Karanikas blasts opposition as “useless and incompetent”

Former advisor to Alexis Tsipras, Nikos Karanikas, has denounced the opposition as “useless” and “incompetent,” criticizing them for focusing on whether Deputy Minister Lazaridis has a degree rather than addressing substantive policy issues. He commented on the barrage of opposition party announcements regarding the Deputy Minister of Agricultural Development, stating they have “dedicated their opposition to moralizing” and “focus on secondary matters instead of critiquing the government’s work.”

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Nikos Karanikas’s social media post

“Useless and incompetent opposition. In their nightmare. (In 2 minutes)
The opposition of SYRIZA Near Tsipra and PASOK is so unreliable and incompetent that they have dedicated their opposition to moralizing, to corruption which is a matter for prosecutors, and now lately they have focused on whether Lazaridis has a degree.

They deal with secondary matters because they cannot deal with primary issues by critiquing the government’s work.

They are not capable of doing politics and they mess around with pompousness and pretensions.

In their nightmare.

We don’t know what they say about the bills and changes that have been made and will be made.

Maybe they made some two-sentence announcement to tell us they completely disagree with the bill which they obviously didn’t read since the government is the worst as they say and they consider it invalid.
Neither deconstruction since it requires analysis of points and they are incapable of such a thing.

Direct cancellation. Easy and impressive. No confrontation, no different narrative.

Otherwise they cheer that the far-right changed instead of a pro-EU government in Hungary after about two decades from a right-wing pro-EU government.

Good thing but… Mercy.

Really useless and deserve to be found outside parliament.

Just things that must become reality.

I present to you what the incompetent and useless opposition with standard-bearers of decline SYRIZA Near Tsipra PASOK did not deal with seriously, publicly, reliably alternatively and massively, i.e. online.

Official government plan: 2025 review and 2026 planning.

Main bills

The basics that the government announced for the period 2025–2026:

1. “State more friendly to citizens & businesses”
2. “New High School & National Diploma”
3. “New Local Government Code”
4. “Urban planning restructuring & integration into Land Registry”
5. “Simplification of business licensing”
6. “Inheritance Law reform”
7. “Strengthening Collective Labor Agreements”
8. “New framework for KEPA (disability certifications)”
9. “Addressing water shortage”
10. “Legal migration”

Indicative reforms (titles)

Economy / labor
• Tax reductions
• Minimum wage increase
• Extension of digital work card (private + public sector)

State / digital

• Simplification of 400 procedures (MITOS)
• Digital file in Justice
• Electronic budget monitoring

Health

• Hospital & health center upgrades
• National electronic health file

Infrastructure

• Completion of Land Registry
• Major projects (E65, Thessaloniki Metro etc.)
• Railway upgrades

Social policy

• Affordable housing program
• School renovations (“Marietta Giannakou”)
• Accessible beaches
• New Consumer Protection Authority
• Digital price comparison platforms
• Measures for migration & borders

The government’s narrative is summarized in:

▪️• Less bureaucracy
▪️• Changes in education & justice
▪️• Digitization everywhere
▪️• Tax relief + wages
▪️• Major projects & infrastructure
▪️• Migration policy & water (shortage)

Have been voted or are in progress

Economy – labor
• Minimum wage increase
• Tax reductions (income, insurance contributions)
• Extension of digital work card (in sectors)
State – digital
• gov.gr expansion (more services online)
• Procedure simplification (MITOS)
• Digital transactions with Public sector
Health
• Digital appointments & services
• Renovations/strengthening of health structures
Infrastructure
• Land Registry progressing
• Road & railway projects (in progress)

In process, under implementation

• Digital health file (not fully completed)
• Digital justice (still delays)
• Housing programs (running but limited)
• School upgrades
New bills (not completed yet)
• New High School & National Diploma
• New Local Government Code
• Inheritance Law reform
• New framework for disability certifications (KEPA)
• Water shortage regulations
• New legal migration framework

Personally without secretarial support and only with the help of the internet and TV I managed to present the government agenda that the opposition avoids because it is useless and incompetent besides being unreliable.

And it’s not only their parliamentary group that doesn’t have the ability to deal seriously with government policy, it’s also the members and followers equally stupid and incompetent because they’ve thrown themselves into moralizing and online abuse characterizing the government toxically and not politically with arguments so that we voters, the people, can learn what they disagree with, what they agree with and what the government is doing wrong.
What do they propose!?

Useless opposition and unreliable.

This is the main reason why we unaffiliated citizens with political criteria and interest in our lives and our country should create conditions for a capable and reliable opposition that will separate itself from the decline of Tsipra SYRIZA Near PASOK. The future is in our hands.”