"Mr. Mitsotakis's interview tonight was a display of arrogance, hypocrisy, and political desperation," SYRIZA said in a statement.
"Mr. Mitsotakis is under investigation for OPEKEPE and is not an opponent of a 'deep state,' which he supposedly discovered after seven years in government. He made repeated changes to the administration, and his own ministers and MPs are implicated in the two cases currently under investigation by the European Public Prosecutor’s Office.
Mr. Mitsotakis is under investigation for the wiretapping scandal and the Predator affair, yet he has not uttered a single word. At a time when new revelations link Intellexa to state security agencies, he hid behind the statement “the case is before the courts.”
Mr. Mitsotakis is under investigation for the Tempi disaster and chose once again to dismiss those seeking truth and justice. No matter how hard he tries to rewrite history, the 57 dead, the massive safety failures, and the cover-up cannot be erased.
Mr. Mitsotakis is, in fact, on the defensive. It is not enough to acknowledge that fuel taxes drive price hikes when he refuses any discussion of reducing VAT and the Special Consumption Tax. In other words, he acknowledges the problem and defends its cause!
Since he himself is asking to be judged as prime minister, let him be held accountable as prime minister for OPEKEPE, for the wiretaps, for the Tempi incident, for the high cost of living, and for the institutional decline that now bears his signature alone.
Greece deserves much more than the current situation. The country needs political change and a fundamental shift in the substance of the policies being implemented.