“The withdrawals at the moment are damaging, because we want a strong official opposition. The percentage by which SYRIZA is judged is the percentage we got in the last national elections”, said the member of the Political Secretariat of SYRIZA – Progressive Alliance Thanasis Theocharopoulos on the SKAI show “TODAY”.

“The goal is not to defeat Mr. Mitsotakis in the European elections, is to pass 17.8%, to be a second party. The first milestone is the European elections, if we are below 17% there is a problem,” he said

“We’ve had a leader for two months, I won’t say there’s a leadership problem”he added and completed “Fragmentation at the moment does not help, we need unity, extroversion, to speak politically”.

Asked about the new tax bill, he said: “The government is trying to pass through the anabumboula what he considers to be too difficult for society to pass.”

“I agree with same-sex marriage and procreation”

About him marriage of same-sex couples and the appointment of former Prime Minister Antonis Samaras commented:

“With same-sex marriage, it is clear that we have been pushing the government for a long time to move forward because the SYRIZA government has also moved forward with many issues. We did how many rights and same-sex marriage remained, I agree with same-sex marriage. Regarding adoption, I think we should see equal rights at all levels and all the people in our country.

The position of Mr. Samaras blackmails the government. The former prime minister of the country in a matter of rights tells Kyriakos Mitsotakis that ‘you don’t have the majority on your own’ and even mentions Kostas Karamanlis. Kyriakos Mitsotakis cannot be with the extreme Right and the center at the same time”.

About issue of surrogate mother stated that “we need to look at legal safeguards”

Invited to comment on it placement of Antonis Samaras on the Greek-Turkish issues he said:

“I consider it another form of blackmail against the government, it is a hostage. For four years he has not brought the three memmons with North Macedonia because for so many years Antonis Samaras and his like-minded people have been telling him that ‘you cannot bring them’ while Dora Bakoyannis says that ‘we will honor and abide by the Prespa agreement’. SYRIZA will never criticize New Democracy like Samaras does to Mitsotakis.

Finally, regarding Erdogan’s visit to Athens on December 7, Mr. Theocharopoulos stated that “I hope the government is not unprepared for this visit by Erdogan”