Tsipras: Government fully to blame for what is happening and what will happen
Addressing parliament during a party-leaders' debate on the pandemic, main opposition SYRIZA-Progressive Alliance President Alexis Tsipras on Friday said the government was fully to blame "for all that is happening and all that is coming.
"He accused the government of being in the grip of "ideological obsessions" and the "arrogance of power", and of refusing to share the views of society.
According to Tsipras, Greece was in an "extremely difficult" situation, one which demanded that everyone show "a new sense of collectiveness, a new sense of solidarity".
He noted that anyone who, in such a crisis, behaved or handled matters in a self-serving way, whether politically or economically, was not equal to what the circumstances demand.
"Sincerity and devotion, without party and petty party political favours, in the effort to save as many human lives as possible, must be the priority of all of us," he said.
Tsipras also referred to scientists' warnings that a third wave of the pandemic, possibly worse than anything that came before it, could be on the way: "We are not saying this to frighten anyone. We are saying this in order to prepare ourselves and others; the country, society, the national health system and our own selves," he said.
Source: ana-mpa
