“A real example of political opportunism and aristocracy” is SYRIZA’s proposal that “twice offends citizens and journalists,” said Minister of State George Gerapetritis, responding on behalf of the government to the leader of the official opposition Alexis Tsipras during the discussion in Olome.
The Minister of State described the essence of SYRIZA’s proposal as “absolutely sloppy” as “five parliamentary scrutiny has already been exercised on this issue, documents have been submitted and the issue has been exhausted”. The society, he said, “obviously does not deal with the issue of the campaign but you bring it now and in fact with references to what is happening in Austria”. And he wondered “if this had not been done in Austria would you come today with this proposal?” That, he said, is “just political aristocracy and nothing else.”
“SYRIZA’s proposal is” doubly offensive to both citizens and journalists, “said Mr. Gerapetritis, adding: citizens are a herd? What kind of paternalism is this? It is considered that the citizens do not have the maturity to see to judge and compare “. Regarding the journalists, he commented “really, do you think that all journalists are of such psychology and characterization that as soon as they see some money flowing in, they immediately change their political tendency, their critical attitude? “If you believe that, say it directly and say that all journalists are ‘sold out’ if that is your answer, because that is what you are writing in your own proposal.”
The Minister of State clarified that “we are not afraid of transparency” and threw down the gauntlet to SYRIZA for the time investigation of the Commission, saying that “I think it should be an initiative of the official opposition”, and jokingly suggested “expanding the scope of Monde, Figaro, Times, Telegraph, Politico, etc., because “all of them have said words of praise for the country”.
The minister estimated that “unfortunately this opportunity that the official opposition has will unfortunately be lost” saying that the option to investigate only the period of the government of ND and not of SYRIZA is an ala carte investigation and transparency with a pre-fabricated conclusion from its proposal. recommendation, “therefore it is not accepted”.
ND “will not submit its own proposal” said Mr. Gerapetritis but “we will be there, with respect to the parliamentary procedures, with a clear choice to see any pathologies that have arisen and to be creative in how they will be treated”. “All the necessary witnesses will be called from all time horizons and there will be a full clarification as we all wish,” he noted.
He accused the main opposition MPs that if similar information campaigns were carried out in all countries, there were no such issues, blaming them for “indirectly questioning the vaccination and public health information operation”. She said “it is time to abandon the ambiguous attitude and say yes or no to informing the public and protecting against the disease. Definitely without yes but… “.
Noting that Mr. Tsipras said in his speech that “the government told us that the vaccine saves and now they are sick and vaccinated”, Mr. Gerapetritis addressed the official opposition asking “do you understand what it means today to take risks regarding the use of the vaccine? ” and added “your problem is not the process” of the “neither the polling companies, but the reality” campaign.
He denied that there was any pluralism in the media today, saying “at least half of the national newspapers today are critical of the government”.
He described as “subtle irony” Mr. Tsipras’s reports on the demolition of citizens’ trust in the state, saying that he was the one who “demolished” it during his rule and personally attacked it, calling it a “pipeline of vulgarity”.
This, said Mr. Gerapetritis, who we hear today from SYRIZA “is not because the campaign was done but because Documento did not get paid” and added “if today you want to be Documento representatives it is better to consult the director of AVGI who has succeeded against this newspaper precisely because it considered that its owner’s posts were beyond political ethics “.
He noted that for the first time 30% of the campaign, as required by law, was given to regional media and noted that this would be highlighted by the Committee of Inquiry. He also asked the official opposition party “what is happening with the information campaign announced by SYRIZA, will it happen now or will it start after the pandemic”.
Mr. Gerapetritis described today’s meeting as “historic”, reminding that the right to set up a committee of inquiry by the minority is something that ND has restored since 1927, in the Constitution and while it was a majority, and this shows “political bravery”. In fact, he characterized as “false” and “unbelievable political smuggling” the reports of the ND rapporteur George Katrougalos that this right was made with a proposal of SYRIZA and submitting the relevant proposals to the proposing Parliament, he reminded that the proposal to the revising Parliament made by SYRIZA was for the possibility of a committee of inquiry from the minority.
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