The confrontation between the Minister of Justice touched “red” earlier in the Parliament George Floridis and the parliamentary representative of the New Left Nasos Iliopouloswith the party origins of both at the forefront.

“Our difference is that when I disagreed with my party, I resigned and surrendered the seat. You, in the name of what ethics I do not know, were elected with another party and took your seats and made a new party” said the Minister of Justice, addressing the seats of the New Left.

The parliamentary representative of the New Left had preceded him to the podium Nasos Iliopoulos who “congratulated” the Minister of Justice for having managed to be “more right-wing than Velopoulos and Niki and everyone“, because “it has an allergy to scientific knowledge and scientific evidence” and this while “a key feature of the extreme right is that it cannot stand scientific knowledge”.

Mr. Iliopoulos also accused the government of “being the most profound institutional force of iniquity that has passed into the Third Hellenic Republic and which does everything for the cover-up”, referring to the wiretapping case but also to the role of the coalition in order not to summon critical witnesses for Tempe.

“You are called New Left and you think we have forgotten that you were in SYRIZA and governed. The biggest institutional deviation that the country faced in the post-colonial years was the scheme you set up to send former prime ministers, former ministers to prison. I remind Mr. Samaras, Mr. Pikrammenos, Mr. Evangelos Venizelos and other ministers. This, with the stamp of justice, was entered into the file because it turned out that you had set up a conspiracy with false witnesses just to take revenge on your political opponents who you could not face in the marble threshing floor” replied the Minister of Justice Giorgos Floridis.

At the same time, he advised Mr. Iliopoulos to avoid personal confrontations, but since Mr. Iliopoulos “labeled his political opponent”, the Minister of Justice said: “You call us more right-wing than the right-wing. But these days I observe that your argumentation, your opposition to the bill, your phraseology, is absolutely identical to the phraseology of the Spartan party, the party of Mr. Velopoulos and the party of Niki. They’re saying exactly what you’re saying.”

George Floridis also told the parliamentary representative of the New Left: “I also want to tell you the following: Do you know what the difference is, at the political level, between a “right of the most right” and a leftist? “The most right-wing of the right-wing”, like me (s.s. responding to the characterization given to him by Mr. Iliopoulos), when he disagreed with his political party on an important issue, he surrendered his parliamentary seat to the party to which he belonged. Because his seat belonged to his party. You leftists, while you were elected together with Mr. Xanthopoulos of SYRIZA, took your parliamentary seats and formed another party. You have been elected with another party, by another electoral body, and in the name of what ethics, perhaps of the Left, did you take the parliamentary seats from the party you were elected, you did not hand them over to your party and formed another party. And you are selling us spirit and morality here. That’s all”.

“Your morality is to flush the guilty from Tempe. Our morality is justice and that is why there will always be an abyss between us in morality. Good luck Mr. Floridis” commented the parliamentary representative of the New Left.

The parliamentary representative of the Hellenic Solution Konstantinos Chitas also intervened in the confrontation. “If you had said this on a TV show, we would have sent you out of court. We forbid you to call us far-right. The Greek Solution is the great democratic patriotic faction. If we are right-wing, you are center-left. We are the normal right,” said Mr. Chitas, and addressed the parliamentary representative of the New Left, introducing him:

“Deal with what you are going to build, with your party, and let us do our job, serve the Greek citizens. Are you opposing us? Are you all right?” The parliamentary representative of the Hellenic Solution, however, also addressed the Minister of Justice, George Floridis, saying: “Those with whom you are arguing here today, are those who three days ago, hand in hand, married Mitsos and Takis! Together you passed the bill for LGBTI people, together you passed the bill for illegal immigrants! And now you pretend to argue?’