Adonis Georgiades has deconstructed Alexis Tsipras’s video on banks with arguments that give the former prime minister a hard time.
Alexis Tsipras made a video talking about how banks are speculating and all that. In fact, such was his audacity that he blamed the Kyriakos Mitsotakis government for laws and regulations passed when he was in power!
This is what Adonis Georgiades saw and could not resist commenting on the new post by the former prime minister, who is again trying to distort the truth. His old art sieve.
Adonis’ response
According to the health minister, Alexis Tsipras is talking about the speculative funds of banks, only forgetting that the law on funds was brought and passed by the government of Alexis Tsipras.
As he said “He’s talking about the speculative funds. Whose law did they come in and take people’s loans and homes? Do you know; who was the prime minister who brought in the funds; do you know his name? Alexis Tsipras. You are Tsipras and you are talking in the video about speculative funds and you think the Greek people are amnesiac and don’t remember that the law for these funds is the law of Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras with Euclid Tsakalotos as Finance Minister?”
We should say here that the current government of Kyriakos Mitsotakis has not only put limits on the funds but has introduced an out-of-court mechanism and some time ago introduced additional regulations for the effective protection of first homes. That is, what the supposedly leftist Alexis Tsipras had not done.
Andonis Georgiades also reminded that the law on deferred tax for banks was passed by Alexis Tsipras: “So Alexis Tsipras is telling us that the banks are exploiting a law brought by Alexis Tsipras and he is making a video?”
Limit on abusive charges
The health minister also recalled that under Alexis Tsipras there was no regulation on abusive charges by banks, while today the government has passed a strict framework that puts limits on charges while banning charges for a number of transactions.
As he continued “Are banks’ abusive charges today higher or lower under Tsipras? Today bank charges are 1/3 of what they were under Tsipras.”
And he concluded about Alexis Tsipras: “Does he think we’re dumb? This man, if there is one thing that characterizes him, it is audacity.”
Costas Stoupas’ response
The issue of banks is certainly not the field of debate that favors Alexis Tsipras, Costas Stoupas also observes, deconstructing the former prime minister with additional arguments.
As he writes, banks were closed under Alexis Tsipras because of low depositor confidence. Not to mention that not long ago he said he had to… close the banks himself since he took over the leadership of the country.
And Costas Stoupas concludes that the banks are the tip of the iceberg of Alexis Tsipras’s failed government tenure and it is best to avoid criticism of them.
In any case, Alexis Tsipras does indeed have a lot of nerve talking about the banks after all this and criticizing a government that clearly did much better than he did. But unfortunately he is the old Tsipras we all know.
Here is the relevant post and interview with Adonis Georgiades:
