A. Xanthos returned the ‘glove’ to Polaki: You disagree with the line for a pandemic, therefore with the President

Her Nikis Zorba

The glove thrown yesterday by Pavlos Polakis, harshly criticizing the SYRIZA line for the pandemic and the vaccines, was lifted by Andreas Xanthos and returned to the MP from Chania, clearly stating what P. Skourletis implied in his speech yesterday: issues (fiscal policy – see pillow) and pandemic (see vaccines) whoever opposes the “line” of the party, in essence, challenges Alexis Tsipras himself and let him appear more royal than the king (of the president, in this case).

“It was said here that our line towards the pandemic and management was problematic, it was wrong, it was not sharp, it was lukewarm. Our attitude towards this crisis management and the tragic responsibilities of the Mitsotakis government and the projection of an alternative plan for it the unprecedented health crisis, it was no one’s personal affair.

Neither the head of the health department nor the coordinator of the department, nor a closed group of executives. It was our collective affair and it was discussed repeatedly in meetings of EPEKE, the Health department, we consulted with scientists, we set up an observatory, the president made a think tank with advisers from Greece and abroad, they were discussed in the party’s political bodies, in the political council , at the political center, was discussed at the program conference and there was absolute political agreement on the peaks, the critique and the counter-proposal

Anyone who insists on raising the issue of the pandemic today, I say it directly, is openly opposing the collective decisions of the party and the president.

“Just because he realized the weight of this case, and how far the pandemic was in global and domestic developments, he took it upon himself to go to all the hospitals, talk to experts and we all co-formed this position,” he said in his speech. Head of Health of SYRIZA.

He even noted that, given this, how revealing and hypocritical it is, is the confrontation between presidents and vice presidents, that this is a shadow war and in fact there is no dilemma who is with the president and who is not with the president.

He rejected the logic of “ripe fruit” and the communicating vessels, stating that in his view, the government would not fall under the weight of popular indignation and anger.

“Fortunately, SYRIZA is not an ordinary party with a system of change of power. It is a party that has opened up against well-established interests in the country, so it will not automatically accept the deterioration of Mitsotakis as was done in previous periods of bipartisanship. We need a kinematic and a political counter-attack with a plan that is understandable, radical, sharp, emergency that will face the extreme situation in our country like the one presented by the comrade president “.

Hence he referred to the need for a new plan to build “new credibility”, as “the crisis of public confidence in the parties and in the political system in general concerns us” although not to the same extent as that of the bankrupt political system.

In the end, however, he called on the party to give battle to “the overthrow of the Mitsotakis government,” with ideological confrontation and conflict “and not, in terms of simple political opposition or terms of factorism and” institutionalism “.