“More questions were raised than answers were given by the briefing given by the government representative, Pavlos Marinakis to the political editors”, underlines in a statement the SYRIZA-PS.

“Although he admittedly made an effort, with evasions and vagueness that expose the government and Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis personally, he tried to throw “ashes” in the eyes of the citizens, bypassing the key questions raised by the SYRIZA PS. He comments and continues: “He basically confirmed that Mr. Mitsotakis ostensibly ignores the cry of anguish of the relatives of the victims of Tempo as well as their complaints about the cover-up of the crime. It is therefore logical that he chooses to escape from tomorrow’s debate in Parliament. Mr. Marinakis spoke with “sympathy” for the relatives, understanding as he said their anger, but made it clear that the government does not intend to stand by them so that responsibilities are assigned wherever and to whom they are really found. He did not say a word about the question that the SYRIZA PS urgently asks him in relation to whether the governing majority will consent to the proposal to lift the parliamentary immunity of the former minister Mr. Karamanlis. He tried to justify the fact that they urged to share the results of the “investigation” done by Maximos to the Ministry of the Interior on the leak of the emigrants’ personal information, “so as not to leave shadows”.

“Really what they wanted to create was a murky landscape and their own convenient narrative. We even heard the… unimaginable. That Nikos Theodoropoulos, the immigration secretary of the ND had in his hands the lists of the Ministry of the Interior for months but against all logic he maintains that the ND as a party does not own them! Apparently he kept them for his personal collection. Maybe Mrs. Kerameos should answer how she can guarantee, after what happened, the integrity of the elections by mail vote? Could it be that the reason they publicized the investigation one after another was to stop it here? Does this big political scandal affect other political figures of the ruling party?”, says SYRIZA. “Mr. Marinakis preferred to remain ignorant of whether the Karatza couple traveled to the Siva Oasis in the company of the Mitsotakis family and on the prime minister’s plane, saying that he did not have in his hands… lists confirming the relevant revelations.” In other words, he told us that he didn’t take care to find out before he started informing the political editors, apparently thinking that he wouldn’t be asked the specific question that SYRIZA PS has been urgently asking since Sunday!”, he emphasizes and concludes:

“However, he must answer for what reasons the Prime Minister’s friendly couple traveled on the Prime Minister’s plane, what was the purpose of the trip (for the couple) and whether they participated in official or other contacts. SYRIZA PS will not stop demanding the truth as long as the highly taxed Greek people do not receive the answers they deserve.”