Nikos Pappas did not leave the symbolic, as reported by prime ministerial circles, unanswered, the movement of Kyriakos Mitsotakis to leave the Plenary Chamber of the Parliament while he was on the podium.
“Mr Mitsotakis, with his current attitude and his double absence from the hall of Parliament, speaking as the president of the second most powerful parliamentary party, is proving that he has contempt for the Rules of Procedure of Parliament and the Constitution” argued the president of KO SYRIZA.
“Let’s talk about the Mitsotakis-Pappa law”
At the same time, he called the prime minister “cowardly” and “guilty”, because on the one hand “he is not in the room to face us” and on the other “he regrets what he orchestrated in our against and me personally” by “continually enforcing the 2019 TV license law, every day”.
At the same time, he suggested “talking about the Mitsotakis-Pappas law” as a fact “more functional and compatible with reality” since “with your own vote, with your own tolerance from July 2019 onwards, it puts the law in effect for television. licences”.
“The TV licenses were issued in 2018, the change of government took place in 2019 and from 19 onwards you apply our law. Thank you for that. Of course, apart from the price of the licenses that the TV stations have to pay,” he said.
Mr. Pappas also said that he expected Mr. Mitsotakis to use the Special Court case on the licenses and that it would be used. He did not expect “this institutional malaise.”
Mitsotakis’ move is a “stigma for New Democracy”.
Speaking to Mr. Mitsotakis, the KO SYRIZA president said, “he has no obligation to like me”. As he said, “I don’t comment on careers because they are not aimed at me”.
N. Pappas also accused Mr. Mitsotakis of “the history of attempts to engage in the internal affairs of other parties” and a new attempt “to choose who and in what way the role of the official opposition will be exercised”.
But as he pointed out while continuing to talk about the prime minister, “he has no right to behave like a spoiled child”, because “everything he wants is outside his responsibilities”.
“His action today is a stain on your faction,” he demanded at the end, saying that he is “under no obligation to forgive anyone. It is his duty to respect the parliamentary order. It is. I don’t know if your internal affairs are bothering him. How much do we care? It is none of his business to represent the official opposition in parliament. full stop.”