By attacking the “Mitsotakis regime,” he said, he began his performance at the Sputnik festival of his youth. SYRIZA party president, Alexis Tsipras, saying that “this regime that crushes the dreams and the future of a new generation can and will fall from the young men and women of our country.”

Mr. Tsipras said the steps towards democracy, freedom and pluralism that have been taken in the post-colonial period are challenged by “a government that, knowing that its policies serve the few and inspire despair in the many, hastened to build a regime. That does not threaten her political opponents. This directly threatens democracy itself. And it aims to control information. Waste of public wealth. Control of political opponents. Intimidation and harassment of troubled journalists. The suppression of the social struggle and especially the struggle of the youth. The poverty of the methods they use to enforce this regime should not surprise us. Because it goes well with the wretchedness of their politics. Or, in other words, the more pathetic the policies they try to impose, the more pathetic the methods they use become.”

He further accused the Prime Minister that “the stability of the dirty profit that Mr. Mitsotakis promised to the well-fed, confused and parasitic elite is not ensured either by democracy or transparency. That’s why they follow these miserable methods. That’s why Mr. Mitsotakis set up his regime. That’s why he created his semi-public company. To strengthen their position in power. And to secure a profit for the few and the elite who supported him to be elected, as a counter-gift for them to continue to support him.”

Source: APE/MEB