Armament programs, the salary of the military and the modernization of the infrastructure were at the center of the briefing given by the official opposition leader Stefanos Kasselakis and the former minister admiral e.a. Evangelos Apostolakis from the political and military leadership of the Ministry of National Defense. The briefing lasted 45 minutes.

The president of SYRIZA PS had a further special meeting with the Minister of National Defense Nikos Dendias, which revolved around national issues. The meeting lasted 40 minutes.

In his statements, Mr. Kasselakis twice thanked his political and military leadership MINISTERS for the “honest” discussion pointing out that SYRIZA wants to be productive in national matters, in the defense of the country. “For us, these are not issues of communication, but issues of the safety of the Greek man and the Greek woman,” he stressed.

Regarding the armament programs, he commented that “we are at the beginning of a long process until we reach an agreement for which there will be an update”, as Mr. Apostolakis clarified afterwards while they reiterated that they want to be productive.

The Minister of National Defense presented the leader of the official opposition with the coat of arms of the ministry, in memory of his visit as he said. The briefing was attended by the Deputy Minister of National Defense Ioannis Kefalogiannis, the entire military leadership of the Armed Forces led by the head of the Ministry of Defense General Dimitrios Houpis, the secretary general of the Ministry of Finance Antonios Oikonomou and other relevant staffs.