Post on Facebook about the fierce fight he had yesterday in the Parliament with Olga Kefalogianni and “he’s going to hell!!!” which he spoke to a Parliamentary Committee on the bill of the Minister. Tourism, said the MP of the New Left, Theano Fotiou.

In it she explains that the expression was not heard during the discussion about , but when her intervention ended.

“My intervention ended, I turned off the microphone and uttered an expression of indignation, certainly without referring to either the Minister or the House, for this I was not given any indication from the Bureau. This is to restore the truth about morals and style,” says Theano Fotiou characteristically.

The post in detail

“The Minister of Tourism, with tensions in the committees, is trying to divert the discussion from the major problems of tourism that this bill exacerbates.
Speaking to the Parliamentary Committee on the S/N of the Minister. of Tourism “Strengthening tourist infrastructure and education, updating the profession of guides, etc.”
before I spoke about the draft law I referred to the incident of tension that was created, that is to say the facts.

Events which start from the second reading of the bill concerning the hearing of extra-parliamentary bodies when the Minister, in violation of the Parliament’s regulations (article 66, paragraph 7), interrupted the representative of the Panhellenic Federation of Hoteliers to reprimand her saying ” you’ve escaped.” There for the first time and always referring to the bureau, I said that the Minister is violating the regulation. Nevertheless, she continued and completed her intervention.

After a few hours, during the third, article-by-article reading of the bill and after the Minister had positioned herself for the bill, the positions of the deputies began. So after Mrs. Vetta’s position, the Minister again took the floor in violation of the Parliament’s regulations to comment on Mrs. Vetta’s position. Then again I referred to Mr. President telling him that he should not allow the violation of the rules of the House. That’s where my intervention ended, I turned off the microphone and uttered an expression of indignation, certainly without referring to either the Minister or the House, for this I was not given any indication from the Bureau. These to restore the truth about morals and style.

Regarding the bill I found that it does not deal with the big problems in tourism, the miserable working conditions of tourism and catering workers, the lack of 80,000 workers in the industry, the behavior of employers and the galley conditions which the Government is obviously not dealing with and the Ministry of Tourism. The bill could well be titled “No square meter of land or sea without construction for touristic overexploitation and uncontrolled profiteering of big businessmen and investment groups”, since in each article of the first three parts the maximization of construction, the circumvention of environmental conditions, the creating tourist overexploitation and uncontrolled profitability for the big hoteliers and groups. And this is happening at the same time that the citizens of this country cannot take a vacation this year, since ferry tickets have increased by 10-40% since last year and a family of four needs €2,500 for a 7-day vacation on an island. So while citizens are unable to go on holidays under the responsibility of the government, hypertourism and airbnb increase the values ​​of land, houses and rents by overburdening them, as the Bank of Greece points out.

The New Left has a clearly negative position on the government’s strategy for tourism which is also reflected in this bill because it is a tourism that is not sustainable and strengthens large hoteliers and groups at the expense of both medium and small tourism businesses and ultimately citizens and residents of tourist areas. Finally, because the Airbnb issue is critical and urgent to be resolved for the benefit of society, the New Left will table a relevant amendment and calls on the opposition parties to support it.”