Potami leader on universities, cooperation with main parties
Opposition Potami party leader Stavros Theodorakis on Thursday expressed his views on restricting the general public's access to university grounds and buildings, as well as the prospect of cooperating with the two main parties, in statements on the private broadcaster SKAI.
"The question is whether we want universities in our country to be guarded or not," he said, adding that Potami's view on this issue was a clear-cut 'yes' and that universities, not the state, must find a way to guard them.
"....the parties have no business in the universities," he underlined, saying he did not understand the idea that students needed 'protectors' from within the political parties to handle their affairs.
Asked if Potami was "against the system," Theodorakis said that Potami "preferred more down-to-earth expressions".
"We oppose - and consider a very big problem of the country - the old party system. In other words, I consider that very many problems of the country, the economy, society, education, health, emanate from the existence of party dynasty, a party yoke that is not only made up of the parties that are in government. Often it is the parties in the opposition that have big unions and block things," he said.
On the prospects of a meeting soon with either Prime Minister Antonis Samaras or main opposition SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras, Theodorakis stressed that Potami had its own proposal that he wanted to submit to the two leaders.
"We are not getting in line...Potami has not given a white flag or a blank cheque to anyone. It has its own proposal for society and will defend this proposal, either with Samaras or with Tsipras."
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