Al. Tsipras: What Mr. Mitsotakis suddenly discovered is not his national responsibility but his political impasse

Speaking today at the port of Evdilos in Ikaria, Alexis Tsipras spoke of the Prime Minister’s “political impasse” which forced him to put an end to the process of early elections “that he himself started”.

The president of SYRIZA-PS rejected the invocation of “national responsibility” by the prime minister, arguing that “what Mr. Mitsotakis suddenly discovered is not national responsibility but his political impasse”.

In detail, Al. Tsipras began his speech by greeting the “red island” of Ikaria and by referring to the struggles and fighters for democracy and freedom that the island hosted. “Times may have changed but certain habits do not. No, there are no more exiles and prisons. Our democracy is deeply rooted,” he said. “But it is a democracy that suffers from misinformation and manipulation of the mass media, from attempts to manipulate justice, from uncontrolled corruption and entanglement” he stressed, leaving sharp points against the current government for “undermining the institutions”, “violation of the Constitution”, “propaganda”.

“Why did they come to power again to repeat the same story by other means: To pay off their bills to the elites, to feed the party army, to loot the public coffers. And to leave behind wreckage again, when their people send out,” he declared. But as he pointed out, “society is suffering, and no matter how much they produce propaganda, they cannot hide the reality that contradicts them”.

Refuting once again the argument that “everything is to blame for the international situation”, Al. Tsipras repeated that “Mr. Mitsotakis and his policy were multipliers of the crisis, the worst government at the worst time”. In this context, he referred to the country’s “back-to-back negative records” such as inflation and accuracy, while blaming government policies for “reduced incomes”, “profiteering by cartels” but also from the state itself “which refuses to reduce the VAT and VAT”. They also pointed out the renationalization of the French electricity company by the “liberal Macron”, while “in Greece Mr. Mitsotakis privatized PPC” and “placed golden bush with a salary of 30,000 a month whose concern is to maximize private profits shareholders”. He spoke of the looting of households and businesses, accusing the Prime Minister that instead of dealing with how to stop it, “all he cared about was organizing the plan to deceive the citizens”.

“To go to early polls and be able to deceive the citizens and prevent the worst”, he commented and emphasized that Mr. Mitsotakis himself opened the process of early elections in the previous days, with statements, “with rebuttals and solemn announcements of the party’s candidates of”, with leaks to pro-government media, “calling his ministers and MPs to leave government work and throw themselves into the battle of the cross”.

However, as he said, “the real numbers came to him from the real public opinion polls […] He probably saw that it is now too late to mislead the Greek society. And he suddenly started pretending to be the one in charge”. Commenting on the Prime Minister’s statements about simple analogy, he said that “he himself is the biggest factor in political instability”.

Al. Tsipras continued the attempt to deconstruct the positions of the prime minister, saying that while he rejects cooperation governments, and his government is a cooperation government, “hugs with interests” but also that “the truth is that it has no referendum”.

“The developments are no longer in his hands. And he hides his corruption behind pretenses. And he tries to pretend that he is allegedly nationally responsible. So, the practices of three years of government have shown that Mr. Mitsotakis does not have this virtue” , he said characteristically, referring to the pandemic, the accuracy crisis and foreign policy.

“If there is an overwhelming need, a vital, life-and-death need, it is to finish before it is too late with Mr. Mitsotakis, his regime and his friends and sponsors,” stressed the president of SYRIZA-PS.

Besides, referring to the developments with Novartis, he underlined that “a few days ago, an unprecedented attempt was confirmed with the stamp of justice, not only to cover up the scandal, but also to bring to the dock as conspirators, those who dared to contribute to the revelation of, to politically and morally exterminate prosecutors, witnesses, journalists as accomplices and plotters”. In fact, he launched a direct attack on Kyriakos Mitsotakis, accusing him of “belittling his role as prime minister, disdaining the separation of powers, and humiliating the judiciary, declaring the journalists he had involved in the adventure of prosecution guilty in the worst possible terms.” .

However, as he noted “now that finally even with the stamp of justice there is no evidence, what remains is the Novartis scandal, which calls for answers” and he pledged that “he will get to the end, because in this place justice must return.”

He also pledged that “the party of ten business groups, three funds and dozens of party officials who suck the resources of a society will end”.

“In three years, the ND government managed to leave behind insecurity and despair. In three years, their ideologies, their administrative incompetence and above all their desire to serve the interests of the oligarchy, leave behind a deeply wounded society “, he stated and wanted to send a message from Ikaria that SYRIZA-PS has a plan “to stand up despite the difficulties”.

In particular, he referred first and foremost to the plan to support the world of work, “by repealing all the laws that gave rise to job insecurity during the three years of Mitsotakis” and then to the “plan to support small and medium-sized entrepreneurs”, to stop the to be precise, to make PPC public again, “to put a barrier to profiteering”, to “dismantle the cartels” and support low incomes.

In addition, he referred to the SYRIZA-PS plan to strengthen the social state and public education, while he again promised the “restoration of the 1 billion that the Mitsotakis government annually stole from pensioners by abolishing the 13th pension”, the return of retrospectives “to those who were deceived by Mr. Mitsotakis”, but also the support of the new generation and “dealing with the housing crisis in the country”.

Finally, he spoke about the official opposition’s plan for foreign policy, with which he will “return the country to the doctrine of the pillar of peace, security and stability” and put an end to Turkish provocation “not with lionization that ends in humiliation, but with substantial protection of national interests”.

“The dilemma of the ballot box, whenever Mr. Mitsotakis decides to set it up, will ultimately be very simple. It will be: Political change and the Nightmare at an end or a nightmare without an end,” stressed Al once again. Tsipras expressing “certainty” about the citizens’ response. “The king of the polls is naked in front of the fear of the real electoral contest,” he estimated. He reiterated the argument of defrauding pensioners and the middle class, young people and small and medium-sized entrepreneurs, while also referring to the “7.5 billion distributed by direct transfers to friends and blue-collar children”, which he characterized as “the biggest loot of the 21st century century”.

“Those who play games with the institutions and democracy will be judged at the ballot box,” underlined Al. Tsipras.

Finally, addressing the local issues that concern the residents of Ikaria, he recalled the work of the previous government “in conditions of fiscal suffocation”, mainly indicating the strengthening of public health with permanent recruitment and not only that, but also the measure of the transport equivalent. He even asked for the “commitment” of the Ikarians, “in the next elections, this democratic place, this democratic people, the people and the place of struggle and resistance, to send a left-wing deputy to the Greek parliament again”.

“Let’s get rid of the scum of the Mitsotakis regime. Three years is enough, it won’t be seven,” the official opposition leader concluded.

SOURCE: AMPE