PM Mitsotakis: Democracy will be protected by an ND victory in the upcoming elections
epa10433512 Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis delivers a speech, during a debate on motion of censure, at the Greek Parliament, in Athens, Greece, 27 January 2023. Greek main opposition SYRIZA – Progressive Alliance leader Alexis Tsipras, tabled a motion of censure against the government, accusing Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis of orchestrating mass wiretaps of political allies and foes. EPA, ORESTIS PANAGIOTOU
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Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis began his speech in Parliament on Friday, during a debate on a censure motion against the government tabled by main opposition SYRIZA-Progressive Alliance, by referring to the Greek Jewish Martyrs and Heros of the Holocaust Remembrance Day.
“Allow me to begin with a reference that is every MP’s historic duty. Almost eight decades since the liberation of Auschwitz, we Greeks bow with respect to the sacred shadow of our 60,000 compatriots who died in the concentration camps. The fact that even this reference can not get a round of applause from all the [parties in parliament] says something about the level of toxicity of political speech,” Mitsotakis said.
“The honour to the victims is accompanied by our obligation to not forget. It is Democracy’s duty to block the way to the successors of nazism and to the deniers of the Holocaust. Together with all the world we agree on the slogan, ‘never again’,” the Greek prime minister added.
“Democracy will be protected through a New Democracy victory in the upcoming elections. We are nearing the end of the four-year term. It is my estimate that the citizens will once again relegate you to the opposition; they do not forget, they evaluate and either reward or punish,” Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Friday, addressing the main opposition SYRIZA-Progressive Alliance party during the last day of the debate in Parliament on a censure motion against the government tabled by main opposition leader Alexis Tsipras.
Mitsotakis noted that he has been calling on SYRIZA-PA to table a censure motion for the last five months, which it had finally done, and that this, along with general elections, was the way that political parties resolve their differences.
Source: ANA – MPA
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