The announcement of the new general secretaries will be made after noon, government spokesman Pavlos Marinakis said today while briefing political editors.

He underlined that “the prime minister has said that the days have passed when candidates for parliament, that is, politicians who were not elected, entered the positions of general secretaries. This is a given and after 5 years we have seen it. With what I know, today’s announcement will confirm what the prime minister has said, without this meaning that a candidate for parliament is a priori unsuitable to be used in a position”.

Commenting on a post by the president of SYRIZA-PS Stefanou Kasselakis regarding the case with Casso, Mr. Marinakis, after saying that the Minister of Foreign Affairs has answered these objections in the morning with clarity, indicated that the recent post can either be attributed to insufficient information and carelessness of the official opposition which has also been seen in other issues, whether it is something very dangerous.

He referred to the statement of Mr. Gerapetritis that “there is clear misinformation about Kaso. There was planning of an Italian ship, the program was completely completed, there was absolutely no retreat, it conducted its research in Greece’s maritime EEZ, permission was never requested from Turkey, nor was there any recognition of Turkey’s sovereign rights.”

He also said that the reproduction of this propaganda and logical misinformation is not an opposition to the government, it is not an opposition to the ND, it is harmful to the country and we are asking very much from the time there are relevant answers, documented, to stop this tactic.

“I never remember the political leadership of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs having made so many updates to the official opposition and also to the other opposition parties,” he added.

For amendment of the Ministry of Justice on the cause of action and the accusations that the government gives amnesty to corruption crimes, Mr. Marinakis commented: “This is probably the main fake news of the week. It is the next episode from the alleged privatization of water, the alleged six-day work, the alleged ban on coverage of their own.”

He stated that the proposed draft law strengthens the control system of Law 5026 of 2023 and facilitates the obligees to enhance interoperability, that is, to be able to make both identifications and comparisons and related controls. Deadlines are extended and there is no regulation to make the regime easier for political figures.

For her deletion of Pavlos Polakis and the post Kasselakis said: “He could write ‘Pavlos Polakis is an idea and ideas are not deleted’ to say it all in a row”.

“What we expected to be done after a few months, Mr. Kasselakis in relation to Mr. Tsipras did it in a few days. A completely pretentious deletion which might not have happened if we didn’t have the human reaction of Mrs. Linou. In a few words, Mr. Kasselakis said in his post that guys, we have to keep up appearances in Parliament and outside Parliament if we can “let’s push them two meters under the ground” as Mr. Polakis had said. This is not a problem of Mr. Polakis, the attitude of the president of SYRIZA would have been more honest if he had kept him in the party, because I have never seen him removed with praise a few hours later. There is no sincere apology on the part of SYRIZA. It is obvious, with many samples of writing and different leaderships, that this is the dominant ideology of SYRIZA”.