At a demonstration political acrobatics with the aim of linking SYRIZA to the bomb attack on the Real FM radio station Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis addressed the House of Representatives today. He arbitrarily linked this action to yesterday’s statements by Christoforos Vernardakis regarding Niki Kerameos, as well as to the criticism leveled at the bill on universities byof the official opposition.
As the prime minister argued, «All of this has a beginning, a middle, and an end in SYRIZA’s despicable behavior. Mr. Polakis’s «three meters underground,» Mr. Fili’s knives, Mr. Vernardakis’s matricide—all of this from a party that talks about the quality of public discourse and the media. Because that’s what some so-called «Reporters Without Borders» said, —and, in fact, on the very same day that bombs were planted in the offices of a TV station that had yesterday harshly criticized Vernardakis’s statements. »Vulgarity without borders.”.
Kyriakos Mitsotakis had previously spoken about «the notorious «moral high ground,» because we must not forget that Mr. Vernardakis’s misdeeds were preceded by other misdeeds against the Minister of Education. Didn’t you tell us, Mr. Fili, that the Minister has two children, and that when they grow up, they will remember her as the mother who, when they were young, slaughtered—like a modern-day Herod— 20,000 18-year-olds from the universities?».
Strong reaction
This public relations move appears to have provoked the wrath of the Koumoundourou headquarters, which «sees» it as an attempt by the government to slander SYRIZA and to «shirk» its responsibility for the «Orbán-style» conditions it has created in the media and news landscape.
SYRIZA members are reminded of the infamous «Petsa List» case, which epitomizes the financial blackmail of the media. This is precisely the case documented by the organization «Reporters Without Borders,» an official partner of the European Commission. They also highlight the prime minister’s practice of labeling “underworld” the journalists who exposed the Novartis scandal, as well as the fact that the case of the murder of journalist G. Karaivaz has still not been solved.
The party’s spokesperson, Nasos Iliopoulos, in a Twitter post referring to the prime minister’s remarks in Parliament, called him “ruthless.”.
Vulgar, ruthless, and dangerous—in a word, Mitsotakis.
— Nasos Iliopoulos (@n_iliopoulos) July 13, 2022
