On migration, the murder of Luigi Mangione, Nikos Androulakis’s speech and the measures announced by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis at the Thessaloniki International Fair, Adonis Georgiadis spoke on Parapolitika 90.1.
The Health Minister spoke on the show “Facing Microphones” with journalists Sotiris Xenakis and Vasilis Skouris and initially asked if he was concerned about the reactions following the murder of T. Kirk in the US, he said: “As an event it is shocking, even more shocking is the fact that both in America, Europe and Greece there were many who tried either to justify the murder or celebrate it in very extreme cases which is even more shocking for where our society is going and where it has reached. The reaction of both American and European society these days is very interesting because you see a world that has been mobilized to an unprecedented number and unprecedented magnitude.”
Georgiadis on Parapolitika 90.1: “What do you expect us to do, make policies to rise 10 points?”
Subsequently, when asked if he believes that the radical Left is behind these actions, he replied: “As for America, there is no doubt. We are living in an extremely transitional period for the Western world certainly and this drags the planet along. For example in London there was a demonstration by a very controversial organizer, Robinson, who brought 2 million people to the streets, this is not an insignificant event, this shows that societies are beginning to shake from within. The ‘age of naivety’ that the so-called progressive Left brought to Europe is over.”
On migration policy, Adonis Georgiadis commented: “The social democratic government of Denmark changed its immigration legislation in 2016 and has made Denmark a state that does not accept any illegal immigrants, they did this because they were shocked when Greece opened the borders in ’15 and then 1.5 million people passed to Northern Europe. So SYRIZA changed Europe to the right, not to the left.”
Regarding the continuous migration flows, the Health Minister mentioned: “Pleuris or the government never said that flows were zeroed, they said that if you add up how many entered in July, before the measures, and how many entered in August, in August it is 1/7. No one said they were zeroed nor can they be zeroed from North Africa unless Europe decides something much more drastic.”
Asked to comment on Nikos Androulakis’s speech at the Thessaloniki International Fair, Adonis Georgiadis said: “From his entire interview one scene has value when they asked him to tell us how much the measures he proposed cost. Remember that old video with the president of Edesaikos? Androulakis was a bit worse. If you understand how many billions the measures that Androulakis himself proposed cost and where he will find them, write to me! … Mr. Androulakis made a classic PASOK speech from the ’80s ‘Give everything to everyone’.”
Regarding the measures announced by the Prime Minister at the Thessaloniki International Fair, the Health Minister mentioned: “They have fine acceptance. We don’t make measures for polls, what do you expect us to do, make measures to rise 10 points? The measures that the New Democracy government votes for are indeed more difficult to explain. It’s much easier to say ‘I give a 13th pension’, it’s much more difficult to explain to each employee how much their income will increase from the tax reduction. Also everyone gets the pension regardless of how compliant they were with their tax obligations while the income increase from tax reduction is only for those who declared white income not those who receive black money. Are the measures more correct? Yes they are more correct… The direction that Mitsotakis gave is towards a more productive Greece. In essence he says ‘declare your income, you will pay less tax, you now have an incentive to work because the money will stay with you. This is what he does and it’s great’.”
On the electoral law he commented: “Mr. Mitsotakis has made it clear in all tones that there is no issue of changing the electoral law,” while asked to comment on the International Court’s decision that Netanyahu is a war criminal he said: “A court that is not recognized by either Israel or the US and I recognize it with difficulty, only plays politics, wrongly, very wrongly.”
Finally, to the journalists’ question: “Is it very wrong that the country recognizes it?”, Adonis Georgiadis said: “Yes very wrongly. These courts now play politics they don’t do justice.”
