“Mr. Mitsotakis, loyal to his family tradition, made sure to use his parliamentary majority to set up Special Courts for his political opponents.
But he seemed cowardly. He did not dare to expel me, his main political opponent, but only ministers of my government” commented the president of SYRIZA-PS, Alexis Tsipras, in his Facebook post after the decision of the special court for the former minister Nikos Pappa.

“Politicians are primarily judged by the people for their decisions. And if they have committed criminal offences, they should be prosecuted by their natural judge and not by the respective parliamentary majorities.

That was and remains my position and that is what I did as prime minister.

However, Mr. Mitsotakis seems to have a different opinion. He has not learned his lesson from the recent adventure of our political life, when his father was prime minister. And for reasons of obvious political expediency, he chose to reopen a dangerous and slippery road for the Republic. The road to the criminalization of political confrontation.

Let him know, however, that usually History repeats itself as a farce. And that at the end he will risk falling himself, into the pit he elaborately opened for his political opponents. The final verdict, after all, will soon be given by the Greek people” concluded Mr. Tsipras.