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LEFT OPPOSITION Founded less than a year ago by Stefanos Kasselakis, on Thursday May 10 in the large “Yannis Ritsos” hall of the Town Hall of Egaleo, a popular suburb of Athens and one of the strongholds of the left, presented its Program for the Disabled.

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6 + 1 Proposal for the disabled

Six and One main points:

1. Education, 2. work, 3. inclusion, 4. autonomy (independent living), 5. health, 6. mobility assistance and internet access. And, the main one: Raising public awareness.

Representatives of various Associations and people with difficulties (motor skills, deaf, blind), as well as parents with children in difficulty, presented, sometimes with great emotion, their problems of daily life. The discussion with the audience, around 150 people, also revealed a number of interesting aspects. Among the most frequently listed: frequent divorces (e.g. 87% of fathers leave their wives and families with autistic or Down’s syndrome children), inadequate or non-existent social security cover, pensions, lack of sign language translators, narrow sidewalks…

The party has 6 seats in the Hellenic Parliament, (300 deputies in total), and after a painful period of split with Syriza, (Pro-European Left), for a long time the largest opposition party, presents a remarkable new dynamic.