G. Economou: The political controversy must have limits

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The Deputy Minister, despite the Prime Minister and government representative, Giannis Oikonomou, spoke about the removal of Panagiotis Kouroumblis from the SYRIZA parliamentary group, but also about the Tsiodra-Lytra investigation, in a TV interview with ANT1.

“Political controversy has to have limits. Many times the tone goes up. We always seek argument-based controversy. We have not been personally attacked. Whenever we say something, it is documented by reality. We present the results of our policy and we are ready to “We oppose any opposite view”, pointed out Mr. Economou.

He stressed: “What happened yesterday was a stain. A stain that weighs on Mr. Kouroublis himself. He called the New Democracy colleagues” murderers “, called the representatives of the Greek people” murderers “and refused to reconstruct. he did not reconstruct, he did not recall, he certifies that this is exactly what he wanted to say in Parliament that in the perception of a SYRIZA MP, his New Democracy colleagues are “murderers”. “We also stressed this in Parliament yesterday. Either Mr. Kouroublis would reconstruct it or he would be taken out of the SYRIZA Parliamentary Group. And that’s done.”

However, as he pointed out, “if we look at the evolution of the opposition’s rhetoric, the way in which Mr. Tsipras and SYRIZA have been behaving lately, we will see that this incident was not an isolated behavior. It was the tip of the iceberg. It is The expression of the toxic opposition that the leader of the official opposition has chosen, to focus on the pandemic, was the tip of the iceberg of an opposition characterized by slander, vulgar characterizations, which, if it does not adopt accusations and myths. which, unfortunately, undermines the pandemic of the pandemic, the functioning of the economy and education, in the hope of gaining political benefits.We ended up there yesterday, “The opposition that Mr Tsipras has chosen to do. That is the reality.”

G. Economou: Tomorrow’s announcements by the Prime Minister are very substantial

“We expect very substantial announcements from the Prime Minister tomorrow in Parliament that will have a direct imprint and reflection on households, on people,” said Giannis Oikonomou in an interview with the radio station “SKAI 100.3” about the measures to alleviate energy price hikes. .

The government spokesman said that the rise in prices is a global phenomenon and that what people are interested in is that it has upset family budgets.

“From the first moment we took measures and supported in this direction. The phenomenon is dynamic. We continue in this direction, to have as small an imprint as possible,” he added.