Alexis Tsipras who he said “has changed in wrapping, not in thinking”, was quoted on Friday by Stavros Papastavrou.
As he told Action24 about the former prime minister, to “change someone, he must recognize his mistakes and apologize for them. Mr Tsipras criminalised political life. But if you don’t do the self-criticism, if you don’t say what you did right and what you think you didn’t do right, so you don’t do it again, then I don’t see any change. I see a change in the wrapping, I see a change in the way, I don’t see a change in the thinking, I don’t see a change in the substance.”
Then asked about the possibility of early elections Papastavrou stressed that “we are living in a period of unprecedented geopolitical turmoil: Along with economic stability, we need to maintain political stability. Elections in a year, reforms every day, more projects every day, so that overall progress is individual progress for each of us.”
With regard to the crisis due to the war in the Middle East, the Minister of Environment and Energy stressed that “the government was already one of the first countries which took measures to support the citizens. One thing is certain. As long as the crisis continues and to the extent that it affects society, the Prime Minister and the government have shown in recent years that they leave no one behind.”
As he said the extent andintensity of the crisis affects all countries “but our country, which has a very high percentage of renewable energy, has a mound. It has a safety net. We saw that in April, while we expected there to be a de-escalation in the crisis in the Middle East there was again a tension. And yet despite this, the electricity prices announced for May did not increase, but remained stable.”
Asked about the bill passed in Parliament yesterday, the Environment Minister said that our country is third in the world in electricity generated from the sun and ninth from wind, but “we need to address the issue of storage. We are now running into the issue of storage, which is important for the stability of the system.”
On the agreements announced in recent days, the Minister said: “In order to make the infrastructure, to support theVertical Corridor, which puts our country in a leading position in the new energy architecture, there need to be long-term agreements and that is why the agreements announced with Bosnia and Herzegovina and Albania are a very positive development. It paves the way for these contracts to be in place so that the infrastructure can be put in place. Our country is an energy champion in Southeastern Europe”
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