German tabloid newspaper “Bild” has lashed out against newly appointed member of the Greek government Pavlos Haikalis who was sworn in Saturday as the Deputy Minister of Social Security.

The 65-year-old sitcom comedian and actor is a member of the government’s junior coalition partner, the right-wing ANEL party, and caused a furor over his comment after assuming his new post, namely, about being handed ‘a hot potato’.

Bild attacks Greek PM Alexis Tsipras for choosing Haikalis, a rightist-populist who has previously likened German Chancellor Angela Merkel to … Hitler (ergo, the extreme populism) in a past interview to German paper Tagesspiegel.

Bild considers his appointment as a scandal, adding that this proves that the Greek MP has no real intentions of moving forward with any reforms.