The debate held yesterday at the ERT radio station lasted about three hours, with the political leaders doing their best to win the battle.

To do this, they also used rants that… stirred up social media, such as those launched by the general secretary of the KKE, Dimitris Koutsoubas, who spoke of “shepherd’s pie” and “progressive government muff».

Mr. Koutsoumbas, responding to Alexis Tsipras who spoke about cooperation that could exist between SYRIZA and the KKE, replied disarmingly: “Don’t be upset, because Mr. Tsipras is very upset at the shepherd’s pie all this pre-election period for the progressive muff government that projects it to the Greek people”.

At the same time, Mr. Koutsoumbas left sharp points for Mr. Tsipras by referring to Andreas Papandreou and Charilaos Florakis, stressing that young people should not reminisce about the past but look to the future.

The photos of Velopoulos with the “geisha Panagia and the Indian Panagia”

The leader of the Hellenic Solution showed two photos found in a 3rd grade book when asked by Antonis Schroiter if his decisions are judged only because of his orthodoxy and faith, with Mr. Velopoulos showing two images of the Virgin Mary depicted as geisha and as Indiana, stressing that “this is perversion and obscene to show to young children”.

Varoufakis’ cars that… sit

“We have two cars and they are sitting,” Yanis Varoufakis answered when asked about his movable assets and added that “if it would help to give them for recycling, let’s do it.”

Androulaki’s rant about the vulcanizer owner who became a hospital administrator under Tsipras

Also noteworthy was the speech of the president of PASOK, Nikos Androulakis, who, after Mr. Tsipras agreed with his proposal for open tenders for the administrations of hospitals and public structures, then pointed out that he received a message from an acquaintance from Santorini who told him he wrote that he was happy to hear Mr. Tsipras agreeing with the specific proposal of PASOK, as with such a development there would be no vulcanizer owner as a hospital administrator on the island, as the president of SYRIZA, who was prime minister at the time, had appointed during his administration.

Schroeter’s… tavern keeper in the question to Tsipras

Finally, a sensation was caused by the way in which Antonis Schroiter asked Alexis Tsipras to cost the SYRIZA program, telling him to do a detailed costing, such as “in the tavern you go to, for example, and the bill must have the food next to it and the cost”.

The valuation

The three-hour teleconference between the political leaders nevertheless left a positive impression on the Maximos Palace and in Piraeus as according to government officials, the prime minister was clear, calm even in the difficult questions that were put to him and knowledgeable about all the issues raised by the journalists. As government officials commented, Kyriakos Mitsotakis answered essentially every question, he did not hesitate to admit problems and boldly acknowledge mistakes and omissions while he is credited with keeping intact the narrative of the ND about the positive agenda.

Insisting on low tones, without tensions and outbursts, Kyriakos Mitsotakis focused for most of his positions on the programmatic agenda of the ND, on the pursuits and goals for the future, despite the constant attacks from Alexis Tsipras and Nikos Androulakis , refrained from returning fire, but focused on solutions the next day as well.

Koumoundourou’s assessment of Alexis Tsipras’s impression in the three-hour discussion of the political leaders is also positive, since the president of SYRIZA also remained “faithful” to the pre-election tactics he follows against his political opponents and especially against the government, which is none other than from the attack. He followed this tactic in ERT’s studio “4” by promoting the issues of the economy and trying to highlight the “weak points” of the government’s policy by emphasizing the SYRIZA’s programmatic tripartite: salary increase, debt settlement and price reduction and focusing especially on middle class and the impact that government policy has on this.

Harilaou Trikoupis was also satisfied, considering that Nikos Androulakis was the only political leader who set a programmatic framework with clear answers to the questions, highlighting PASOK’s commitment to move the country into a new programmatic era and considering that the other political leaders were limited either to generalizations either in a game of cheap impressions.

All the political leaders, however, on the only point they agreed on was the call to the youth to participate in the elections and vote.