SYRIZA officials are describing a nervous, destabilized prime minister who resorts to toxicity and extreme rhetoric, commenting on yesterday’s presence in the foreign policy debate in Parliament. However, SYRIZA officials place particular emphasis on what Kyriakos Mitsotakis said about the country’s combat readiness in 2019. “It is unacceptable for a Greek prime minister to devalue the armed forces,” Koumoundourou officials characteristically stated, emphasizing that Alkiviadis Stefanis was the chief of staff at the time.
The phrase used by the prime minister, addressing the SYRIZA president, was: “let me not remind you, Mr. Famellos, what I inherited in 2019.”
“The Prime Minister does not hesitate to expose the country internationally,” SYRIZA officials say, pointing out that it is unacceptable for Kyriakos Mitsotakis to give a bad image of the country’s armed forces. The same people note that the prime minister appeared particularly irritated in the discussion, asking Zoe Konstantopoulou to “stop braying.” They also mentioned that Kyriakos Mitsotakis spoke about the “butcher” and “frappe,” laughing, when these very people – who belong to his party – are responsible for the OPEKEPE scandal.
Naturally, SYRIZA officials did not let the prime minister’s references to Alexis Tsipras go unnoticed. “You defend the politics of a Prime Minister who left you out in the cold and departed from your party – But that’s your issue, you’ll resolve it in the internal searches of the Left,” said Kyriakos Mitsotakis.
What SYRIZA says about Mitsotakis’ references to the Tsipras government
As SYRIZA officials report, they will obviously support the Tsipras government since many of the top-tier officials from Koumoundourou were in the then ministerial council. Other party figures say that the constant references by government officials and the prime minister himself to Alexis Tsipras show that obviously for New Democracy, the former prime minister’s return creates serious problems.
Socrates Famellos from the Parliament podium, referring to what the prime minister said, emphasized: “Defeats make him more toxic and he cannot be corrected by anything, we must remove them.” And he added:
Kyriakos Mitsotakis resorts to toxicity “to hide Greece’s defeats,” emphasized Socrates Famellos, responding to the prime minister’s second speech in the Parliament discussion on foreign policy. K. Mitsotakis avoided substantial answers to the opposition leaders’ questions and resorted, as usual, to references to the past or petty politics.
The SYRIZA-PS president, during his second speech, dismantled a series of unfounded claims by the prime minister, such as linking the zero Turkish air violations to the Athens Declaration between Greece and Turkey. Socrates Famellos presented relevant data showing that the drastic reduction and eventual elimination of violations preceded the Athens Declaration by nine months and are essentially connected to the major earthquakes in Turkey.
The SYRIZA president also responded to Mitsotakis’ “appeals” for consensus on foreign policy issues, reminding that very recently the Justice Minister had accused the entire opposition of serving Turkey’s interests due to their support for the Palestinian people’s struggle.
The SYRIZA leader did not avoid responding to comments like “Europe’s laughingstock” with which Kyriakos Mitsotakis “decorated” the SYRIZA governments as part of his past-dwelling. Socrates Famellos emphasized that under Mitsotakis’ days, Greece has become “the European prosecutor’s best client,” while 70% of citizens consider the government a “government of corruption.”
