With the positions of party leaders, as well as voting, debates at the plenary session of parliament on vote of no confidence against the government that SYRIZA filed on Wednesday.

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Al. Tsipras: Mr Mitsotakis is in charge of monitoring

Starting his speech, the leader of the official opposition, Alexis Tsipras, accused Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis of “doing everything possible to prevent this moment from coming”, trying to “hide the truth in the dark”, while adding that “there are no reports today, there is evidence from an official body of the state.” “Against this evidence, you must answer,” he pointed out.

“It will not be easy for you, Mr. Mitsotakis, to put him on his feet,” he said, stressing that “you did not even have the courage to turn a vote of no confidence into a vote of confidence. Mr. Tsipras called Mr. Mitsotakis an “instructor” in surveillance, accusing him of “knowing everything and lying everywhere for six months.” “You knew about the surveillance because you ordered it,” he said .

The President of SYRIZA spoke of the prime minister’s panic and arrogance, accusing him of trying to cover up the wiretapping case and subjugate institutions such as the judiciary. Speaking of an “organized plan,” Mr. Tsipras emphasized: “Instead of taking responsibility and resigning or pointing out the culprits and bringing them to justice, you continued to subvert and kill the truth. You are twice guilty.

“It was your decision to take charge of EYP, you changed the law,” Mr. Tsipras stressed, accusing Mr. Mitsotakis of putting people of his choice in a critical situation. He also called the prime minister’s “personal decision” an “attack on ADAE because it is doing its constitutional duty.”

“On the question of guilt or stupidity, you voluntarily chose the second option,” he said, turning to the prime minister, and continued: “You preferred to take on the role of a prime minister with limited mental abilities than to take on your duties.” “Even if we accept the initial objections that he didn’t know, even if we accept that he had no idea, that those he sent — his nephew Mr. Dimitriadis and EYP commander Mr. Contoleon — did more two years based at Megaro Maximos – I have a question: when you fired them, didn’t you ask them what happened? Mr. Tsipras said, adding, “Or were they also referring to your personal space?”

Mr. Tsipras said he was not in the mood to personally imply that the prime minister lacks insight and does not underestimate him at all. “But he is to blame,” he said.

Sacorapha: “A serious crime against the Republic”

“These wiretappings are a serious crime against the republic,” said MeRA25 deputy, deputy speaker of parliament Sophia Sakorafa in her speech on the vote of no confidence in the government.

Representing the president of the MeRA25 parliamentary group, Janis Varoufakis, who is in Cuba with the permission of the parliament, in the context of the activities of the Progressive International and the formation of a new Non-Aligned Movement, Ms. Sacorafa said that wiretapping “is not a crime and not even an offense. Politically, it is more than a criminal offense, if it ever was. And so it will be written historically, as happened with the 1965 apostasy.”

He argued that this “outrageous case” is not a matter of confrontation and comparison between the two administrations: “When we talk about wiretapping between the Prime Minister’s office and EEM, the difference is not between the government and the opposition. The dilemma is not with or against the government. The dilemma is for or against democracy,” the MeRA25 member said, noting that we should not turn the relevant debate in parliament into a “show” comparing the two governments.

According to him, the dilemma that MPs faced when expanding the government is party discipline or democratic conscience, “but there is no hope.” The very executives who happen to be watched say they are almost pleased with this fact. As we can see, in the face of power and interests, there is no trace of personal dignity, unless it is Stockholm syndrome, the vice speaker of the chamber said.

Even referring to her personal experience, she said: “I found myself in two important moments, feeling that my principles and values ​​were being put to the extreme test. When the memos arrived, it was not easy to say no to either PASOK or SYRIZA, but I assure you it was worth it in the end. However, he urged “no one to be upset”, saying: “I am not speaking for you and not for today. Today we know what your final position will be. After all, your political gene carries violence, and fraud, and trees that voted, and xeronesia, and even quotes about your political opponents.

Finally, he said that it was more than clear that MeRA25 was voting for a vote of no confidence. “We always accuse the state of links with the oligarchy and semi-state structures,” stressed MeRA25 MP and Parliament Vice Speaker S. Sakorafa.