“Mr. Androulakis is politically tight-lipped and thinks he will score points by criticizing his initiatives SYRIZAsuch as the one for the ratification of the memoranda resulting from the Prespa Agreement”, the press representative of SYRIZA-PS emphasized in an interview with the radio station Talk Radio 989, Voula Kehagia.

“He’s wrong, though. And we are not only saying this to PASOK, we are also saying it to the government of Mr. Mitsotakis”, he added, commenting that “if he brought the memoranda to the Parliament for a vote in the last five years, why does he do it month after month in order to support the internal party imbalances of the New Democracy, the situation would be different”.

“What does the statement of Mr. Voridis mean that if they bring the memoranda, he will vote for them? The government says that they will not denounce the Agreement but they will not bring the memoranda to a vote either. This is a statement that confirms the multilingualism of the government. Every minister, every member of the ND says something different in relation to the Prespa Agreement. The truth is that the government will not denounce the Agreement even though, as it says, it is a “bad Agreement”, because in fact it supports it. But he will never say this publicly, because he insulted her and fought her, for petty party reasons, in 2019″, he said characteristically.

Continuing, V. Kehagia stated:

“The ratification of the three memoranda, for which the government of Mr. Mitsotakis is consciously obstructing, would encourage and strengthen our own argumentation. The government played the Greek people and especially the Northern Helladians. He rallied behind conservative and far-right voices in 2018-19, participated in rallies and ignited the political climate just to reap political benefits. In the background, we all know that Mr. Mitsotakis had then sent the ND representative, Mrs. Spyrakis, to meet Mr. Zaev in Brussels to tell him “leave the Tsipras government now, don’t discuss with them, when we take over power, let us both find it, don’t solve the problem now”. And that was never denied.”

Regarding the European elections and the current percentages of opinion polls, he emphasized that “the stake of the European elections is the political upheaval”. “The opinion poll data of 2023 showed a lead of ND over SYRIZA by a few points.

However, these were overturned in May 2023, after the elections brought a boost to ND’s percentages and a suffocation of SYRIZA, in relation to the polls. Therefore, even now the polls may fall out. If the percentages of the ND decrease and those of SYRIZA increase, there will be a balance in the political system. And this will be the beginning of the political upheaval and the primacy of SYRIZA in the next national elections, when they will be held”, he added.