The main opposition leader of SYRIZA Alexis Tsipras called on PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis to resign and call elections, paraphrasing a phrase of a famous Greek statesman of the past, Charilaos Trikoupis in Parliament on the budget, noting that “unfortunately you have gone bankrupt”.
“The excellent ones have been proven useless,” said Alexis Tsipras from the podium, adding that the government has become an accelerator of any crises it has managed and stressing that Mr. Mitsotakis tried to take political advantage of the pandemic and the pain of the citizens. “Your big problem is not your managerial inadequacy,” Tsipras told government officials, but that “you tried to speculate” politically at the time of the pain, adding that “the king is naked and morally depraved.”
Mr. Tsipras then focused on economic issues, saying that with its policy the government succeeds in making the poor inferior. “It is the same model that led us to the bankruptcy of the country 13 years ago,” said Mr. Tsipras.
Mr. Tsipras then referred again to the pandemic, saying that the country is in the worst position in terms of deaths. “Why are you indifferent to the strengthening of the NHS? Why do you resort to lies, why did you lie that the pandemic is over, why do you lie that we have a pandemic of the unvaccinated”, said Mr. Tsipras and noted that Mr. Mitsotakis lied that it is the same for someone to be intubated inside and outside the ICU.
“You said that you did not have any research to prove something different, while you had for months in your hands a research to prove it”, Mr. Tsipras continued, saying that another lie is that Mr. Mitsotakis did not receive the Tsiodras study. He said and wondered if Mr. Tsiodras had informed Mr. Mitsotakis about the results of the study.
“Didn’t he tell you that when the number of intubated people exceeds 400, mortality increases? Did not know these facts when you went out and talked”. Continuing, Mr. Tsipras told Mr. Mitsotakis that if he knew, he would have to resign for criminal and dangerous negligence in the midst of a pandemic. “But if you knew about the study and lied you would have to step down due to dangerous cynicism,” he said.
“You took advantage of the pandemic to build your profile, to create a regime in the media instead of investing in an information campaign,” said Mr. Tsipras, addressing Mr. Mitsotakis.
