Main opposition SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras on Wednesday lashed out on the government, accusing it of selling-off the public wealth at a low price.

“You, as a government, are moving in the shadows. You are resorting to slander, you wouldn’t even dare hold a referendum, not even a debate in the Parliament,” Tsipras noted while addressing the Parliament’s summer session on the “small PPC” bill. He also said his party would table a proposal for referendum.

“You got a state but you will give back a colony; a colony of great private interests as well as of vested interests that prey on the country’s state companies. A historic responsibility is assumed….You shall not take this decision in hiding, but being out in the open. Each deputy will take one’s own responsibility,” Tsipras pointed out.

He added that “your sole criteria are to get round to selling off whatever has been left off from the public wealth and create a negative result for the next government.” However, Tsipras underlines that SYRIZA won’t play the role of the “useful idiots” in the sell-out of the country.