To and to “Mismatched» the Minister of Health spoke on Monday morning, Adonis Georgiadiswho referred, among other things, to its deletion Antonis Samaras from the SW.

As Mr. Georgiadis pointed out, there was no one in the party who said that the former prime minister could not be deleted. “I believe that Mr. Samaras, as a very experienced politician, realizes that what he said in his interview on Sunday about Mr. Gerapetritis, the Greek-Turkish language and the prime minister himself was beyond certain limits. This is very sad for me, to be honest, of course I was very upset, but it could not be otherwise. I think that Mr. Samaras is doing himself an injustice. He was prime minister of Greece at a very critical moment, he kept Greece in the Euro, no one can take that away from him, it cannot be erased”.

Responding to whether the main reason for his deletion was the involvement of the name of Kostas Karamanlis in the nomenclature for the Presidency of the Republic, Mr. Georgiadis expressed his disagreement, noting that such a thing is pretentious, while he assessed that the deletion of Samaras does not constitute problem for the government.

“It is certainly a difficult moment for ND, many New Democrats love Antonis Samaras. But on the other hand, I don’t really know anyone who believed that something different could be done. And in the past Mr. Samaras had indeed said that he hears things being cooked in Greek-Turkish, this is a concern, no objection. But that’s one thing and another to photograph Giorgos Gerapetritis as a discounter and to ask for his removal. I hope he doesn’t do anything else to damage his reputation.”

“No hidden agenda in Greek-Turkish – It is inelegant to say that Gerapetritis entered politics to betray his homeland”

As for Greek-Turkishhe emphasized that there is absolutely no hidden agenda, since no plan of concessions is emerging. “Greece during the five years of Kyriakos Mitsotakis has strengthened its armaments and with international alliances, while in both crises with Turkey in 2020 in Evros and Aegean, it took a very tough stance and came out on top. Since then, Turkey and Erdogan, who said they would never see Mitsotakis, have seen him. In the case of co-promising, to be valid, it must first pass through the Hellenic Parliament, so nothing can be done secretly. Nothing problematic is going to come to Parliament, because I simply cannot accept that I am more patriotic than Kyriakos Mitsotakis”.

At the same time, he characterized as “inelegant” the claims that “a University professor like Giorgos Gerapetritis entered politics to betray his homeland”. “Let me remind you that when they even called Alexis Tsipras a discounter for Prespes, I said that these are not talks about the country’s prime minister.”

Finally, commenting on the image of the Greek Prime Minister’s “well” with Christodoulidis, Erdogan and Rama in Budapest, he spoke of the great success of Greek foreign policy, since as he said “the acting president of Turkey agrees to sit down and exchange a couple of talks with acting president of the Republic of Cyprus, since Turkey does not recognize the existence of the Republic of Cyprus”.