Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras questioned the ND leader’s pledge to cut taxes saying that New Democracy didn’t implement this while it was in power. He wondered how civil servants will react to his announcement that he will not increase their salaries, while giving a speech at the second day of SYRIZA’s central committee conference in Athens on Sunday.  “I heard policemen say they will arrest Chouliarakis who’s looking for ways to resolve this. If they want to arrest someone, I’d tell them to go to Thessaloniki.”, he said.
Commenting on a Kyriakos Mitsotakis speech at the Thessaloniki International Fair, Tsipras described it as “an orgy of slander”, adding that “the leader of ND doesn’t like honest faces, he likes the faces of the triangle of corruption.” He accused Mitsotakis of promising things that cannot be done and which are “dangerous for the economy and society” and described him as “the lenders’ favourite man”.

“All the political forces of the old Greece have joined forces against us. Against SYRIZA and our government. They have every reason to do so because the oligarchs understand that our government has deep roots in society,” Tsipras said.
“Today the country is not the black sheep in Europe but takes initiatives. We are recovering without accepting a pillage of our society.” he added.
Speaking to SYRIZA delegates, he said the party wasn’t elected to assume positions of power, but to end with the old, “without lies reiterated by New Democracy.”
Commenting on the relations between the Bank of Greece and the government he said they must not endanger the banking system. “After our meeting yesterday, Mr. Stournaras said in the clearest way what ND cannot understand, that Justice is independent, and disconnected the KEELPNO investigation from the BoG and the economy,” he said.
Tsipras reiterated that the promises he made in last year’s Thessaloniki Fair are still valid, adding there will be major developments on the debt issue soon which will mark the end of international supervision for Greece.
He said the 246 million euros collected through the TV licensing tender ended all arguments voiced by the “triangle of corruption”, adding that the tender aimed at protecting the public interest.