Alexis Tsipras launched a scathing attack on Kyriakos Mitsotakis and the New Democracy party from Tripoli, where he toured and spoke to citizens, claiming that the current government is «the worst right-wing government we have seen since the post-communist era».
He said that he says this «not only because he has plundered the middle class, despite what he promised it, in order to support a few powerful people’, but also because of »the miseries he has done with the issues of democracy and the rule of law, with the surveillance, the manipulation of justice, with the miseries he has done all these days under the pretext of blocking the Kasidiaris party«. He argued in particular: »Yesterday the whole plan was revealed. They were telling us that they were supposedly trying to take out Kasidiaris, who was allowed to campaign for 3 years from prison, and they changed the law not following the obvious, what we proposed to them, namely to add to the existing law an explicit sentence that those who are definitively convicted of crimes of 157 of the CP will not be able to run their parties or those who have such in their combinations. They did not do that. They gave the jurisdiction to a closed group of judges to decide who can run and who cannot.«.
«Because in the end», stressed the president of SYRIZA PS, «their goal was not Kasidiaris, but to control which parties will run and which will not from the so-called ”right-wing building”». «And a bomb fell on the right-wing apartment building these days,» he commented, saying that «some ”apartments” were destroyed and collapsed, some others remained intact.» «The ”apartments” of those parties that have declared their faith in Mitsotakis for the next election day will run in the elections, those that have not declared their faith will not run,» Tsipras noted, adding: «Now it is revealed exactly what the president of the Supreme Court division who resigned just before Easter, denouncing methodologies and that Mr. Gerapetritis caught him in a cafe outside Maximou and told him do this and that and we will make you head of an independent authority.’ »People don't hesitate anywhere, they are a regime, they are ruthless,« he said.
Tsipras noted that «we have one thing to say in the face of this misery, and I am referring to all democratic citizens: on May 22, Greece must become a normal European country, not only to restore justice everywhere, but to bring democracy back to power».
He stressed that there are two versions on the evening of May 21: «the big interests, the establishment and the oligarchs should celebrate, if the first party is the New Democracy of Mr Mitsotakis, or the people, the democrats and progressive citizens should take to the streets in the evening to celebrate, because if SYRIZA wins, we will have a government of progressive cooperation the next day».
