SYRIZA leader and Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras started his speech lashing out at New Democracy Kyriakos Mitsotakis.

The prime minister accused Mitsotakis of talking about reforms, but “without explaining which these reforms are. You don’t have the courage to suggest any reforms. You say no to what you have voted for”.

“You say that you can achieve a 2% surplus and economic growth at 4%, but your governments have managed to achieve the opposite” he said adding: “25% recession since 2009, unemployment from 9.6% to 27.5%. Where were you? Who had been ruling the country?”

At the end of his speech, he announced that a special fund would be established, a “donor” as he called it, in order to deposit 700 million euros saved from primary surplus exceeding. With this money, he promised to withdraw the amendment submitted yesterday for vote for freezing special categories wage scales.

He also addressed SYRIZA MPs indicating that the government should not be overthrown.