“No escape of the prime minister took place in Alexandroupolis”
“Madness and unimaginable things have been heard”was his first comment Pavlos Marinakis asked for yesterday’s visit of Kyriakos Mitsotakis to Rodopiclarifying that no escape of the prime minister took place.
“He normally left through a security exit from the airport where specific persons leave for security reasons. An associate of the prime minister was asked if the farmers who were there want to meet the prime minister. The answer was that because there was a rally in progress, they did not want a delegation to meet the prime minister at that time,” said Mr. Marinakis speaking to SKAI.
As he said, the big picture is the announcement for the extension of the refund of the Special Consumption Tax (SCT) on agricultural oil. At the same time, with regard to OPEKEPE, the government representative admitted that the specific issue is not in the government’s favour, which however “had already sent suspicious VAT numbers to the Prosecutor before the European Public Prosecutor’s Office came”.
The discussion then turned to political current affairs, starting with the interview of Antonis Samaras, who launched an all-out attack on the government.
“I don’t think that right now it’s our job to get into a confrontation process with a former prime minister who says what he believes. If and if he confirms the rumors and joins a party, then he will be one of our political opponents and we will fight each other politically.” commented. “I think it is more important than my role to tell young people that from January they will have zero taxation. I prefer to talk about dealing with accuracy, I prefer to talk that our country has the lowest food inflation for another 1 month. People are interested in this.”
In fact, the government representative characterized as the “most unfair” accusation of Antonis Samaras that the ND has now become grassroots instead of doing center-right politics.
“The founding declaration of the ND itself pushes us to leave the labels, especially in 2025. Kyriakos Mitsotakis is the prime minister who has cut the most taxes of any predecessor. You probably call it liberal. He is the prime minister who shielded our borders, dealt with migration crises, reduced flows by 80%. He is the prime minister who equips the country, the prime minister of Chevron, ExxonMobil and Marine Spatial Planning.”
And he added saying:
“If this Greece – which from the Greece of the tie became the Greece of the Congress – if all this politics is not center-right, then tell me what is. I don’t like labels, I like to talk with arguments.”