Amendments to reduce energy costs for farmers and drug prescription checks were passed

By an overwhelming majority it was voted today (14.3.2024) for them , “Settlings on inheritances, wages and inheritance waivers, registrations and removals of consensual mortgage warrants and affidavits and on the Fund for the Financing of Judicial Buildings and the payment of legal aid cases”, in Parliament. The bill was accepted on its principle by the vast majority of MPs, coultating and opposition, who acknowledged that “for the first time in the history of the law body there is such a large transfer of legal material to lawyers”. In favor of his principle, ND, SYRIZA, PASOK and NIKO took part. The KKE together with the New Left voted against, while the Greek Solution, the Spartans and the Freedom Sea declared “present”. The bill also incorporated the amendment providing for measures to reduce energy costs for farmers and the establishment of an Electronic Pre-approval System Control Committee for the National Health Services Agency. The amendment was only voted in favour of by the ND MPs, while SYRIZA, PASOK, Greek Freedom Solution and Release, stated “present” and the KKE along with the New Left, Spartans and NIKI, voted against. Earlier, the Minister of Environment and Energy Theodore Skylakakis, defended the regulation for farmers, stressing that “the government’s commitment to favourable regulation of agricultural debts to electricity providers with a long-term 10-year repayment period and at zero rate is implemented”. “It is a mutual benefit arrangement, as it will enable RES projects that expected the issuance of a final connection offer by IPTO, to proceed directly with their implementation and, at the same time, will offer cheap to farmers, through electricity providers,” stressed Mr.Skylakis. For their part, the Opposition parties questioned both the effectiveness of the regulation, which they deliberately described as unclear, and the government’s objectives by accusing it of the alleged energy funding of farmers being used not for their own aid, but for the premium of electricity providers.