PASOK MP Michalis Katrinis spoke about PASOK founder Andreas Papandreou and the 30th anniversary of his passing during an appearance on ANT1 television.
More specifically, while speaking on the program “Good Morning Greece” with journalists Panagiotis Stathis and Stefanos Siskos, he noted that the majority of citizens today consider PASOK’s first four-year term to be the best period of their lives and emphasized that this is not merely a look back at history, but rather a legacy, particularly for the future.
Referring to the conviction of former New Democracy MEP Anna-Michelle Asimakopoulou, he stressed that New Democracy’s embarrassment is evident, as the party is attempting to downplay this specific email leak scandal. Nevertheless, however, as she noted, we have convictions against a New Democracy MEP at the time, a Secretary-General of the Mitsotakis government at the time, as well as two New Democracy sector secretaries at the time, who—with the exception of the Secretary-General of the Ministry of , also have to pay a fine imposed on them by the Personal Data Protection Authority.
This is not a matter of a single email slipping through; it is a systemic breach of trust. New Democracy may downplay all of this, but when those in power cease to feel any shame for anything that has happened, we have an institutional deviation, and we have a government that has adopted a culture of cover-ups, as well as practices and tactics unbecoming of a European country.
Finally, responding to the New Democracy spokesperson and Deputy Minister for Macedonia and Thrace, Kostas Gioulekas, he addressed the critical issue of projects that have not been carried out for the past seven years at the border checkpoints in Macedonia and Thrace—specifically at the Evzoni and Kipoi checkpoints—a matter about which hoteliers in Chalkidiki and Pieria have protested and sent numerous emails.
As a result, thousands of people are inconvenienced, and northern Greece is suffering a massive loss of revenue—all this while nearly 12 million tourists arrive in our country by road each year. And while New Democracy has been in government for seven years, the request to upgrade customs facilities to meet more modern security requirements has been on the table since 2017.