Al. Tsipras deleted P. Kouroublis

LAST UPDATE: 20.07

By Niki Zorba

Alexis Tsipras’s angry reaction was provoked by the report of Panagiotis Kouroumblis earlier in Parliament, with the MP more or less calling the New Democracy MPs “murderers”, referring to the dead of the pandemic, with the SYRIZA president deleting the MP the Parliamentary Group of the party, through a letter to the Speaker of Parliament Costas Tassoulas.

Alexis Tsipras had initially contacted the secretary of the SYRIZA Parliamentary Group – Progressive Alliance Olga Gerovasilis, conveying his ultimatum to P. Kouroublis: “Either it will be reconstructed or deleted”. The deputy did not reconstruct and so he was put out of K.O.

Earlier, as reported by the Athenian Macedonian News Agency, tension had been caused in Parliament, after the disgust of P. Kouroublis for the deaths due to coronavirus in the ICU. In his speech on the Budget, Mr. Kouroublis spoke about thousands of people who were killed, adding that it is a shame to say that the Prime Minister was not aware of the crime that took place in the ICU. Who will apologize for my lost friend, Mr. Kouroublis asked in a loud voice. After reactions from ND MPs, Mr. Kouroublis said: You killed people, thousands of people were killed.

In the intervention of the chairman A. Avdelas, to recall for the word murders, Mr. Kouroumblis refused to do so, while the ND MP G. Koumoutsakos who followed the SYRIZA MP to the podium, called the parliamentary representative of the official opposition. Skourleti to separate the position of his party.

We have witnessed a miserable populism and an extreme populist who has the audacity to accuse a prime minister and an entire faction as murderers in the Greek Parliament, said Mr. Koumoutsakos. He even stressed that he will remain silent on the podium as long as there is no condemnation.

Taking the floor, Mr. Skourletis said that the more answers are not given, around political responsibilities, the more we open the way for inaccurate and misunderstood phrases. It was the former Minister of Civil Protection who had said that SYRIZA burned 100 people in Mati. We have not done such a mourning, nor will we.

The parliamentary representative of the Movement for Change, Nadia Giannakopoulou, said that populism and insanity could not drown us. We will not oppose the dead, we will not become gravediggers over the ICU and the dead said Mrs. Giannakopoulou.

His characterizations characterize him, said the parliamentary representative of ND, Chr. Boukoros.

Also, the KKE MP Aleka Papariga, noted that we KKE, do not feel the need to use in our political confrontation swearing, insults and characterizations, even when at some point we get angry with something that refers to us.

Rebuke against Kouroubli for anti-parliamentary behavior

A rebuke for anti-parliamentary behavior was attributed, after a proposal by the Speaker of the Parliament K. Tassoula, to the SYRIZA MP P. Kouroumblis for the phrase he addressed to the government deputies, “you killed people”. The decision of the Plenary Session of the Parliament implies the reduction of one quarter of his monthly compensation.

“Having a colleague who, addressing the majority, says that you have killed thousands of people, and that ‘I insist and I do not recall’, ‘is the most vulgar, disgusting, and undermining of Parliament’s prestige and can be said here,'” he said. -a applauded- the Speaker of Parliament and continued: “In fact, it should not be deleted from the minutes, it should remain as a bad example of a behavior that we unanimously condemn.”

“We can not incite the social automation of hatred against political representatives. I address the body and stigmatize Mr. Kouroublis with a reproach of anti-parliamentary behavior for what he disgustingly said,” Mr. Tassoulas stressed.

In his intervention, the Undersecretary to the Prime Minister and Government Spokesman, Mr. Giannis Oikonomou, said that there is an issue for SYRIZA and its leader, Al. Tsipras, who must disapprove of his MP. He must be led to come to the hall to recall, otherwise he will be removed from his parliamentary group, said Mr. Economou. Otherwise, he added, he tolerates (Mr. Tsipras) and directs such unacceptable behaviors.

The parliamentary representative of SYRIZA, Nikos Filis said that the situation of the pandemic is difficult and that “with an exchange of insults” there is no solution. We are not covered by what Mr. Kouroublis said, in his rage and anger, as (as Mr. Kouroublis said) he has lost his friends, Mr. Filis underlined. In the previous period, ND MPs called me a traitor for my stance on the Prespa agreement, while the former Minister of Citizen Protection had said that SYRIZA burned 100 people in Mati. Democracy is not proceeding like this, with “one of you and one of me” stressed Mr. Filis.