Tones rose in the Parliament with rebuttals from both sides between Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Sokratis Famellos during the debate on the marriage equality bill.

Mr. Famellostaking the floor immediately after the prime minister’s speech spoke of the ND’s inadequacy to support the bill while he said that without the cohabitation agreement and its passing, the bill would not have come.

The prime minister, responding to Mr. Famello, said that “You hid the truth because you did not proceed with the reform for same-sex couples, it is called “Panos Kammenos”.

In particular, the president of KO, Sokratis Famellos, reiterated that his MPs will “support” the bill even though it is “imperfect”.

S. Famous pointed out that the KO of SYRIZA-PS is “ready for a long time to take this step”while he wondered if the ND MPs are also ready and criticized the “inadequacy” of the ND to vote for it alone.

In particular, the president of KO commented that the bill is “imperfect”, however, he emphasized that it “moves society forward” and called on the prime minister to “recognize that others opened the roads”, pointing out that “without the coexistence pact and SYRIZA’s struggles for visibility, this bill would not have come.”

For his part, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, taking the floor again in the Parliament, said, among other things, the following: “I almost cried Mr. Famelle with your interest in the cohesion of the ND KO. You referred to the fact that you actually proposed the cohabitation agreement but you concealed why you did not proceed with the legislation on civil marriage. It has a name. Panos Kammenos. You were in a balance of terror with your populist partner. From the first moment I proposed this reform, he said that as president of the ND, I am bound by the tradition of this faction to allow our MPs to vote according to their conscience on such issues. I fought to get as many of my MPs as possible to vote for it and I will respect the decision that everyone makes, either abstaining which is a perfectly acceptable position. Let’s see how many will stay away from you and finally the interest will be what Mr. Polakis will do whom you have almost threatened with deletion. I did not threaten anyone with expulsion, nor did I impose party discipline. I knew from the beginning that I cannot convince them all and the bill cannot be passed with only the votes of the ND. You have the opportunity to submit a motion of no confidence and see how broken the unity of our Parliamentary Group is. It is no coincidence that there are reactions in all parties. You didn’t talk about PASOK. Let’s see how many of PASOK will not vote. I have been impressed by the deafening silence of your leader. The reality is that with the support of more than one party it looks like this bill will be the law of the land as of tonight. It will be a great success for the national delegation if the bill is passed. A few MPs in other countries who voted against respondents admitted years later that they were wrong. I’m just saying that for the record. What we will do today as a national parliament will be an important step for democracy.”

Regarding the issue of the rule of law, Mr. Mitsotakis noted: “I do not want to spoil the atmosphere of the debate by making extensive references to the issues of the rule of law. I will only say that the final judge is neither the European Parliament, nor reporters united, nor the economist. It is the European Commission’s rule of law report that points to continued progress. We look forward to making even more progress next time.

History will write and remember the Greek MEPs who voted for a resolution asking Europe to cut funding to Greece which you instigated, wrote, invoked. The names of your MEPs will be identified with this attempt to present a Greece completely different from the one seen by the majority of Greeks. Drag the country to some people abroad.

I start to remember your own time and wonder all those MEPs leading the Netherlands which now has no country to be a citizen, when you took journalists to the selfie in your own days who were they? When you set up the novartis case where was it? When you attempted to manipulate the television landscape that was? When Mr. Pappas was convicted 13-0 for breach of duty, who exactly was Mr. Famelle?”

And then he added: “And because you made a report again to Mr. Bakoyannis and what might happen. Here, your former MEP came out and said publicly that Mr. Kasselakis can win the European elections because he thought they were held in two rounds. Land in reality.”