Syriza spokesman: Gov't must brief Parliament on tank agreement with Germany

Speaking on Skai TV, Iliopoulos pointed out that the agreement between the Greek and German leaders that the former would send old tanks to Ukraine and have them replaced by the latter with newer ones "should have been made public to the Greek people, because it is not an insignificant issue by any means that Greece continues to send war material to Ukraine." Greece is not Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis' personal property "to make such decisions on his own," he added.

The main opposition spokesman asserted that Greece should support Ukraine and international law and send humanitarian help, "but not get militarily involved." Dispatching tanks to Ukraine will threaten Greece's security, he noted, while he queried the full content of the tank agreement with Germany. "Does Greece have another obligation?" through this agreement, he asked, and called on the government to brief Parliament immediately.

Syriza's spokesman also said that "Mitsotakis' strategy of seeing Turkey as a predictable ally creates further issues," and added that Greece "should not have been involved in this strange situation with Iran," opening additional fronts. Speaking of the name issue for North Macedonia, Iliopoulos noted, "If the name issue had not been resolved with North Macedonia, right now he would be signing the membership of our neighboring country in NATO as 'Macedonia'."