As, from the side of the Hellenic Solution, the issue of vote poaching was raised, especially in the region of Eastern Attica, Makis Voridis said, addressing the Hellenic Solution: “Why are you bringing it up? Are you concerned about this issue? The King of Spain does not vote in East Attica, as far as I know”
Regarding the capacity in which he attended the funeral of “the late Konstantinos”, the Minister of the Interior responded Makis Voridis, in his intervention today in the Plenary. “The government was represented at the highest level, by its vice-president and the Minister of Culture, Mrs. Mendoni. For the rest, if you ask me why or how I was there, I tell you that I had an invitation from the family, with members of which I am socially connected. I hope you will allow me,” said Mr. Voridis and added: “I don’t know why we are discussing this here. From there, you tell me if he attends, as the minister of the interior. The truth is, I don’t quit and redeploy, in my lifetime. That is, to say my sin, when I go to a social event, I go as Makis Voridis but, if they ask me if I have a political capacity or a government office, the truth is that I do, at that time.”
As, from the side of the Greek Solution, the issue of vote poaching was raised, especially in the region of Eastern Attica, the Minister of the Interior said, addressing the Greek Solution: “Why are you bringing it up? Are you concerned about this issue? The king of Spain he does not vote in Eastern Attica, as far as I know.”
Regarding the government’s decision, regarding the funeral of the former King Constantine, Makis Voridis said that “a decision was taken by the prime minister, apparently after weighing a number of factors, legal and other”. As many times in the last few hours there have been comments that the funeral of the former king did not have the image of a private funeral, the Minister of the Interior hastened to comment: “Listen, if – knock on wood – I die tomorrow, it is certain that ten or fifteen heads of state they won’t come to my own funeral. I don’t know about yours, I’m talking about mine. So obviously it is about the funeral of a person who was a king and is connected by family, with many royal houses, this is the reality. This is happening. What should we do now; So I did not understand, in this regard, the magnitude of the discussion. Because this starts with the Left putting out a reflex for the polity we sit and discuss. I mean, unrelated things. But here we are dealing with a specific thing. Constantine passed away. That’s what we’re dealing with. All the rest, I don’t understand why anyone faces it with fear.”
“I will accept that the political and historical evaluations, when a person dies, who has played a political role, will obviously be done for everyone. Opens a discussion about the story. But to say that this is an active political issue, eh, is not an active political issuea. It is a discussion of historical value,” said the Minister of the Interior and added that it is not normal to have a discussion as if the ceremony were a matter of state.
On the occasion of estimates that the government is in retreat and collapsing, Makis Voridis said that this is not confirmed in any opinion poll, and today “the thousandth opinion poll is published that shows that the difference with SYRIZA is widening again, MeRA25 is once again cancerous and does not seem to enter the Parliament while the Greek Solution is still in a very small percentage”.
Earlier, the president of the Hellenic Solution Kyriakos Velopoulos had mentioned the funeral of the former King Constantine and the presence of members of the government and parliamentarians. “The only party that maintained an institutional stance and position was the Hellenic Solution. We made an announcement. We said that she should be buried with the honors of a head of state, because she was a head of state, but her president will not go to the event, to the burial. What is more serious for a party president to support both the institution and the human, but also not to be carried away by vote-seeking tendencies like that of Voridis, the royalists of Eastern Attica and for the minister to go there as a private person?”, said Kyriakos Velopoulos and added : “From now on, know: Whoever wants will go as a private person wherever he wants. He will disrobe as an MP, go to the event and come out as an MP. These are graphics. These are not serious things. But now can I tell you something? I expect everything from Mr. Voridis. What he said, what he did, what he is doing. I expect everything from the minister, because Komanetsi is pale in front of him, since we are talking about athletics, Mrs. Sakoraffa, pale in the ass.” The president of the Hellenic Solution even made use of a pun about the presence of ND MPs, yesterday, in the Metropolis of Athens. “Along with the royals, the pots of the New Republic were also watered! The problem with New Democracy is that it has no political fertilizer and is withering and on the wane. And no matter how much he waters the basilisks, the pot is finished,” said Kyriakos Velopoulos.
In the same climate, the parliamentary representative of the Hellenic Solution, Antonis Mylonakis, spoke about the ND’s attempt to attract “the votes of the royalists of Eastern Attica” and called on the present minister to clarify, “if he went to the Metropolis yesterday taking off the minister’s jacket and putting on the privateer’s jacket.”
The parliamentary representative of PASOK-Movement for Change, Kostas Skandalidis, mentioned in his intervention what should be remembered and not lost in oblivion. “The former king, during the three years and eleven months that he was the supreme ruler of the country, managed: First, to force Karamanlis into self-exile with the cry “Who rules this country?”. Second, to urge the movement of IDEA in the Army, to accuse Andreas Papandreou of ASPIDA then, which he used as the main reasoning to expel the prime minister of 53% and bring the apostasy in Greece that led to Iuliana and junta. Thirdly, he practically swore – as he should not have as the protector of the state and supreme ruler – the junta. And fourthly, he never accepted not only the result, but there was also a whole process and complaint, which was never refuted, that there were moves by the officers to bring down Karamanlis after 1974″, said Kostas Skandalidis.
“It is clear that we are facing the media restoration of the deposed and indeed already dead king,” commented MeRA25 parliamentary representative Kleon Grigoriadis and added that “three out of ten Greeks wanted a king in 1974. Fortunately, seven out of ten told him to go from where he was he came”. The parliamentary representative of MeRA25 also commented on the presence of politicians and businessmen at the funeral procession in the Metropolis of Athens. “What else but courtiers, blue-blooded were the shipowners, the well-known Greek shipowners such as Mr. and Mrs. Vardinogiannis or Mr. Prokopiou, but also several others from the rest of the parasitic Greek so-called businessmen, who gave their “present” with the one way or another at the ex’s funeral? If I’m not mistaken, it took you, Mr. Minister, who represent the government, to pay your respects there at some point,” said Mr. Grigoriadis.
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