Government spokesman Pavlos Marinakis sent a clear message to Antonis Samaras, after the interview with the former prime minister, who launched a fierce attack against the government. Speaking to SKAI, Mr. Marinakis noted that there is no reason for a political confrontation “with a former prime minister who says what he believes”, however he added that if Mr. Samaras proceeds to create a new party, then “he will be one of our political opponents and we will oppose each other politically”.
The government representative emphasized that the government’s priority is to focus on issues that touch the everyday lives of citizens: “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.”
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Responding to Antonis Samaras’s statement that the New Democracy “has been politicized” and does not practice a center-right policy, Pavlos Marinakis called this accusation “the most unfair”: “The founding declaration of the ND itself pushes us to leave the labels, especially in 2025. Kyriakos Mitsotakis is the prime minister who has reduced the most taxes than any other 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.” Continuing, he pointed out: “If this Greece – which has gone from the Greece of the tie to the Greece of the Congress – if all this politics is not centre-right, then tell me what is. I don’t like labels, I like to talk with arguments.”