In a particularly emphatic way, Adonis Georgiades, who attempted to set a tone of optimism and convergence during his in the Parliamentary Group of the Southwestern Democratic Party.
The minister argued that the party organs on Kyriakos Mitsotakis meet more often than any other period he can remember, while he also cited the polls, saying that the data for the ND party is “extremely good”.
“Demoscopically we can get 41%, don’t let the misery of the opposition and the media drag us down,” he said, adding that there are “many who want to bring down or shorten” the government. At the same time, he argued that the most important reforms of the state were made during Mitsotakis’ second term in government.
Mr. Georgiades also disagreed with the proposal for a constitutional incompatibility between MPs and ministers, assuming that this would destabilize the functioning of the government. “The prime minister would change every six months, because the parliament would have the upper hand,” he said.
He concluded by taking swipes at the stance of some government officials in the public sphere, separating, he said, ministers “into those who don’t speak at all, those who speak about everything and those who speak with a predetermined agenda.” “Because I won’t be on the candidate list, because I was planting, I’m more comfortable speaking: not everyone sweats the jersey. Some will even go to the moon to keep quiet. That’s not getting us anywhere. Are we a team? If we’re a team, we’ll all sweat the jersey,” he concluded.
