“I think it is confirmed what I said yesterday in informing political editors, that the government is in harmony with the self -evident demands of society, the overwhelming majority of citizens – who are neither far -right nor extreme, saying ‘children, at last, and at last, Paul Marinakis Speaking on the issue of protecting the monument to the unknown soldier in ANT1.

He added that “there will be an amendment that will be voted on next week, so that people know the exact timetable, which will say the following very simple: maintenance, guarding and promoting the monument, the Ministry of National Defense will have it, but it will be done by the Greek Defense, of the citizen. In short, in order not to get tired of the world, after the adoption of this amendment, the monument of the unknown soldier will only be for the honor of the dead. For nothing else. No protest event, no course, nothing. “

He also stressed that the opposition follows a strategy of creating “artificial dilemmas that sharpen the spirits and create polarization in society. I do not think that the self -explanatory respect and honor of our heroes can come into the weighing with the self -respect and mourning of the dead of a tragic accident, whether we are talking about Tempi, or we are talking about any other national tragedy, such as Madra, Mandra, Mandra. They don’t get into the weigh. Both are self -evident. And the government is not going to do the grace of all these rosers of this tension by the political system, to put them in the sausage. “

“We are not going to move on to any offensive” move with the names of the Tempi “

Mr Marinakis emphasized at this point that the government is not going to make any “aggressive” move, to erase the names “to come to the well -known – unknown provocateurs ‘solidarity’ who exploit the pain of relatives and create one more tension.” As he explained, “These names were written before, it was a move that comes out of the souls of the parents, the government does not argue with painful people, we are not ‘or we or they’, it is a unifying move, it is a move for our heroes, for those who have fallen for us, The dead in Tempi already exists. The monument of the unknown soldier turns into the self -explanatory exclusive monument of honor of our heroes and nothing else. “

The government spokesman even provided evidence of a series of monuments abroad between those of the triumphant arch of Paris, the monument of the unknown soldier in Rome, the cenotaph of Whittle in London and the Monument to the National Cemetery in Arlingon.

“We have to be one of the few civilized countries in the world that still much of the political system, an illegal act, a fascist act, because preventing the student and the teacher from going to his university, beyond illegal is a leading act of fascism, we justify it. Personally in my pre -election brochure, I imagine and overall we will have it, such headlines as the “Editors’ newspaper”, which says that the government is doing its job after so many years of inaction of the Greek state, I would put it in a prominent position. ” With these words, Mr. Marinakis commented on the front page of the newspaper referring to the evacuation of the occupation at the National Technical University of Athens under the heading “Handcuffs in Education”.

Mr. Marinakis, responding to the “housewives” for the address, stressed that they are not a party audience. “We are addressing all those, these tacit majorities who have been paying taxes and contributions over the years, manifesting only by voting, do not make crashes, have not learned to live with marches without requests, they have never prevented anyone from going to his school, their schools, They are not only neo -democrats, nor are they “passive”, they are citizens. We address the citizens. “

He also stressed that “the elections are for each voter a weigh. You put the positives on the scales, you put on the scales and the negatives. And if it considers, for the government, in this case, or for opposition parties, that the sausage is positive, it supports a choice. I think we have done too much, we have to do more. We have made mistakes and we have to correct a lot. ” On the OPEKEPE issue, he replied that “what happened and what didn’t happen to OPECEPE will be investigated by the Justice and at the political level by the Inquiry Committee, which we get some answers, we hear a lot of interesting things from the witnesses and we will continue to hear and will not be excluded. I’ve said it before, I say it today. “

He added that “this government is breaking decades and has the political courage to say that OPECEPE has to ‘run’ faster” but also that in addition to the self -evident need for cleansing and arrest of the offenders “the overwhelming majority of healthy farmers and farmers must be paid.” As he said, “payments will not be late. Most payments will start in the next few days of the week. I always want when I say something, to be accurate. So we’re talking about the coming weeks. These people are right who is shouting, they are right to worry. But, from now on, as the program is, and as OPECEPE has passed in AADE, it will also go through a filter, so that they really get the money they deserve. “

In closing, Mr Marinakis said that “the date for the Tempe trial, March 23 was announced. To say that justice is awarded to the courts. It is the first major national tragedy that, at last, we will see some people try – I do not know if they are innocent or guilty, not all these people guilty – and a felony. We have 36 defendants, 33 of whom for very serious offenses – crimes. They have the presumption of innocence. But think about two former ministers at the same time go to the Judicial Council to be judged. We didn’t conceal anything. The Judicial Council will evaluate both offenses and persons. So, everything will be seen by justice. And to say that we are in a country where many other great tragedies, because many of our fellow citizens have been lost in both Mati and Mandra and with “Samina”, years have passed, there was no word, not even the word ‘felony’, no one of us, or any other part of us, Let justice cool to judge this national tragedy, to make responsibility. And, as we had rightly said, they didn’t get out of the opposition to ‘play delay’. Silence, respect for these people who have mourned as much as no other and justice by justice, “the government spokesman concluded.