Former SYRIZA Justice Minister Stavros Kontonis placed full responsibility on former Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras for the crisis plaguing Greece’s left-wing political scene, characterizing it as “exclusively the product of the former prime minister.”
Speaking to Thessaloniki radio station Status FM 107.7, Kontonis criticized Tsipras sharply: “Today he comes to make it even worse. If he left SYRIZA at 17% and is starting with 9%, he won’t last long, especially while Karystianos’ party remains pending.”
Kontonis on Tsipras: The “Messiah” comes to form a party through writing his book
He added: “Today, as the situation stands in the center-left, this impasse cannot be overcome, neither with the Messiah who comes today to form a party through writing his book, nor with artificial unions. That is, ‘let’s work it out’ as is commonly exchanged in political discourse. These things don’t work in my opinion. A new vehicle is needed in the center-left.”
Regarding the delayed exhumation of Denis Rousis, he said that any development does not delay the trial’s progress. As Stavros Kontonis characteristically noted: “The world hasn’t ended.”
“We see attempts at political exploitation of the Tempe story,” Kontonis emphasized, naming Kyriakos Velopoulos as well as his former party, SYRIZA, as “perpetrators.” He added: “It’s Mr. Velopoulos, who told us about wood alcohol, it’s parties that connected – my former party SYRIZA – the Tempe tragedy with the death of the Larissa Prosecutor’s son.”
Finally, regarding the discussion about the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, he said: “The police could have maintained order,” adding: “Memories of other eras came to mind, and anyway it was clarified yesterday that it’s only for maintaining order at the monument.”
