“Even if the opposition thinks this is half, we think it’s the right thing and what we want to do and we don’t agree with the rest of what the opposition says, let half vote. And when at some point the citizens decide that they can come to power, vote if they agree – we don’t agree with the rest – and the rest. “Well, what we expect from the opposition is not to have an attitude that, because we disagree about why you don’t bring everything, we don’t vote in total for what you bring, to come and vote for what will come,” he stressed in an interview on the central news bulletin of ANT1 the deputy minister to the prime minister and government representative Pavlos Marinakis.

“His executives SYRIZA, who accuse us of half-assed legislation, ruled, many of them in ministerial positions, some others were MPs, for four and a half years. They brought neither the whole nor the half. And in fact it is terrible, not many years have passed, that a supposedly conservative, supposedly extreme, supposedly far-right government, as it has been characterized many times, brings a very important initiative, which is valid in 20 countries, in terms of marriage, in Europe, and 22 countries in terms of childbearing, and what you had to say, while you did nothing, is to talk about half-legislation” he added, emphasizing that the prime minister is behaving institutionally and bringing the law within the first months of the four-year term, as he promised .

Mr. Marinakis characterized the attitude of Mr. Androulakis disappointing and below par. “At the moment we are talking, the so-called large, democratic faction, PASOK, which wants to become a responsible official opposition, in such an important issue of rights, which it always, theoretically, wants to bring, vote for and defend, does not say what is his position in the first place, whether or not he agrees with something. Will he vote for it or won’t he vote for it? He says first, he essentially reproduces petty political expressions of previous decades,” he said, inviting Mr. Androulakis to say what he will do with the bill. “This is, I think, a responsible attitude. First you say what you will do, whether you agree or not, and then you criticize, which is obviously welcome. And something very important. The prime minister emphasized from the first moment that he will not raise the issue of party discipline,” he said.

When asked about the discipline of the ministers, the government representative noted: “For the ministers, the prime minister answered that since they participate in the cabinet that approves bills, they have an increased institutional obligation.”

“But we are discussing something, because we are optimistic that it will pass, that we want to discuss this with the citizens soberly, without dividing, but by uniting. We are discussing the civil marriage of Mr. Hatzinikolaou, while at the moment we speak, the cohabitation agreement is valid. That is, from a notary public, a cohabitation contract, we go to the possibility of a civil marriage in a town hall and we discuss some children, who exist and what applies today that we are talking about? A man or a woman, since 1946 this has been the case, can alone adopt a child. The same man or the same woman can enter into a cohabitation agreement for some years and raise this child together in one home. However, if the person who is currently the parent of this child “leaves”, this child will probably end up in an institution. Well, the argument that some, without being informed, said “we don’t want them to raise children”, I don’t understand because a priori they are unsuitable for children or all heterosexual couples are suitable for children. The responsibility of the parent is very heavy. So what some people don’t want and for that we have to calmly explain to the citizens, is happening. At the moment 2 men or 2 women are raising children. So the point is to set this framework and something very important. Now the state, judges whether someone or some are worthy of adoption, according to one, Either a man or a woman or a heterosexual couple. With the new framework they will judge both of them,” he said.