Despina Vlepakis

“I understand that everyone tries to save themselves politically by creating dragons, but there are fairy tales without dragons”, was Nikos Androulakis’ sharp response to Alexis Tsipras from the stage of the conference “Postcolonization 1974-2024: 50 years of Foreign Policy”.

A little earlier, the former prime minister, from the same stage, commenting on the meeting of Kyriakos Mitsotakis with Nikos Androulakis, said that “the country moved forward and with conflicts where necessary, consensus is not the issue today, the opposition is” while he also referred to possibility of post-election cooperation between ND and PASOK, which Nikos Androulakis rules out saying “It is not enough to conjure up something which will end up as a self-fulfilling prophecy if you don’t move in another direction.”

THE Nikos Androulakis responding to the scenarios of co-government with the ND and to what Alexis Tsipras mentioned, he replied that this is something that no Greek can believe.

“I understand that some people want to make up narratives. PASOK and I put up a great fight to become the second strong pole of the political system that aspires to become a government, and some people say that we are fighting to co-govern with the ND. No Greek can believe this.”

The leader of the Opposition Officer fired heavily at Alexis Tsipras from whom, as he explained, he does not receive “opposition lessons”.

“Mr. Tsipras must hold a conference to decide that for the first time in the post-colonial period, a party was defeated twice and indeed the second time by a 20% margin. To decide why their politics was defeated in such a way. For the same leading person to come and give me opposition lessons. I consider it absurd,” noted Nikos Androulakis.