Nikos Romanos launched a fierce attack against Alexis Tsipras, describing the former prime minister’s references to justice, ethics, and the economy as “tragicomic.” “I think it’s tragicomic to hear Tsipras talk about justice, ethics, and the economy. It’s outrageous, provocative, and tragicomic,” he stated on Open TV’s show “Deka Mazi.”
“We’re talking about a man who has been accused by his own former ministers of running shadow justice ministries out of Maximos Mansion, and of keeping parliament open to amend the Penal Code in favor of specific interests. This is a man who had two convicted ministers, a man who has been accused by the very same media moguls now hosting him of highly specific anti-institutional interference — of sending envoys from Maximos Mansion to negotiate funding deals and stake acquisitions,” noted the Prime Minister’s Director of Digital Communications pointedly.
Romanos challenges Tsipras: “How are all these events and the party’s operations being funded?”
Elsewhere in his remarks, Nikos Romanos stressed the need to find out how Tsipras’s party is being financed. “Who is funding it? How are all these events and the party’s day-to-day operations being funded? We were supposedly going to be presented with the financial data within the first week. Months have passed and we’re still hearing ‘we will,'” he said.
Responding to claims made by a SYRIZA representative on the panel — that everything in Tsipras’s new party is run on a voluntary basis — the Prime Minister’s Director of Digital Communications questioned whether the Greek Police’s (ELAS) party events constitute a form of sponsorship and, if so, from whom. He also drew a clear distinction between a party having volunteers and a party that has still failed to present an income-expenditure statement, as it is legally obligated to do and as any serious organization would.
Finally, Romanos commented on the economic record of the SYRIZA government, pointing out that while the rest of Europe was experiencing growth and quantitative easing, Greeks were being showered with tax hikes targeting the middle class. He also criticized the opposition as a whole for its inability to articulate realistic policy alternatives, resulting in a political approach driven by fake news.
