Budget: 158 ‘yes’ – Explosive atmosphere for pandemic and elections

With 158 “for” and 142 “against” votes, the budget for 2022 passed, without surprises, since such were not expected.

The budget vote is up character of a vote of confidence in the Government and hence there was no case to favor scenarios circulating in the last 24 hours that SYRIZA would submit through Alexis Tsipras a motion of censure to the Government.

However, he demanded the resignation of the Prime Minister and the announcement of elections, officially this time, in a speech with high political tones and objections.

Kyriakos Mitsotakis, not only raised his glove but went on the counterattack in similarly high tones, commenting on the fact that the president of SYRIZA “went through the election rubric” that “If there is a politician in the country who would have a substantial benefit from the early elections It would be you, Mr. Tsipras, but I, too. abyss of responsibility towards the needs of the country “.

He even attributed the move of the president of SYRIZA to officially request elections for fear that in a short time it will be a third party and not a second “the reason is next to you”, said Mr. Mitsotakis, referring to KINAL and the reshuffles in the Center-Left.

In any case, once again, the prime minister hermetically closed the scenarios for early elections, saying that elections will be held at the end of the four years, no matter how many times the opposition requests them.

The Tsiodra-Lytra study on the ICU and the Pandemic was at the center of the ND-SYRIZA controversy, as Alexis Tsipras proposed it as the last straw, talking about a “guilty government”, a “dangerous prime minister”, “criminal perpetrators”. “and” political cynicism “.

Regarding this study, K. Mitsotakis commented that he did not expect any study to strengthen the NSS and that he was the first, since February 2020, to talk about a problem in regional hospitals, a problem that is found in other countries.

As for who and if he finally received this study, the prime minister said that it never reached Maximou.

Regarding his previous position that there is no evidence of an increase in mortality among non-ICU intubators for which he was accused by the opposition, especially after the publication of this study, Mr. Mitsotakis admitted that his wording was not the best possible and obviously there is a qualitative difference between the two cases.

Mr. Mitsotakis also appeared extremely sharp in the call that Mr. Tsipras addressed to the Citizens for uprising and resistance against the Government, in order to leave.

He identified the speech of the president of SYRIZA with the extreme views of “the various custodians of the Constitution”, describing marginal and extreme views.

The atmosphere in Parliament that heralded a harsh brazier between the Prime Minister and the leader of the official opposition had become explosive from the end of Alexis Tsipras’s speech when he was succeeded on the podium by the Minister of State G. Gerapetritis and addressed to the President. SYRIZA “Time to go, Mr. President” broke out against it, which led to the departure of the MPs of the official opposition in the midst of protests and verbal attacks on Mr. Gerapetritis.