His relationships Kyriakou Mitsotakis with him Nikos Dendias “it is at the best level” the government representative said on Wednesday morning, Pavlos Marinakis “because Dendias is at the forefront of very important successes, they have a common understanding and result”.
After repeating that the prime minister’s change-on-the-fly scenario is a “fairy tale” and reminding that Kyriakos Mitsotakis “has said he will be judged by the voters and not by the parapolitical kitchen”, Mr. Marinakis said that “the most unfair accusation against this government is for foreign policy and defense”.
“During the years of Mitsotakis, Dendias in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Defense, Gerapetritis, Greece achieved what it had not achieved for 15 years: EEZ with Italy, Rafale, Belharra. The inhabitants of the islands and Evros will remember who protected them in 2020 with the hybrid attack” added in this context the government representative.
In fact, when asked about this, Mr. Marinakis was categorical that “he is not in any phase restructuring the government. It was done 7 months ago, there is no intention nor is it in the prime minister’s horizon. I think we have achieved significant success recently. in the last few weeks alone we have the second lowest food inflation in Europe, we have a 35% reduction in hospital outpatient waiting times, we have the lowest unemployment in 16 years. I don’t remember a 2nd 4-year government that was clearly first in the elections and the polls. In these 10 years, unprecedented situations have occurred, we have made mistakes but also important ones”.
On the occasion of the holding of the parades for October 28 without tensions, Mr. Marinakis pointed out that “the first thing that has changed is the doctrine is to apply the law, we see it in the universities, in the stadiums where we saw a government putting its intentions into practice. The second is that there was the myth of revolutionary endings and illegal acts as activism. A part of society was led astray, but now society has understood that this is taking Greece backwards.”
“Someone invested in the turmoil. In the last period on the occasion of the hunger strike of a grieving father, some of the political parties invested politically in the mess. There is also the aspect of provocation, there is a certain political space that is nourished by such practices. The police won’t do them any favors. We are succeeding in enforcing the law but we won’t be doing them any favors. Unfortunately, the amendment was necessary because we were not all on the same page,” he added.
Called, finally, to position himself on the scenarios for the parties of Tsipras, Samaras and Karystianou, Pavlos Marinakis said that “the country was governed by the logic of 15 members, politics is not done in terms of 15 members, we cannot talk about hypothetical personal parties. The parties must answer questions about who you will govern with, with what foreign policy. We cannot measure a government with measurable work, an opposition that is in parliament with something hypothetical and indefinite.”