Parliament: Bra de fer Mitsotakis – Tsipras – At the end of 4 years the elections

By Penelope Galliou

Electoral speech, face to face confrontations on all the burning issues that concern the political scene, current events and the country, included the marathon debate of the political leaders in the Parliament, causing face-to-face clashes between the prime minister and the official opposition leader and inevitable comparisons between the policies he practices the ND government during the three years of its government, with the corresponding policies of the government SYRIZA. A scene with an accounting character but also with a strong pre-election flavor, which, however, for the umpteenth time the prime minister “sparked” it and from the Parliament’s step, referring the elections to the end of the government’s constitutional term, at the end of the four-year period, unyielding from the commitment of.

“I have told you many times that the elections will be held at the end of the four years and you seem not to listen. But life itself will confirm my words. From then on when the time of the elections comes we will indeed say what we remember from four years of Tsipras: taxes, pension cuts and lies, lies” said the Prime Minister responding to the repeated and pressing demand of the official opposition leader for an early appeal to the polls.

“It is time to stop plucking the daisy and declare with democratic honor that the country will be led to elections in September. Let’s agree on the terms and rules of the electoral contest” called o Alexis Tsipras Kyriakos Mitsotakis, speaking of the need for political change. “Enough three years. The dilemma is ballot boxes whenever you set them up is simple. Political change and the nightmare end or nightmare without end” he emphasized, repeating his slogan against the ND government.

However, the prime minister raised the dilemma of the next elections, regardless of when they will be held, pointing out that “if the dilemma of the next elections concerns stability and security, then I am afraid that you are starting from a very disadvantageous position in terms of how Greek society perceives its successes Greek government”.

The actions of ND- SYRIZA

At the center of the political debate was the course of the Greek economy, with special references to the social policy exercised by the ND government during its three years of government and indeed under the pressure of the crises it had to face, starting with the pandemic but also in following the international energy crisis and precision crisis caused by the war in Ukraine, with the two political leaders contrasting the policies pursued by their parties.

“We bottomed out at 650 and took him to 713. SYRIZA overtaxed the middle class to cut or reduce over thirty taxes. He made 17 cuts to pensions. Since the summer 19 and then only increases” said the prime minister harshly criticizing the choices of the SYRIZA government. “In 2015, people were crowding outside the banks. I could just start with the images of the elderly who were crying,” the prime minister recalled, also recalling what happened during the Tsipras government’s referendum “You sent the Greek people to the ballot box to say no and do a grandiose tumbling and bring a third memorandum,” he noted, with Alexis Tsipras looking back to the period before 2015. “Instead of talking about what you delivered to us in 2015 and being ashamed, ask us for the rest,” he said, addressing the faction of the ND while referring to the current energy crisis, the president of SYRIZA spoke of Mitsotakis accuracy “The average energy inflation in the EU is at 39% and in Greece it is at 61. This 22% is Mitsotakis accuracy” he said.

Peak point and the national ones

” favor” of American President Joe Biden to Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan. “Your plane didn’t land and we heard President Biden say that there will be an F-16 sale and upgrade,” the SYRIZA president remarked, with the prime minister replying, “You’re referring to a long process that is apparently still in congress today there is no disposition to approve.” Kyriakos Mitsotakis also shot down SYRIZA’s criticism of the government’s foreign policy, posing the question “If Greece was so damaged and Turkey so gained, how can I explain Erdoğan’s crude interference in internal affairs and the urge not to vote for Mitsotakis?”.

Alexis Tsipras also criticized the sending of defense material from Greece to Ukraine, with the prime minister meaningfully pointing out that “If we didn’t send, we would be the only ones in Europe and the only one who would be happy with it would be Putin”, leaving spikes for the stop of Koumoundourou.

Heavy talk about Novartis

The confrontation was also sparked by the judicial developments in the Novartis case.

Closing his statement, the official opposition leader called the prime minister unrepentant. “Mr. Georgiadis said an apology, you nothing, you didn’t say an apology. I didn’t say that someone is guilty until proven guilty. I was saying I wish he was innocent. You called them gang members, underworld. You are doing the same now for Mr. . Papagelopoulos. You haven’t put your mind to it. Until proven guilty, Papagelopoulos is innocent, justice will judge, not you. Are you serious? You are the prime minister of the country. Take an attitude of responsibility,” he said.

The prime minister responded to the fire of the SYRIZA president by emphasizing that “There is an indisputable fact. And that is that two leading former ministers of SYRIZA, very close associates of yours, are being brought to the special court with serious criminal offenses. They did not recommend him for Nobel (p. p. Mr. Papagelopoulos), he goes to the special court for a felony and you applaud him. Mr. Papagelopoulos is referred for abuse of power and gross interference with justice in order to target political figures without evidence and for the Novartis case as well as for other methods Nice bud you chose as Minister of Justice” he said addressing the SYRIZA wing. Escalating his attack on Mr. Tsipras, Mr. Mitsotakis pointed out that “a special court will be set up and those who will sit on the bench are your infamous moral advantage. This is sitting on the bench of the special court, this dark period that you attempted to control the joints of power. The institutions resisted, democracy resisted” he noted and added “”I will take you to the end”, you said. There will not be a second time for you because the first time was so traumatic. The Greek people have a crisis and compare and he knows well who brought the country out of the impasse and kept democracy strong” concluded the prime minister”.

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