“Greece has come around a difficult foreland,” said Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, speaking at a pre-electoral rally in the city of Patras, northern Peloponnese, on Saturday evening, expressing how pleased he feels to be addressing the proud city where leftist mathematician Nikos Temboneras was martyred during students’ protests in 1991.
“Kyriakos Mitsotakis and his associates are not keen to pursue a radical political change, but are only aiming to simply perform a change in politics,” said Tsipras and appeared adamant that his political opposition wants to “return to yesterday’s Greece, to regress,” and said that this cannot be allowed to happen.
“Mitsotakis and his party have only fought hard to prevent Greece exiting the memoranda on August 21, 2018, thus preventing real change,” said Tsipras.
“He was advocating disaster and collapse, scaremongering about pension cuts or a fourth memorandum,” said Tsipras, adding that “as elections draw nearer, they are getting anxious, employing every trick in the book, trying to create a negative virtual reality against SYRIZA’s dynamic potential.”
“But the result of the European elections will crush this virtual reality,” said Tsipras, and went on to say that soon will be the first time in a European election that voters will not reject the government, but the opposition.
Europe stands at a crossroads, said Alexis Tsipras, and warned of the rise of right-wing and far-right political forces, against what he believes is a “path to progress, the progressive way.”
“There is another Europe, said the Greek Prime Minister, “a Europe of solidarity, of shared responsibility, a Europe of the people, of social rights, of equality,” he concluded.
Source: ANA-MPA
Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras to address rally in Patras on Saturday evening