The secretary of the Political Committee of the New Democracy, Pavlos Marinakis, launched a severe attack on SYRIZA and Alexis Tsipras for announcing the abolition of the Minimum Entry Base from this year:

“The announcement of SYRIZA to abolish the Minimum Admission Base as early as this year comes to drop a bomb on the Hellenic Courts a few days before the start of the exams.
This is another manifestation of the central line of SYRIZA, which advocates the downward equation, the mess and the indifference to Education.
It is the definition of vulgar politicking that SYRIZA promises to change the framework of the exams to “para five”.
It is grossly insulting to the efforts and sacrifices of children and their families, who have entered the final stretch for a life goal.
And it is deeply hypocritical for Alexis Tsipras to advertise that supposedly “excellence has shifted to SYRIZA” and to tolerate such vulgar cheap campaigns.
Since in SYRIZA they do not respect Education, nor the National Examinations, nor the elementary rules of political seriousness, let them at least respect these children.
Since they have nothing to propose for their future, at least let them stop making trouble for the new generation.”