SYRIZA-Progressive Alliance released its policy program for governance on Friday, ahead of elections on May 21, that is titled "Justice everywhere - For a democratic progressive rule."

It lists the interventions of the first 50 days of governance to manage the high cost of living. The program overall is focused on managing the high cost of living, raising salary earners' wages, supporting the social state with an emphasis on health and education, and settling private debt.

At the same time, a party statement said, the policy program presents a different development plan, in which wage increases, funding SMEs, and supporting research and technology play key roles.
In criticism for Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Syriza said that "the Mitsotakis government policy these past four years has created an unbearable reality for the overwhelming majority of citizens at all levels: an increase in inequalities, a reduction of disposable income, a collapse of the social state, negative records in the pandemic, and a devaluation of critical infrastructure, as the Tempi accident revealed. Added to this are the undermining of the rule of law with the phone-tapping scandal, extensive corruption, and authoritarianism."

Among the immediate measures proposed for the first 50 days of its rule, the main opposition party proposes a raise in the minimum wage in the private sector to 880 euros, an immediate rise of wages in the public sector by 10%, suspension of primary home foreclosures for properties worth up to 300,000 euros, taxation of surplus profits by energy companies and oil refineries, reduction of the fuel tax (EFK) to the lowest denominator of the European Union, and introduction of a lower VAT of 6% in foods.

Besides the measures for the first 50 days to fight price hikes, Syriza-PA proposes overhauling the energy and climate policy from the one currently implemented, it said. Measures include nationalizing the Public Power Corporation and utilizing it to reduce power costs, changing the energy mix, breaking up the energy cartel, and revising the energy market's operation (target model) to regulate pricing.

The entire program is posted on the main opposition party's web site.