“Communication war” ND-PASOK in the wake of the Mitsotakis post – “Where will you find the money?” – “You gave thanks to the oligarchs”

OR prime minister’s sunday post, Kyriakou Mitsotakisin which he took stock of the week, was the reason for him to break out fierce political confrontation and “war” of announcements between the government and the PASOK.

In his post, the prime minister focused on two central axes: energywith references to “Vertical Corridor» and drilling in Corfu with Exxon Mobil, and the events at Crete. For gun ownership, he introduced one 12 point plan which includes, among other things, converting possession of a handgun into felony and the voluntary surrender of arms.

“You gave thanks to the oligarchs”

Shortly after the post, the press representative of PASOK, Kostas Tsoukalaslaunched a fierce attack, calling Mr. Mitsotakis “Outgoing Prime Minister in a government in unprecedented disintegration.” PASOK’s criticism focused on several fronts. Initially, Mr. Tsoukalas accused the prime minister of not answering for her absence of from the debate on economic measures in Parliament and from her conference KEDE.Then, referring to Cretecriticized Mr. Mitsotakis that “he did not find a single word to disapprove of unprovoked statements of the Minister of Health”, which, according to PASOK, confirms a “directed plan turning a blind eye to the foci of delinquency”. Moreover, on her subject energyaccused the government of “appropriating” projects, saying that the PASOK government with him law 4001/2011 It paved the way for hydrocarbon exploration, which, he said, the ND initially “blocked”. Finally, he accused the government that “instead of the energy belonging to 10,000,000 Greeks, bestowed upon five oligarchic systems».

The… leaf trees

The government representative, Pavlos Marinakisresponded immediately, accusing PASOK of populism and hypocrisy, especially on the issue of tax breaks. After defending the tax reform as the “biggest in recent years”, he went on the counterattack by posing three questions to PASOK.

First, he asked how PASOK explains that Greece has one of them lower food inflation in Europe, since the government is “failed”. Secondly, he asked to know why PASOK “upvoted” to the Parliament the tax reductions, which “exploded” when the prime minister announced them to the TIF. Finally, he asked the official opposition party “where will he find the money? to finance and all the rest which he has ordered’, since he supported the current measures.

“We leave you to your lies and hypocrisy”

The confrontation did not stop there, as o Kostas Tsoukalas came back with a new, harsher announcement. He accused Mr. Marinakis of “throwing the ball into the platform” and not responding to the Prime Minister’s absences.

The representative of PASOK, in fact, gave his own definition of populism, responding to the accusation of the government representative. “PopulismMr. Marinakis, is to have brought society to its limits, and… to say that prices are deescalating”, he said, adding that populism is “after the biggest tax raid… through indirect taxation, to claim that you are reducing taxes”. Mr. Tsoukalas closed his answer with a new edge on the issue of Crete, saying that populism is “appearing the vice president of your party as preacher of the use of arms“, photographing Adonis Georgiadis again. “We leave you to your lies and hypocrisy,” concluded the PASOK statement.