In a full -length interview with ERTNEWS RADIO 105.8 the Andreas Loverdos He responded, among other things, after his accession to the New Democracy – to the argument, of Mr. Anna Diamantopoulou calling for the publication of his resignation letter from PASOK that he never explained to his voters, the 2021 intra -party elections, because he left the party.

“Diamantopoulou is right in this, because I did not publish the letter. Because I wanted not to become a vendetta. I wanted to leave velvety and I told him (ed. N. Androulakis) that this letter is not known by any of my associates and I advise you not to give it. I won’t give it, don’t give it it too.

But now as things are, I think about it. I am not sure I should do it, but I think about it, “the former PASOK minister and top executive, he said, according to information, in the southern part of Athens.

“I do not exclude it,” Mr Loverdos continued. I left for absolutely political reasons and which I record and the change of PASOK in relation to what had attracted me and had become his executive and left my life, professional – I paid for this because politics for some is effort and sacrifice, I am not saying that for everyone, but I do not do it. I also made a big gathering in Athens before we founded the Democrats, where I reiterated my basic political positions and values ​​and then, after the Democrats in the Battle of the European elections took 1.5%, but took 1.5% in a few months, I made my choice a year after it, I did. My attitude is politically intact. It doesn’t go out of nowhere. It has no shortages, ”he added.

“I decided to join the ND during the Tempe’s exploitation”

Asked why he chose to make this decision now, he said:

“Now, he has to go a little back and meet the events that organized them by taking advantage of the Tempe tragedy. Then I made the decision. I did not make the decision of joining, because I had no proposal. I was not talking to the prime minister then. I had to talk about 2022 in the summer, when he phoned me to congratulate me on my Novartis victory and before that we had exchanged messages, I had congratulated him on his 2019 election victory, every three years we were communicating.

When they were done with the exploitation of the Tempe tragedy and the slogan was dominated by Mitsotakis and see what happens, we will see what happened, for me it was the bell that hit, because it reminded me in 2012, 2015, those policies of zero. And I said that Mitsotakis must support. And I made interventions without having the slightest understanding. Interventions on the institutional issues related to the interrogation process for Tempi, the studies we expected from the Technical University then, from EPAAAM and so on. Then I did public interventions, but I had no contact. After the government’s reshuffle has been completed, somewhere we are now talking March 25th, somewhere there, after that I contacted the Prime Minister, I told him that you have to rest down. We said to meet. We met early June, late May, somewhere there. And there we put our hands. “

He also noted that he was scheduled to announce it September, as “summer is a time that is not politically the best. This was my own thought and his own. “

Responding to the criticisms that say what “late”, Mr. Loverdos emphasized, “I was late, but I couldn’t. He had to mature within me. They’re not just things. When they say I was late, they mean I was in consultation. I proved to you that I was not in consultation. So, I don’t care what they say. And you know why I don’t care what they say? I always respect what the other says, because they are hybrids, since they find, what to answer? You find when you are in a riot. “

“I would like to point out that their first leak when my accession to New Democracy was announced was to walk me with a football joke that I laughed too.

But then they lost their temper, they know why they attack me from top to bottom with abusive words. “

It is true that the government at the moment and the New Democracy is not the New Democracy and the 41%government.

About the difficult time that the ruling party seems to be going through when Mr Loverdos enters it, he said: “New Democracy is going through difficulties, but I believe it will win the battle because it does so many things that, perhaps the six years of continuous governance.

Let me tell you something that I consider serious and important. When we met there, at the end of May, early June, the prime minister told me that the main issues of his government are accuracy and housing. I found it very serious and the way he said it and the elements he gave, he knows the issues. Also in 2024-25 they made two very serious banks for banks, limiting their profits and made himself and Mr. Chatzidakis and Mr. Papastavrou and the prime minister himself, intervened in the summer for electricity prices.

That is, I think, adding what is happening to health, adding dozens of policies to which they have a positive role positive, shows a prime minister and a government who fight. And in any case there is no alternative to them. (…)

In the past in our political system, after six years, we all knew who would leave, the one who rules and who will come, the one who is mainly opposed. Now we cannot say this because there is no candidate for Prime Minister if Mr. Mitsotakis leaves the other opposition parties. And also the opposition parties do not understand each other. “

“I do not exclude the self -reliance at all”

As for the poll that until now they do not give self -sufficiency to the New Democracy, Mr Loverdos commented “there are the second elections. And in the second elections I do not exclude self -reliance at all. Indeed, believing in stability and seeing what is happening in the opposition, I appreciate that the Greek people will also ask for this. But this is now about the discussion we will do after a while. (…)

In the opposition there are parties whose leaders do not speak to each other. Everyone says, strengthen me. To understand it, that’s right. But they do not say, because I will work even if my strengths do not bring me to self -sufficiency, with Tade and call for elections.

They are calling for elections to leave this government without saying who will come, who will be prime minister. They say we will find a prime minister. And what forces will support this prime minister? And what do they want to do? “

As to whether in the event of non -self -reliance, the possibility of cooperation between the first two parties if it was the New Democracy and PASOK, Mr Loverdos said “obviously it should. It is a general rule of democracy. There is no autonomous, you work together. This is a general rule. It makes no sense that I answer. Which reasonable man would say no, shouldn’t? However, when you go down to everyday life, it changes here in Greece. Everyone wants to avoid this by opposition.

Therefore, ask for elections when you have been in polls for your suitability for years as prime minister and you are below 10, now you are at 7 and ask for elections, it is like talking to Kutourou, as if you are saying to the Greek people, and reinforce a tendency to go away. Why will you see what you will do and you don’t say it? You don’t say it because, first you don’t think you can be a leader and take the country into your own hands and secondly because you have no political forces to work together. As if, to get one vote above. “