Heavy political responsibilities that constitute a political scandal, but also an inelegant attempt to cover up the government for the case Lignadi the president of the SYRIZA-Progressive Alliance Alexis Tsipras asking the Prime Minister to make a self-criticism.
«The vulgar are within the walls, not outside. Don't throw the ball in the Platform, the problem is you, not others, you and only you. And that is where the cleansing must begin,» he said.
During his speech at the Parliament in the context of the ongoing debate on the quality of public and political discourse, the leader of the opposition appeared particularly harsh, accusing the Prime Minister for «hypocrisy» and commented that Mr Mitsotakis chose today in the ministerial benches not to sit Mrs Mendoni but Mrs Agapidaki. «You are making a mistake you have not realize that SYRIZA is not being accused, but you have to apologize to society,» Al. Tsipras wondering why the Prime Minister did not even feel the need to apologize for everything that has happened. At the beginning of his speech, he noted that although the Prime Minister indicated that he did not wish to lower the level of discussion to the level of a third amateur in football he ultimately chose to lower it to the level of amateur football.
Alexis Tsipras accused the government that he attempted to portray public allegations and revelations as a violation of the presumption of innocence and commented that «if any presumption of innocence is in question, it is the presumption of the Prime Minister's political innocence».
At the same time, he said that the shadow of Mrs. Mendoni falls on Mr. Mitsotakis wondering why he protects it and continues to support it despite the outcry of the whole art world against it. «I wonder along with all public opinion. Why do you support her so passionately? Is there some guilty secret we don't know? I for one cannot believe that a minister can blackmail the prime minister,» he said, as the responsibility objectively belongs to the prime minister anyway. He then raised a series of questions about the Minister of Culture's moves and initiatives in relation to the case of Lignadi, asking, among other things, whether she decided not to go to court from the first moment of the first public complaint on 6 February.
He accused the government of «distracting the shame» and asked what signals the Southwest is sending to the perpetrators with a «waterloo management» when, for example, the director of the Press Office of the Southwest attempts to label the SEH as «leftist», when the Minister of Development argues that the leftists hate Mendoni because she unblocked investments in Hellenic, and when the Minister of State said that the resignation of Lignadi was requested when the chilling complaint of Nikos S was published but he did not say it (the government earlier) so as not to shame him «not to throw him to the dogs».
The opposition leader noted that the prime minister is «allergic to dialogue», while on political culture he recalled that «while you were leader of the opposition you had become a permanent transponder within the Parliament of the arguments of the internet trolls». Therefore, he recalled that from the mouth of Mr Mitsotakis came out in parliament «the unbelievable slander that we exchanged the Macedonia with the pensions» and manifested «the attempt to morally discredit my dead father as an alleged collaborator of the junta». He accused Prime Minister that he signed off on misdeeds in parliament which, as he said, goes beyond the limits of hypocrisy and enters the territory of hypocrisy.
