Nikos Androulakis expressed his belief that “PASOK will be the big winner of the elections, and the result, which we will bring, will again be a surprise for the pollsters”, speaking on MEGA’s late-night show “Big Picture”. Referring to the stakes of the European elections, Mr. Androulakis emphasized: “It is good for my country to have a serious reliable opposition against 41% and not a lifestyle opposition, which is manna from heaven for Mr. Mitsotakis. In response to North Macedonia’s liberation movements, we were told that the protocols should now be ratified. Own goal from the locker room. Then they talked about zero VAT, and the New Democracy responds “okay, we have precision, but the others are going to bankrupt us”. No bankruptcy, no accuracy. Solutions, schedule, seriousness. SYRIZA has not strategically pressured the government on any issue. Tell me a defeat of the New Democracy, which is a result of today’s SYRIZA”, harshly criticizing SYRIZA.

The president of PASOK-KINAL condensed his sharp attack on the government’s accuracy with the phrase “Three points on accuracy from the government, but airball on the solutions” and argued that “a party of interests and speculation started. The criminal inaction of the government is evidenced by the following fact: until the fall of 2022 in our country general inflation followed food inflation. From that point on, while general inflation remains stable, food inflation jumps,” he added. “Because the government is unable to ensure with controls that the VAT reduction will be passed on to consumers, will the people pay multiple costs? » he wondered meaningfully.

He proposed as a solution that the VAT should be reduced by three points to bring down food prices, and then there should be a lot of checks and heavy fines for those who do not take this reduction to the shelf. It is convenient for Mr. Mitsotakis to respond to non-applicable solutions” he commented regarding the SYRIZA proposal for zero VAT.

Regarding the Prime Minister’s letter to the President of the Commission, Mr. Androulakis commented how it is “an oligarchy and a mockery for Mr. Mitsotakis to present the letter to Mrs. Von der Leyen as his own initiative, when from 2020 some European countries have asked to investigate the territorial and logistic limitations in the pricing of the multinationals”.

On foreign policy issues, he highlighted New Democracy’s fallacies by describing the different lines within the government on Kosovo, the party’s instrumentalization of Beleri’s candidacy to stem voter leaks to the right, as New Democracy officials admitted.

“I am impressed by the Greek intellectuals of the Center. Greece, which we all think should develop serious diplomacy on the issues of the Western Balkans and human rights, is with Slovakia and Orban, while the whole of Europe supported establishing a world day of remembrance of the massacre in Srebrenica? All these hypersensitive centrist intellectuals did not say a word,” he underlined.

Regarding the new leadership’s attempts to redeem North Macedonia, Mr. Androulakis claimed that “we are being held hostage because we have a “lame” agreement without a monitoring mechanism. SYRIZA should have negotiated the Prespa Agreement better, New Democracy for five years has done nothing and did not even react to the fact that the party coalition with which the new President was elected is entitled “our own Macedonia”.

Mr. Androulakis insisted on the need for a common foreign and defense policy, noting that after Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, things have changed on the European scene.

“Shouldn’t we ensure the security of Europe? This is achieved by having a European army, a common foreign policy and if we stop arming our adversaries,” he stressed.

“New Democracy is comfortable responding to “sprayed” scenarios about lost wagons and not to the serious opposition of PASOK, which notes that corruption regarding the 717 contract is the key to the Tempe tragedy. Even the three-member committee, appointed by Mr. Gerapetritis, argued that if there was remote control, the trains would not have collided. By 2023 trains were running with a safety level of the 60s. That is why we filed a request for the establishment of a preliminary investigation committee based on the opinion of the European public prosecutor. New Democracy voted against it, showing its guilt,” said Mr. Androulakis when asked about the tragedy of Tempi.

Regarding the illegal monitoring of the EYP, Mr. Androulakis reiterated that “anyone who gets in the way of the decision of the Supreme Court of the country will be brought to justice.”

“The political head of the EYP is Mr. Mitsotakis and ultimately responsible for implementing the decision of the Council of Ministers. So, I am waiting for the court decision to be implemented” concluded Mr. Androulakis. “I am a man of the foreground and do not converse with the dark. And my fight is happening because the darkness has gained ground in my homeland” he added. “What Mr. Kammenos said was reproduced from the basement of Maximos and from the basement of Koumoundourou. Is it a coincidence?’ repeated Mr. Androulakis.