Main opposition leader of New Democracy (ND) Kyriakos Mitsotakis accused the Greek coalition government led by PM Alexis Tsipras of political opportunism and amoralism during the debate in Greek parliament over the election bill. ‘You fear that you are heading towards a heavy defeat in the next elections and want to cook up the election law’, he accused Tsipras. The coalition government’s plans to garner support from minor opposition parties of PASOK and POTAMI, in an effort to reach 200 votes necessary so that the proportional representation law would be effected from the next general elections, fell through after both minor parties voted against the bill, while extreme right party, Golden Dawn (GD) withdrew from voting. Mistotakis said the current bill would be the only electoral law that would pass down in history as not taking effect at all, as he promised to annul it in the next parliament when he became Prime Minister. ’Simple proportional representation is contrary to common sense. Against the interest of the Greek people’, Mitsotakis noted during his speech. He went on to claim the the democratic reflexes of the parliament prevented the plans of Tsipras to render the country ungovernable. Leaders of both PASOK and POTAMI echoed the sentiments of Mitsotakis, as both Fofi Genimata and Stavros Theodorakis blasted Tsipras, respectively. ‘We are witnessing a cynical tactical movement by a government and a Prime Minister, who after failing, the only thing that interests them is that Greece fails with them’, underlined Mitsotakis. Mitsotakis said the failed plans of Tsipras to gain 200 votes and effect the law from the next general elections was a ‘huge parliamentary defeat’.