N. Androulakis: ‘The government with its manipulations has no sign of seriousness’

Asked about the issue of ecology, he stressed the value issue of seriousness and responsibility, wondering: “It is possible for the prime minister to say publicly that he will hold elections at the end of four years and the whole cabinet to leak to you journalists that” we have elections in the autumn “? N. Androulakis wondered, commenting on the issue of ecology.

In an interview with SKAI 100.3, the president of PASOK / KINAL added: “Do you see it as a sign of seriousness and responsibility? We have a government that does not have the strength and courage to say: ” Yes, I’m going through a difficult winter, probably because I have made the wrong financial choices in recent years, I am not lifting the weight this winter and because I do not want to have more wear and tear I’m leading the country to elections ”. words from “I am going at the end of the four years” to state now: “I want them to be done at the end of the four years”, these are not serious things “, added the President of PASOK – Movement for Change. “The way the government handles things has no sign of seriousness and elections must be held to leave,” he said.

Referring to post-election collaborations, Mr. Androulakis said that “I have said from the beginning that it is a constitutional shock to consider that the first election, as the Prime Minister and his ministers say, is a stepping stone to achieve autonomy in the second elections. There is an electoral law, passed by the Greek We disagreed with the way this simple analogy was made, because a serious simple analogy had to give the same amount of time – as in the German system – to programmatic alliances and party debates. An electoral tactic. The Constitution says concrete things. We will respect it and we will fight for the country to have stability from the first Sunday. How will this be done? This will be chosen by the Greek people, Mr. Tsima. elections, based on opinion polls to theorize on the so-called argument of our opponents “who will you go with”. When you ask them who they will go with, they say what the Greek people and the popular verdict say. When I say exactly the same thing, they say that Androulakis is hiding. We say clearly, we will go with our ideas, with our positions. We want to have a strong mandate. “The stronger we are, the more chances the Greek people have for stability and a progressive government with Social Democracy at its core and with specific priorities.”

Against the background of the NATO Summit, Mr. Androulakis noted that “the Turks in recent months have escalated the issue of demilitarization and link it to the sovereignty of the Greek islands. We must also have a plan of strong deterrence as the EU. “The issue of arms embargo is high on the agenda. No one can equip a country that violates human rights and wants to violate the sovereign rights of EU member states,” said the PASOK-Change Movement leader.

Mr. Androulakis looked at the early celebrations of Kyriakos Mitsotakis after his last meeting with the Turkish President and regarding the attitude of the leader of the official opposition in geopolitical issues, he noted that “the one who made Erdogan have the power to blackmail the whole of Europe “It is Mr. Tsipras, when in 2015 he said that we have no borders and he easily allowed to hand over the keys of the blackmail of Europe with the refugee-immigrant to Mr. Erdogan”.

At the same time, in the aftermath of statements of the former Secretary of SYRIZA Dim. Tzanakopoulos on the unnecessary entry of Finland and Sweden into NATO, Nikos Androulakis pointed out that “the world can not live this geopolitical adventure today, to have a strong European ally, Mr. Macron, and some to celebrate in Greece for his defeat, in favor of Melanson, who if we ever imagined he would be president of France I do not know what his position would be on the national issues of our country. Or I imagine what it would be. In this crisis, two countries, whose people did not want to join NATO, now because of the fear of Russia’s illegal and barbaric invasion of Ukraine, the people have changed their minds and are pushing the governments to join NATO. Is this enlargement unnecessary? Do we finally respect the people? Do we want European solidarity? Do we think Putin is as dangerous as Erdogan? Do we want a stable Europe? Or do we say and do? with what we condemn what other countries are doing? ”

Regarding the energy crisis, the president of PASOK – Movement for Change stressed: “I do not know why the government went into the adventure to send a special proposal that was not in the toolbox of the European Commission for approval. We do not understand how it will work, what The big producers will pay, what will be the benefit in the tariff, what will the state pay. The government proposal is vague. It could be months now that we do not live with this tariff increase. Now why is the government doing it? ND taxed super profits with a joint ministerial decision to be proposed by RAE, while RAE declares incompetent and b we are talking today about a conflict between RAE and the government. “These vague choices, made to cover specific financial interests, do not help the public interest.”