SYRIZA – Progressive Alliance President Alexis Tsipras sent a new invitation to Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis for a teleconfrontation between the two, speaking to the people of Grevena, and stressed that if Mr. Mitsotakis has a convincing case for the voters, they will accept the invitation.

“He won’t come and decided to leave,” he says to everyone’s argument. Of course, let’s go to the general dispute. Alas. But do you know what rules and conditions he put in this dispute with the six? Let no one ask another. Nobody. A journalist should not be able to ask a free question. Nobody Why? Because, well, he will reveal five things, a person will say them, well, I understand him,” said Mr. Tsipras and continued:

“But there is no precedent in a European country for someone to want to become prime minister again and not accept the invitation of TV channels with their main opponent to sit down in a free debate. And I wonder why this offer was made only by MEGA TV channel? why not SKAI channel? TV channels ANT1, Alpha, ZVEZDA; Do they really think that such a confrontation will not look? Why is Macron doing this in France, why is Soltz doing this in Germany, why is he doing this in the UK, in the United States of America, in every major country? As fearful as Mr. Mitsotakis may be, he must understand one thing. No one was glorified secretly. And we will pull it out of the shell, open it, until May 21. Don `t doubt”.

Al. Tsipras blamed the government for its strategy of “speculating on the wealth of the middle class” and warned that its policies would lead to an “auction tsunami” in the coming months.

He even referred to the case of the former New Democracy MP in Greven, Andreas Patsis, and noted: “The only thing the government has done in the last four years is that your prefecture has become known to the New Democracy MP, Mr. Patsis. Patsis that what he did was something he knew well, and they knew it when they put him to the vote. That is, “crow”, as they say in common parlance. Track borrowers to take their property, earn as much as possible by taking someone else’s property.

But today from here I want to be fair to Mr. Patsis and express my solidarity with Mr. Patsis. Because they pretend they don’t know him. Didn’t they know it when they put it on their ballots? And call a spade a spade. How is Mr. Mitsotakis himself different from what Mr. Patsis did, who put him on his ballots?

The truth is that comparing the two is essentially impossible. Because Mr. Patsis looks like a convenience store owner. Mr. Mitsotakis, with what he’s done, giving away 700,000 properties, 40 billion in property, to start a tsunami of auctions in the coming months, it’s like having a huge mall next to a convenience store.

Because that’s their strategy. That did not happen. Their strategy is to profit from the wealth of the middle class. This is their strategy.”

The President of SYRIZA-PS spoke about Mitsotakis S.A. and mentioned that Fofi Gennimata was the first to use the term “Maxima S.A.” noting “how right she was”.

Mr. Tsipras called for a big, decisive and clean victory for SYRIZA-PS on the evening of 21 May, saying that there would be two losers. Mr. Mitsotakis and the Polls.

“This Saturday meeting in Greven means everything is changing and we will surprise them on May 21st. The fact that on May 21 we will say “goodbye”, what I have seen in the last days, is a message for change.

Wherever I am, people feel that it doesn’t go any further. It’s no longer about injustice, it’s no longer about inequality, it’s no longer about what we see every day that suffocates us.”

Mr. Tsipras also addressed the voters of the parties, including New Democracy, saying: “They are not responsible for the fact that the leadership of their party chose Mr. Pacis. They are not responsible for the fact that Mr. Mitsotakis has led the New Democracy to the worst right of post-colonialism, surveillance and eavesdropping, direct appointments, misrepresentation and speculation.

I want you to talk to them and tell them that there are more things that unite us than what separates us.”

As for the Grevena prefecture, he said it was unfair, a prefecture that tends to disappear from the map, a prefecture that is getting old.

He accused the government of doing nothing for the Grevena prefecture and said that unemployment has reached 35%, one in two residents is retired and the prefecture’s population has fallen by 16% in the latest census.

He pledged to support measures for farmers and pastoralists and reiterated that if he became Prime Minister he would abolish the minimum basis for university admissions, noting that with its introduction Grevena had 450 fewer students.

Mr. Tsipras walked around the central square of Grevena, talked to the citizens who were there and took pictures with small children.

Source: RES-IPE