“Cardio” to PASOK and Syriazas, Minister of Justice Giorgos Florides has unleashed.
Florides’ statement came at the close of the debate on the timetable for the Constitutional Review.
Referring to Nikos Androulakis, he said he was “trying to cancel the process” and “refusing to serve” the Constitutional Review. “You agree with provisions, but you don’t vote for them. Do you make sense of what you say?”, was the question he posed to the PASOK MPs.
He even recalled what PASOK had done in the 2001 Constitutional Review when the opposition party then had Evangelos Venizelos as rapporteur: “If you have any connection with that PASOK, you should have followed that parliamentary behaviour in voting 83 of the 89 provisions in the proposing parliament. You respect institutional memory, as long as you respect your own political history…”, he said, while commenting that “anyone who abstains will see the needle move, but downwards”.
Referring to Syriza, he called it a political and parliamentary “drama” and spoke of the “climax of the tragedy of this formation that once ruled the country.”
“We saw a request to the coming Second Coming Alexis Tsipras to receive them into his kingdom and he did not bat an eyelid. SYRIZA does not submit proposals to the Constitutional Review, as if they submit proposals and the real leader does not approve them, the case ends up as a farce,” the Justice Minister said.
