Under Syriza, Knossos had gone to the Tompson audit while under Mitsotakis it went to UNESCO, the environment and energy minister said Stavros Papastavrou in response to the chairman of the SYRIZA-PS Socrates Famellos.
“You accuse us of protecting public property” when the SYRIZA Government minister Euclid Tsakalotos had taken a decision to transfer to the Yperti Fund10.119 state properties, of which 2,330 were monuments and archaeological sites, Papastavrou said, calling it a “disgrace of shame.
“Let me tell you some of these monuments. The Knososos. The royal tombs of Vergina. The tomb of Leonidas. The Akrotiri of Santorini. The archaeological site of Elefsina. All these monuments. The protectors of public property. All these monuments were given to the Superfund. And only when the archaeologists reacted did they give them back. […] Under SYRIZA, Knossos went under the control of Thomsen. And under Mitsotakis it has gone to UNESCO. And it has been declared a monument of World Cultural Heritage,” Papastavrou stressed.
In response to Mr. Famellos’s Famellos’s complaints about the State of Law, Papastavrou said: “Seriously, are you talking to me about the rule of law, about the instrumentalization of Justice against political opponents, about planning by the Maximou against opponents, are you talking to me? Of the five years you took from my life, how many were accidental? The judicial assistance that was dropped from the documentation and suddenly found, was it accidental? Disrespectfully, gentlemen of the Syriza opposition. Disgraceful. That’s all I have to say.”
On energy, Papastavrou said that in 2019, SYRIZA had the most accurate wholesale electricity price in Europe. Europe had 45-46 and you had 63. As we speak today, in 2026, Europe’s average is 100 and we are 95. 46-63, that’s 40% above, 65% above Germany, we are 100-94 below average and we are competing with Germany. You say, the wholesale okay. In wholesale you are right. Let’s say you’re right. When the others had 45, we were 63- 50% up. What to do. To the consumer, what happens? On the consumer, SYRIZA was 19% below average. The New Democracy in short, 21% below average. And at the same time, remember that our country, under SYRIZA, had 6.3 gigawatts of renewables. 6,3. And now we have 18. And of those 18, 9.2 of those 18 are in DEDDIE. Which means in medium and low voltage. Which means 80 to 90 thousand small to medium producers. This is energy democracy, the Environment and Energy Minister said.
He noted that in 12 months, from last year to now, 3 gigawatts of renewable sources have been added. “In one year, the 50% that SYRIZA had put in,” he said.
