By Yannis Anifantis

The Minister of Social Cohesion and Family called on Niki’s MP, Nikos Papadopoulos, to retract his statement yesterday that “we will see worse” after the New Democracy MP was slapped in a church in Kavala on Sunday. Sophia Zacharakisat the start of the Social Affairs Committee meeting.

The Minister spoke of “hate speech that is not consistent with the temple of democracy”, calling on the MP to “retract the statement he made yesterday”, as she cannot accept that “members of parliament can cultivate such a climate especially before the next few days that we will all go to our regions”.

Despite the “unequivocal” condemnation of violence, which he repeated in his statement in the peristyle of Parliament this morning, Nikos Papadopoulos he insisted that “when you legislate against nature, Orthodoxy, the Holy Scriptures and the Church, you collect the proceeds”. “That’s what I told you. What don’t you understand?” said the Niki MP, referring to the law on the civil marriage of same-sex couples.

“I don’t know if you are uninvited representatives of the Church or if you were asked by the Church itself because I imagine that nothing like that happened,” the Minister commented emphatically, with herself re-reading the MP’s statement and N. Papadopoulos answering ” these are excerpts, we said montage of the ND”.

On behalf of SYRIZA, he condemned every attempt to incite violence Katerina Notopoulouemphasizing that “they will find us all united against each other”.