the profiteering mechanism by fiscally bleeding the citizens with indirect taxes. This is a conscious, strategic choice by Mr. Mitsotakis, precisely because he does not dare to proceed with the required moves that will really reduce the cost of energy, but conflict with the interests of the cartel.”

Referring to the causes of the crisis, he noted that even though it was European-wide, it had been “disproportionately magnified in Greece and its consequences multiplied due to the choices and deliberate inaction of the Mitsotakis government.”