Mitsotakis: No more horizontal cuts - 15,000 layoffs in 2014

"The era of horizontal cuts in salaries and pensions has ended," Administrative Reform Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis told Skai by stressing that consolidation in the Public Sector can not be done only through cuts. "We repel the logic that the only debate going on about the Public Sector is for layoffs," Mitsotakis said, adding that the essential problem is the efficiency of the State.

The minister also said that on the basis of what has been agreed with Greece’s lenders 15.000 employees must leave the Public Sector until the end of the year and the objective of redundancies will be achieved but accompanied by equivalent number of recruitments.

Mitsotakis added that when the investigation control of fake certificates and irregular conversions of fixed-term into open-ended contracts is complete, everyone will be surprised by the degree of promiscuity.

For Tsipras

"The good anti-memorandum and the bad memorandum supporters who will restore prosperity in Greece with bonuses and high lending. They are not telling where they will find the money to finance this wonderful vision," Mitsotakis said for Tsipras adding that "anyone who thinks they will borrow unconditionally is unrealistic unless SYRIZA imagines that Greece will exit the euro, will print some inflationary currency and will pay high wages."

"I do not care if Tsipras is an atheist but if he has stuck any social security stamps," he said commenting on a relevant New Democracy statement.

For Public Sector bodies to be repealed

"The debate on the repealed bodies goes back many years. There were the lists but there was no political will. In thesw difficult times we are closing down the redundant bodies that are a luxury for today," Mitsotakis said.

He also said that the largest of the 21 institutions to be repealed as non-essential is the National Road Construction Fund with 140 employees and the responsibility of the toll station in Malgara is moved to Egnatia.

For the COE

There is leakage and no outcome yet, the minister said and pointed out that the decisions of the Council of State should be respected.