Mitsotakis: Water companies to return to public control after elections
The Athens and Thessaloniki water utility companies will return to public control after the forthcoming elections, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has said.
“Water is and will remain a public good,” Mitsotakis underlined, in an interview with private TV broadcaster SKAI.
Stating that SYRIZA had transferred the Athens and Thessaloniki water companies to the so-called Superfund of state assets for 99 years, Mitsotakis said “the government will fully respect the decision of the Council of State and these two companies will leave the Superfund and return to the Greek government.”
The Athens and Thessaloniki water utility companies, known as EYDAP and EYATH respectively, will return to public control after the forthcoming elections, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has said.
“Water is and will remain a public good,” Mitsotakis underlined in an interview with private TV broadcaster Skai on Saturday.
Stating that main opposition SYRIZA had transferred the Athens and Thessaloniki water companies to the so-called Superfund of state assets for 99 years when it was in government, Mitsotakis said, “The government will fully respect the decision of the Council of State and these two companies will leave the Superfund and return to the Greek government.”
He also expressed his optimism that citizens will again trust New Democracy in order to form a strong single-party government and noted that the government will continue to support households and businesses for as long as the inflationary crisis lasts.
He also stressed that 60,000 businesses that currently do not have access to bank loans will now be able to access them, because the development bank will do the job of evaluating them.
