By Yannis Anifantis

Nikos Androulakis was the main recipient of the prime minister’s trilogue, with Kyriakos Mitsotakis targeting the PASOK president’s complaints about arrogant attitudes in the government, repeating that such attitudes are not acceptable. “If there are – that there can be arrogant attitudes – those are not acceptable to me. And I have proven it,” the prime minister emphasized, picking up the gauntlet thrown at him by Nikos Androulakis regarding the acceleration of the exit from the Maximos Palace: “But you come with the enthusiasm of your election and the opinion polls that show you second to tell us what? Make it easy for us and open the door for us to leave and I guess you can come. Come with me – as Ms. Tsapanidou used to say. Your ambition is legitimate, but this will be decided by the sovereign Greek people in 3 years. So here we will be.”

Earlier, Kyriakos Mitsotakis had made it clear that the government will soon introduce legislation for the state funding of the Spartans, stressing that “PASOK’s amendment had some weaknesses that we must examine. Please be patient and we will file the arrangement.” In fact, he recalled that PASOK together with SYRIZA voted in 2019 for a regulation that disconnected funding from the electoral process.

Referring to the government’s proposal for the Ombudsman, he pointed out that the process of finding a majority has taken much longer than expected, repeating that Mr. Sotiropoulos is the government’s proposal. “It will come to a vote within the next week when you will be appointed, I don’t want to prejudge your decision, I hope your attitude will be positive,” he said addressing Mr. Androulakis.

The prime minister did not leave Nikos Androulakis’ report on PASOK’s role in 2010 unaddressed: “When you go back to 2010, yes history will write that the country went bankrupt during your days and history will write that in 2009 you voted for a budget with increased spending. You didn’t just say it, you put it into practice and four months later, unfortunately, the country fell into your hands.”