Parliament: High-profile conflict in Parliament after Syrigos’ statement on the Junta

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“The Junta did not fall from the Polytechnic University, but from the Cyprus University”, the Deputy Minister of Education stated in the Parliament – Intervention by Panos Skourletis

Political opposition with heavy characterizations and high tones broke out in the Parliament hall, on the sidelines of the debate on the passing of the Education bill, after the reports of the Deputy Minister of Education Angelos Syrigos at Junta and to Polytechnic.

The Hundred regime did not fall because of internal resistance. The Junta collapsed in ’74 under the weight of its crimes mainly under the weight of the Cyprus tragedy. The fact that at the foundation of the post-colonialism there was no overturning event was of enormous value to the quality of our post-colonial life. There were no massive gatherings, demonstrations and marches under the Junta. There were isolated actions of some brave Greeks who were treated in a barbaric way by the dictatorship. What was not done by the Greek people when the Junta existed had to be replaced afterwards. After ’74 we had our marches, our banners, guerrillas in the taverns and then we went home after we had safely fulfilled our resistance duty”said the deputy minister, raising a storm of protests and reactions in the Parliament hall.

THE Panos Skourletisas a representative of SYRIZA stated in his intervention:

“Don’t flush the Junta, you don’t deserve to hold this position! Intervention of Panos Skourletis on the reports of the Deputy Minister of Education and Religious Affairs, Evangelos Syrigos, on the anti-dictatorship struggle:

I would not have taken the floor if the previous intervention of the minister had not been really offensive to the Greek Parliament. In fact, members of the Greek Parliament today have taken the lead in the fight against the Junta.

The former President of the Parliament referred to specific events before. What to remember? The struggles of the anti-dictatorship “Riga Feraio”? Anti-EFEE? The PAK? The PAM? Law? Were these all isolated events? Or the greatness of the Polytechnic uprising that was able to and expressed the great majority of the Greek people, who demanded democracy and freedom. “Bread, Education, and Liberty”. You are here today and hold the position of Minister of Education. It is an insult to the students, to education itself in Greece, it is an insult! Rebuild!

The seven-year dictatorship followed the period of the post-conflict state, where there was a hunt for left-wing voices, democratic voices, exiles, exiles. You ignore all this, come here to rewrite history? I hope you never get that opportunity.

Of course, I separate your current position from the ND immediately after 1974 and from that of Konstantinos Karamanlis. This is a division that started with Antonis Samaras, then continued with the ministerialization of the protopalikars of LAOS and continues under Konstantinos Mitsotakis.

No, then. Because you have not come to terms with the values ​​of the Post-Revolution, you have no right to insult here in the Parliament hall, the great values ​​that still inspire, not only the new generation, but the entire spectrum of the democratic world. To rebuild. You don’t deserve to hold this position.”

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