Theodorakis lashes out at government
At a Potami meeting in Parliament, Theodorakis said the government's attitude was to pretend they are "sympathetic pro-Europeanists in Brussels and Berlin, and nationalist-populist and Stalinists in Athens" and made fun of them about relations with China: "'We will not turn the port into Chinatown!' the relevant minister says, and he has to go to Beijing before we find out that we will turn it into Chinatown with pleasure, as long as the Chinese help us a bit with 200 million in interest-bearing bills."
Theodorakis called on Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras to decide on whether he wants Greece to remain in the euro, as the Greek people have mandated, saying that decisions on the country's future are not an affair of a single party and called talks with European partners "a fiasco with negotiation amateurisms."
Among other criticism he levelled at the government and its creditors, the Potami leader said, "As talkative as the ministers are - and some of them are meddlesome in terms of the [SYRIZA] party - they have not even managed to put together a list of reforms. It's because campaign rhetoric is one thing, and government policy is another."
Some can and others are not able, Theodorakis said, "so Tsipras is obliged to transform himself from an enthusiastic European in Berlin to the manager of a suffocating inter-party and governmental environment that is dominated by personalities and fixations of the past."
He added that it was imperative Tsipras take a clear stance: "Alexis Tsipras must decide - reforms and Greece's remaining in Europe, or exit and national tragedy, that is the dilemma." The Greek people's mandate is for "a state of justice with economic and social protection, a European country - not a country dipping its feet in obsessions and nationalisms with bowed citizens looking for Third World support," he charged.
The Potami leader said time is running out and the only solution for Greece is to break with interests groups, unionists and those who undermine the country's European path, not to listen to those who paint a rosy picture of a transition to a local currency.
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