With broad majority of 181 votes The Greece-US Mutual Defense Cooperation Agreement (MDCA) was ratified by the Plenary Session of the Parliament on Thursday night. 119 deputies were elected to the MDCA with a negative vote.
The 157 deputies of New Democracy, along with the 22 deputies of PASOK-Movement for Change and the two independent deputies, Konstantinos Bogdanos and Konstantina Adamou, voted in favor of the new upgraded Greek-American Agreement.
Statements during the sitting of the Parliament for MDCA
“Your hypocrisy, Mr. Tsipras, is unbearable. “If you had never ruled, I would consider that these views are appropriate for a party that has never been in the throes of making difficult decisions,” the prime minister said earlier. Kyriakos Mitsotakis, in the context of the debate on the ratification of the defense agreement. “But you ruled and quickly forgot about the march on the US embassy and embraced the US,” he said, referring to statements made by former US ambassador to Athens Jeffrey Payat about his meeting with him. Al. Tsipras.
“Waving my finger for a double stance on foreign policy issues goes a long way, that you participated in the rallies for the name of Northern Macedonia and when you became prime minister, you forgot everything and you honor and respect it and you do everything. “Only you are afraid to bring the memoranda of cooperation for ratification, lest your half of you vote against them”, commented the Alexis Tsipras answering in the deuterology of Kyriakos Mitsotakis.
The president of SYRIZA-PS said about the attitude expressed by his party that “it is not a matter of conjuncture that we have this attitude, we do not need to play it neither pro-American nor anti-American”.
“Andreas took over a country barefoot on thorns and brought it to the center of developmentsStressed the parliamentary representative of PASOK-KINAL Costas Skandalidis speaking to the national delegation as part of the debate on the ratification of the Greek-American defense agreement. Commenting on the reports of the Prime Minister and his Leader of the Official Opposition for the Founder of PASOK, Costas Skandalidis characteristically stated that “it does not make any impression on me that the person who is wandering in the room today is Andreas Papandreou. I would sincerely like you to leave Andreas alone. He took over a country barefoot on the thorns and brought it in every way to the center of European and world developments “.
THE Secretary General of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Greece Dimitris Koutsoumbas, in his speech in Parliament on the Greece-US Agreement, said that today is the day of voting for an Agreement “in the name of defense only but in fact very, very aggressive”, will be mentioned as a negative milestone for everything that will follow next years”. He noted that with the exception of the KKE, all other parties either conceal or obscure the true content of the Agreement.
It turned out completely beneficial to the agreement for the national interest, and there is a criterion that confirms this conclusion, stressed in Parliament for the Greek-American agreement the Nikos Dendias.
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