“Another four -year Mitsotakis may indeed be solvent for society and institutions”
“If there is a government that is wasting the potential of the place, such as the Mitsotakis government, it will be a failure for society,” he said. Kostas Tsoukalas Speaking to the 90.1 Parapolitika R/C.
The PASOK-Making Change spokesman added that “if we want political change it is not unlimited time for the country” and how “Another four -year Mitsotakis can indeed be solvent for society, institutions and possibly national interests.”
In the wake of Alexis Tsipras’ resignation, Mr. Tsoukalas said that “In principle this move is an internal issue concerning SYRIZA”pointing out that “obviously, when a former prime minister makes a party, whether it is Tsipras or Samaras or anyone else, it is reasonable to have a weight in political debate and receive increased publicity.” “All this will of course be evaluated after we see what his next actions will be,” he commented.
Called to take a stand on whether the creation of a party by Mr Tsipras will affect PASOK, he said that “if you look at the measurements, it seems that there is no influence on the PASOK voters”. “There is a tank of voters that are the undecided. We want to persuade them to make political change. A new party that intends to address this part of the citizens can possibly favor the New Democracy if it causes a multiplication in the electoral direction of the undecided, “he said.
Mr. Tsoukalas also said that “On the issue of PASOK voters, I think it seems that there is no particular direction and dynamic from a possible party of the former prime minister.” “I do not believe,” he noted, “that an individual narrative of the past can offer the solutions of the future. We have to talk to the future, not with weights of the past, not with the agenda of the past. “
Regarding the former prime minister’s statement, PASOK’s spokesman said he was impressed “the degradation of parliament for his part”. “It is worth noting for a former prime minister to express himself in this way for a field in which, proven, opposition duties can be exercised. I cannot understand why this House does not allow someone to be useful, while one previous gave them or one will give it, “he commented. He added in the same context that “Mr Tsipras has been two times as prime minister, in the context of our parliamentary democracy, and one would expect to consider parliamentary tools important.” He commented that “because he was able to be positioned as a prime minister, I do not think he had exhausted the margins given by the House of Representatives before he diagnosed that this effort was ineffective. But when he says that the reason he leaves is because he cannot be useful parliamentary -he did not say that he cannot be positioned because he is no longer represented by the SYRIZA party -this attitude raises questions about the real motives of his choice. ” He noted that he seems “side -by -side” to say he is not useful, and he did not try to make it useful by taking the floor. “Great parliamentary battles for transparency and accountability with scandals and social inequalities have been fought during the parliamentary period, and in all of this I think a politician with Alexis Tsipras’ experience could be placed,” he said.