Verbal confrontation in the Parliament over PM Tsipras' interview
"Any agreement the Greek government reaches, any agreement which will take the Greek economy out of the vicious circle of austerity will probably make you a historical parenthesis," State Minister Nikos Pappas on Tuesday (28/04) said during the debate on public broadcaster NERIT in Parliament in reply to main opposition deputies' comments on Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras' interview.
"Your party has a consistent strategy. It is waiting for the country to fall into the rocks so as to verify the scenario of the left parenthesis," Pappas said.
"You continue to believe that the country's interests coincide with the options of the German government. This policy has been tested and has been disapproved by the Greek people. We will exhaust all the negotiating opportunities of the country," he added.
New Democracy deputy Makis Voridis has earlier accused the prime minister of joining the 'Merkelists'. "You used to call us 'Merkelists'. I guess that this group has been enlarged since yesterday.
Because after the prime minister's interview, we can see that he has obviously understood the Chancellor's graces, her clear policy direction, her struggle and all that. The insults, the criticism and the derogatory characterizations belong to the past. But now things have changed," Voridis stated.
On his part, New Democracy parliamentary spokesman Adonis Georgiadis intervened to agree with his colleague that the government has turned to 'Merkelism' although Tsipras was saying in the pre-election period that he has no reason to ask for a meeting with the German Chancellor.
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