Main opposition New Democracy (ND) president Vangelis Meimarakis employed past descriptions used by ruling leftist SYRIZA party — when it was in the opposition — to ask whether “coup instigators” and “criminals of Europe” gave us the money to remain alive?
Speaking during Parliament debate on the second package of measure linked to the third bailout, Meimarakis also touched on a looming clash between PM Alexis Tsipras and Parliament President Zoe Konstantopoulou.
He reminded that the government signed a “grand memorandum” and is now sending the bill to the Greek citizens.
“Is it true that you received the troika members at the ministries today?” he asked, while also charging that the government brought a worse agreement to Parliament than the one it framed as a referendum question.
“The main opposition votes ‘yes’ not because it backs the government and the measures, but for the country to remain in the euro,” he said.