From the presentation of the assets of the official opposition leader, Stefanou Kasselakisthe interview of the Minister of State began Akis Skertsouon Monday night, at Kontra Channel.

“One cannot be satisfied with this TV show. This does not constitute the institutional procedure of filing the declaration of assets that binds all debtors. I don’t think we should have come to this point and done it this way. It does not constitute a formal filing. We have no knowledge of the actual data,” was his introductory comment.

In fact, to the observation that the submission platform is closed, he replied that the debtor has the possibility to submit his statement in writing. “He could have done it in the context of the moral obligation that he himself admits that he has as the new leader of a party, the official opposition party”, argued Akis Skertsos and continued:

St. Kasselakis “must produce a new moral model and ethical example. He did this after a lot of pressure and not because it is any whim of ours. This is what the Constitution says, this is what our laws say, that political figures must disclose their financial status. I don’t know, I don’t understand why something different should apply to Mr. Kasselakis.”

In particular, “Mr. Kasselakis is being checked for the initial declaration of assets that a political person must make when assuming a specific institutional role. Mr. Mitsotakis has testified twenty times. For twenty years he has been scrutinized as a political person for his financial situation, he has been scrutinized. He has also been scrutinized by the SYRIZA governments who for five years had personally targeted him and his wife.

Despite the rumours, the defamation, the conspiracy theory, the publications, the yellowing, nothing was found”, the Minister of State pointed out and described as “sad”, as he said, the fact that “a young man, like Mr. Kasselakis, who it comes from abroad with other performances, it has been absorbed so quickly by the soul of SYRIZA and by polarization. We also pointed out when he was running for the leadership, that the toxicity that was condemned last year at the polls and which is a big problem for the way in which SYRIZA politicizes and opposes, unfortunately has not been abandoned by Mr. Kasselakis”.

To the question of whether the ND transfers toxicity to the political confrontation, Akis Skertsos answered as follows: “We try to speak with honesty, with documentation, not to say other things and do other things. I see too many contradictions in the political presence of Mr. Kasselakis and I am very sorry for that,” he also found.

He brought, as an example, the attitude of SYRIZA in the case of the Spartan party, where “it did not submit a memorandum to the court, as it should have, to prohibit its participation in the European elections. It was submitted by the New Democracy”. Another example, according to Mr. Schertsos, is the financial proposal of the official opposition: “He says that we should not go to memorandums again and bankrupt the country, but he submits a proposal that costs 45.8 billion euros. Again with spare trees, again without cost, again to throw the economy on the rocks?”, he asked, closing the relevant passage.

At another point in the interview, the Minister of State, when asked whether New Democracy will make public the money it allocated for the advertising expenditure of the pre-election period, was categorical: “We are not going to hide anything.” While about the debts of the ND he said that they are completely regulated and serviced.

In finance, when asked to take a position on why the government does not reduce VAT, why it does not reduce indirect taxes in general, the Minister of State cited widespread tax evasion as one of the reasons. However, over a period of five years, Greece controlled inflation better than other European countries, he argued.

And for the political context of the European elections, he finally noted that “as long as the European Commission and the European Parliament set the right priorities for the issues and problems that affect, create insecurity in the lives of European citizens, the influence of systemic parties will increase and not of the anti-systemic and extreme voices.

Extreme, far-right or far-left voices get stronger, as long as we blow the whistle indifferently on the problems we are told the citizens have. On security, on immigration, on income-eating precision, on jobs,” he concluded.

SYRIZA: Who and how pays Mr. Greenberg and the very expensive ND advertising campaign?

His answer was immediate SYRIZAwith the official opposition party issuing a sharp announcement against Akis Skertsou, whom it ironically describes as “Inspector Clouseau”.

“The lascivious Minister of State Akis Skertsos, who in the last 24 hours demonstrated his knowledge about the quality of detergents and undertook the mud attack against the Leader of the Official Opposition, seems to have lost his voice”, notes Koumoundourou, adding that “we have no considering another party which with a debt of 500 million euros – the highest debt of any party in Europe – can waste more money than any party in Germany and Italy for these European elections”.

The question remains and after the panicked embarrassment of Mr. Schertsou it becomes more deafening: who and how is paying Mr. Greenberg and the very expensive advertising campaign of ND and why are these invoices not made public (they exist, right?)”, SYRIZA concludes. .

Koumoundourou’s announcement in detail:

The lascivious Minister of State Akis Skertsos, who in the last 24 hours demonstrated his knowledge about the quality of detergents and undertook the mud attack against the Leader of the Official Opposition, seems to have become speechless (Kontra Channel, 3/6/24).

As long as he was comparing detergent grains, he did not “see” the inconceivable sums spent by his party in the run-up to the elections in advertising expenditure: 192,000 euros in the last 30 days, only on Google, an amount more than double the amount spent by all the other parties together!

While the Minister of State pretended to be Inspector Clouseau in order to “reveal” the social contacts of Stefanos Kasselakis, he did not take care to ask if and how Mr. Greenberg is paid, as the exact relationship between Mr. Mitsotakis and the well-known communication expert eludes him.

Although SYRIZA – Progressive Alliance insistently asks this specific question.

At least, Mr. Skertsos reassured us that ND’s debts are “absolutely regulated and serviced”. However, he doesn’t know details about that either. It would be good for him to know them, because we cannot think of any other party which, with a debt of 500 million euros – the highest debt of any party in Europe – can waste more money than any party in Germany and Italy on these European elections.

The question remains, and after Mr. Schertsou’s panicked embarrassment, it becomes more deafening: who and how is paying Mr. Greenberg and the ND’s very expensive advertising campaign, and why are these invoices not being made public (are they?)?

Kasselakis raises the gauntlet – “Make your debt settlement terms public now”

Stefanos Kasselakis himself joined the “dance” of statements, with the president of SYRIZA “raising the gauntlet” and publicly calling on the blue faction to “now make public the terms of its debt settlement”.

“Let the Greek people learn how the most over-indebted party in Europe, which owes half a billion euros and is running the most expensive online campaign in Europe, governs,” he said in a post on social media.