The announcement of the claim of the leadership of SYRIZA by Stefanos Kasselakis was commented on by the Minister of Labor, Adonis Georgiadis, speaking to SKAI in the morning.

“It is interesting that someone who has lived the American dream is running for SYRIZA president. If I understood correctly, Mr. Kasselakis went to America poor, but after 10 years he was able to get a personal guarantee loan to buy a ship. It’s not that simple This is not a simple case. This means that he had managed to acquire a huge fortune within a decade. This is the power of capitalism, I would say to Mr. Kasselakis. This is an oxymoron for SYRIZA,” said Mr. Georgiadis.

“I have avoided making any comment regarding SYRIZA internal parties. I will do the same now. I have to say only about the video you showed, that the embodiment of the American dream and the success of the capitalist system is Mr. Kasselakis. Now if Mr. Kasselakis, who obviously has very good communicators and is accurate from what I can see because this video is not made on a mobile phone, this one has a tripod, make-up artist, lights, digital processing… He has spent many thousands of euros to make this video. The man has money, it’s good to enjoy it, no objection”, he added.

Adonis Georgiadis pointed out: “I am interested in the political aspect. The gentleman you see is the embodiment of the success of capitalism. A capitalist SYRIZA candidate. I like it. Capitalism I like has never hidden it. Whether he will be elected will be decided by the SYRIZA electoral body. I won’t decide that.”

When asked if SYRIZA is trying to become something similar to the Democrats in the USA, he answered: “We have such a party in Greece, it is supposed to be PASOK. It’s nothing new. You are telling me that SYRIZA should become PASOK. That’s how I translate it. Again, it is something that the voters of SYRIZA will judge, I will not judge it.”

And he added that: “It is good for the country to stop the toxic confrontation of the parties, when we talk about programmatic issues, to not be afraid to say that I worked at Goldman Sachs, that I am a shipowner, that I got a loan from a bank and it was good, my he gave the loan and I got the ship, it’s positive things. But it is not very SYRIZA. But they will judge that.”

Regarding the fact that Mr. Kasselakis has the support of Pavlos Polakis, he replied: “These are people’s personal tastes. I am very open about things, I never criticize. They are personal matters.”

Regarding Mr. Kasselakis’ attack on Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Adonis Georgiadis said: “It makes me a bit strange. When you have grown up in Ekali, well, let me cry a little. I am telling you that I also grew up in Ekali, but I have not started crying. I too lost my parents, I too after growing up in Ekali then became poor, I too did business afterwards and entered politics. I never started crying, that I was chased by a criminal and I was found by the criminal at Goldman Sachs. Let’s be a little more understanding.”

“I say again, this gentleman has good communicators, he obviously has enough money. It is interesting that SYRIZA has an alternative proposal a man who is the most anti-SYRIZA thing anyone can imagine. This will be judged by the voters of SYRIZA. As for the crying and the complaint about Mitsotakis, I would very kindly recommend Mr. Kasselakis to stop the crying and enter with your political ideas. Stop crying, you grew up well in Ekali, just like I grew up well in a very nice climate”, he commented in closing.