New Democracy leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis threw down the gauntlet at Greek PM Alexis Tsipras, calling on him to step down, during his speech at the party’s inaugural political Committee meeting, Wednesday. ’The country cannot bear to go through last summer’s drama, it cannot bear the incompetent and irresponsible Prmie Minister any longer’, he underlined. ‘Mr. Tsipras you are seeking an escape route, resign now’, Mistotakis stressed. He accused the Tsipras government of being an amalgamation of ‘leftism and levelling’. He claimed the most pressing duty was to get rid of the the group that came to power through lies and deceptions and burdened Greece with an extra €12bln. ‘The proud negotiations have cost us 5 times more and now a new package of measures has come on top of the bill’, Mitsotakis said. The leader of Greece’s major opposition party blasted the government for being a ‘sorry troupe’ of professional liars and populist megalomaniacs, adding that the only thing they were interested in was to remain in power at any cost