By Antonis Anzoletou

SYRIZA goes on the counterattack with the issue of Agreement of Prespa against the government. After directly challenging the president of North Macedonia, Gordana Silianowska, which called the country “Macedonia” during its inauguration, the official opposition plans, according to information, to submit a proposal for a law to ratify the three agreements which the majority has left for five years “in a drawer”, as emphasized by Koumoundourou. It is pointed out that Rena Dourou had filed a question on the same issue in mid-February.

With this move, it is clear that SYRIZA is trying to put pressure on Maximos in the run-up to the elections and at the same time cause rifts in the government, knowing that the former prime minister, Antonis Samaras, has reacted in the past. Deputies in Northern Greece will also be heavily pressured. In Koumoundourou, they prioritize this issue as an absolute priority, as it was one of the top strategic moves of the government of Alexis Tsipras. “Without taking into account the political cost he suffered”, they note.

The former Minister of Foreign Affairs also made a related post, Nikos Kotzias: “The parties that understand the strategic importance of the Prespa Agreement, let them immediately put to a vote the memoranda of cooperation with North Macedonia”.

Already the SYRIZA on Sunday he went on the counter-attack and in a statement said: “We call on the Mitsotakis government to abandon its passive attitude and deal immediately, with rigor, on the basis of the provisions of the Agreement and by mobilizing all available diplomatic means at the international and European level, any use of terms or actions by the new President and the members of the new Government of North Macedonia violate the Prespa Agreement – especially its constitutional name. This new diplomatic failure of the country bears the signature of the Mitsotakis government Kyriakos Mitsotakis so that we don’t get to this point? Nothing at all, only petty political communication. Neither the Memorandums were ratified, nor was the Supreme Cooperation Council ever convened – despite the provision for one a year – which would lead to the convocation of dozens new agreements, thus strengthening the influence of our country.At the same time, the government did not exert pressure to ensure that North Macedonia would implement its obligations for school books, trademarks, passports and car plates. All she did all these years was avoid any active involvement with the Accord in order to maintain her internal party balances.”