N. Androulakis: Messrs. Mitsotakis and Tsipras, it is time to change the page

“Mr. Mitsotakis has also been judged, Mr. Tsipras has also been judged: one spoke of delusions, the other lives with delusions. I believe that the time has come for our country to change its page.” This was emphasized from the podium of the “Economic Post” forum by the president of PASOK – Movement for Change, Nikos Androulakis. Reiterating his assessment that on the night of the elections, New Democracy and SYRIZA will be on the side of the losers and his party on the side of the winners, he went one step further, noting that with such a result “we will have the power to we impose our own policies and highly credible people “.

After all, as he had the opportunity to point out elsewhere, “if someone believes in program collaborations, as I believe, as our party believes, they will prove it from the first Sunday. If they prove it from the first Sunday, things will “They are completely different for both the country and the political system.”

According to the president of PASOK-Movement for Change, the first election Sunday will not be a formal procedure, accusing the government at this point of constitutional indecency. However, he also blamed the prime minister personally, on the occasion of what he said from the podium of the same forum on Tuesday, specifically that he changed his approach because “he does not get the beans (…) now that he is under pressure, he is making his own political deadlocks”. And, in “for these”, “I consider opportunism the change of attitude of the government, a lifeline to a government that is immersed in its mistakes, its arrogance, the lack of a strategic plan for the country, I am not going to give”, he clarified with emphasis.

However, Mr. Androulakis also had arrows in his quiver for the official opposition party: “SYRIZA does not have specific positions and a strategic plan for the development of the economy. It has learned virtually nothing from the failure of its government and continues to do the same things.” Mr. Tsipras, makes populist approaches “.

He also blamed the president of SYRIZA-Progressive Alliance for his stance on the ongoing war: “The former prime minister’s first reaction to the war in Ukraine was to make a … heart, half in the colors of Ukraine and the other half in “How would the Greek people feel if in 1974, at the time of the invasion of Cyprus, a former prime minister of a western country took out a heart with half the flag of Turkey and half the flag of Greece?”, he wondered and continued, ” “We stand worthy, where there is a violation of international law, the democratic faction is opposite.”

At the same time, he criticized the government in other fields, for example, accusing Kyriakos Mitsotakis of fiscal irresponsibility during the pandemic. Specifically, he claimed that the government … boasted about the fourth world, fiscal expansion, but now, at the core of the energy crisis, “it has run out of” fuel “and Mr. Mitsotakis tells us that it has no money tree”.

Elsewhere, he pointed out the government’s mistakes, as he said, in the issue of energy accuracy (increase in gas use and full connection with the stock market value), recalling that first PASOK-Movement for Change had spoken about a ceiling in the adjustment clause and for taxation of profiteers. “Mr. Mitsotakis throws the ball in Brussels for the wholesale, but for the retail in Greece, he does not score goals”, was another, characteristic report of his.

The interview with journalists D. Maniatis and N. Filippidis, started with the recent visit of Mr. Androulakis to Portugal and the contacts he had there with Antonio Costa, how in particular the Portuguese model can be used by our country.