AVP parliamentary group leader Mike Eman, during a public meeting yesterday morning, stressed the situation with pensioners and minimum wage workers, who are experiencing a drastic rise in the cost of living, which the current government is not paying attention to.
“Unfortunately today, the concept and awareness, that the most vulnerable in the country, those living on a living wage, pensioners, those on a minimum wage, all and more than 50,000 citizens, are suffering at this moment in a terrible poverty.
A poverty that started in 2017 and figures from the Central Bureau of Statistics, clearly mark that as the time when things started to change in this country, for the most vulnerable.
This is a society where every political party, every government decades ago realized that there needs to be labor laws to protect employees, to not work more than eight hours and to have a day off.
Unfortunately, today our workers have to work two jobs to earn enough money to put bread on the table for their families. This is the country that created laws to protect those who can’t afford to pay for doctors, to pay for medicines and to introduce an AZV for everyone in this country to ensure they have access to medical care.
Today, this concept of taking care of the most vulnerable people in the country, paying for their healthcare, is being destroyed step by step, and today there are adults who come to the pharmacy with five drugs that they’ve been prescribed for years, and they’re told that three of them are paid for by AZV and two are not.
A pensioner who barely has enough money to pay for all their other needs finds themselves today leaving behind two remedies causing enormous damage to their health.
This is the country that created public education, so that every child can go to school, this is the country that created subsidies for schools, byzondereskolen, SKOA gets subsidies so that our children can go to school.
Today it turns out that if parents don’t have 200, 300, 400, 500 florins to pay for school fees, the doors of schools are closed to these children – and young people. This decadence started in 2017, when in 2017 the government shifted the priorities of this country, of serving the common good, to serving private interests, other interests, rather than the general interest of this country and this people.
“As parents at this time, there is a tremendous difficulty in securing the money to reach the amount needed to pay school fees so that children can go to school, which is a deeply regrettable situation”, AVP faction leader Mike showed yesterday morning in Parliament.