Alexis Tsipras submitted a motion of censure against the government to the Parliament, trying to take political advantage of the problems the state mechanism demonstrated during the snowstorm.

At the beginning of the plenary session of the Parliament for the discussion of the new development law, the leader of the official opposition asked for the floor and spoke about the accumulated anger and despair of the society and addressed the government: “Leave because you cost lives, money and fear”.

Alexis Tsipras spoke of “delusions” of the citizens regarding the abilities of the government and the prime minister, claiming that the recent bad weather “buried the last delusions that may have existed that the prime minister and the government are willing to learn from mistakes and the dramatic results of their fixations. On behalf of the SYRIZA parliamentary group, I submit a motion of censure against the worst government that the country has known since the restoration of democracy. Because it’s time for you to leave. Let this place breathe. There are no dead-ends in democracy. We will do everything we can to find a way out”, he said.

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Responding on behalf of the government, the present Minister of Development and Investment Adonis Georgiadis said, “the main opposition’s motion is accepted. The discussion starts tomorrow afternoon. The answer will be given by the Parliament in the next 3 days. You will receive all the answers for all the exaggerations and lies that you said”.

It should be noted that the three-day debate on the motion of censure against the government submitted by SYRIZA begins on Friday afternoon and ends on Sunday night with the clash of political leaders and the roll call vote.

A motion of censure is required to have 151 affirmative votes to be accepted.