Alexis Tsipras launched a fierce attack on the government and Kyriakos Mitsotakis personally for the way the pandemic is being dealt with, in an interview on Alpha's main newscast. «Mr Mitsotakis has been infected by the virus of arrogance and does not understand the difficulties of the citizens», the President of SYRIZA - Progressive Alliance noted and said that the countdown has begun for the government of Kyriakos Mitsotakis.
Alexis Tsipras referred to a theatre of the absurd as he said there are no real data on the course of the pandemic in our country. «The number of molecular tests falls short so that there is a real picture for experts. There are no serious epidemiological surveillance studies,» the opposition leader noted, adding:
«Triple the tests, not like a lottery but targeted, where there is a suspicion of cases. The issue is that when schools open, they should open with fewer students per class, with serious protection measures. We cannot leave workers to their fate.».
Alexis Tsipras called the new lockdown after 3 months of lockdown a seal of government failure, a new lockdown.
«What were they celebrating in Ikaria, the 6,000 dead?»
Referring to the Ikaria fiasco, the president of SYRIZA - PC noted that this is the second blunder of Kyriakos Mitsotakis. «Mr Mitsotakis has been infected by the virus of arrogance and does not understand the difficulties of citizens,» he said.
«Because if a prime minister who cannot deliver on the measures he announces, he cannot have any confidence in the Greek people. But I think that a bigger scandal than the scandal of this image itself - within quotation marks - of this very repulsive image, and I will explain why, was the way that the New Democracy staff tried to manage it in terms of communication. By trying to go low in the media, by pressure, by announcements on ERT, on public television in the workplace don't play this video, by statements by executives that come on, our prime minister is so popular that the people love him.
One would expect honesty. And they got to the point, the panic leads there, one of my events, not obviously an event, an event that was a meeting with stakeholders, with journalists and cameras present. It was not a lunch to say that we are all the same,» Alexis Tsipras said.
«It is a picture that the Prime Minister is sending out that gives us all the feeling that he does not feel what the average citizen is experiencing today. These musicians, these chambers of traditional songs, this feast, what exactly were they celebrating? So you who saw this picture, I am leaving the part that is purely about compliance, what exactly were they celebrating? Were they celebrating the 6,000 dead? The thousands of our people who are grieving? The hundreds we have in intensive care today? Or the anxiety of the average citizen not getting sick?» he asked meaningfully.
«The countdown for the government has begun»
Alexis Tsipras stressed that «the countdown has begun for the government of Mr Mitsotakis, the decay has begun. And you know, when this deterioration begins, it makes no sense for anyone to rely either on communicative supremacy or on communication. One can only rely on substance and not on communication.
Because especially in our time, which is also an age when technologies cannot hide a news story, a news story cannot be hidden from the internet, to put all one's weight behind the formulation of communication policy is legitimate, but it has a limit.
I believe that wear and tear has begun. And in any case, I believe that the political time in the next period will be very condensed.».
«However,» Alexis Tsipras continued, «if Mr. Mitsotakis listens to these suggestions of his advisors who see the polls and saw the rise - now they see the fall - and say to him «go to the elections now and defeat your opponent before this fall starts to be rapid», if he does that, I believe that he will suffer on election night, that is, if he goes to the elections in the middle of the pandemic, when he has two more years under the Constitution, he will suffer a big, huge electoral shock. Neither the polls will save him, nor the counts, nor anything.».
Read in detail the interview of Alexis Tsipras in the following file
