Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis called the statement by KKE general secretary Dimitris Koutoumbas on sugar daddies to whom female students who will not be able to pay tuition fees at non-state universities unacceptable and sexist.

“Allow me to comment on Mr Koutsouba’s intervention.

I thought you asked for an intervention to apologize for your unacceptable sexist reference that proves that the KKE remains the most anachronistic force.

And don’t be in a hurry to talk about our anti-communism,” the prime minister said from the floor of the parliament and went on to say that “perhaps you are imagining Greece as a communist country when you talk about women being prostituted. You will not remain immune as a supposedly modernizing force that is above criticism when you address women in this unacceptable way in a sexist manner and you do not have the courage to apologize.”

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis is currently on the podium.

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