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The government is conducting a communicative management of the deprivation of responsibilities due to polarization in the face of the Polytechnic, with Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis returning to the opposition parties the accusation of choosing a conflict and the government spokesman Stelios Petsas insisting that the prohibition is prohibitive. for purely health reasons under the coronavirus lockdown.
It is recalled that in a previous statement, Mr. Mitsotakis called on the political leaders to symbolically leave a flower at the Polytechnic, insisting, among other things, that this year was not celebrated on October 28 or March 25.
The same argument was used by government spokesman Stelios Petsas, referring to Holy Week, but when asked how a state celebration compares with the right of citizens, parties and organizations to demonstrate, he threw the ball to the podium, saying that the procedure followed is not unconstitutional. and that the enemy is the concentrations that contribute to the spread of the coronavirus.
“Meetings or marches are not allowed during the general confinement. They would give the wrong message and cause a break in the solidarity that is necessary to comply with the measures, so that we can leave the confinement as planned,” said Mr. Petsas, adding: “No one has the right to call the citizenry in disobedience against the measures to protect public health. And no one can, on the one hand, ask for” quarantine “and, on the other, cover the reactionaries who deny the situation without precedents in which we live. In a process, the only one that will celebrate is the coronavirus. “
The government spokesman even launched an attack on the Union of Judges and Prosecutors, which yesterday described as unconstitutional the universal ban on rallies throughout the country, in order to prevent the conduct of the Polytechnic. He commented that the Union of Judges and Prosecutors is a union body, so it has no right or reason to express an opinion. “It does not have any role to give opinions, this is not foreseen in its statutes and it is something that goes beyond legality,” said Mr. Petsas. However, he referred to the opposite positions of Venizelos, Alivizatos, Manitakis, Botopoulos, who support the government for the ban. And he especially used Alivizatou’s argument, that the ban on demonstrations is provided by the March PNP, which had not been denounced as unconstitutional.
However, according to the government, as Mr. Petsas was repeatedly asked to comment on the latest announcement by the Holy Synod that those who sound the alarm for Holy Communion are “neurotic”, the Church has shown responsibility in the crisis of the coronavirus, but the protests are dangerous …
What will happen if the deputies march?
Petsas, along the lines of Mitsotakis, tried to transfer the responsibilities of polarization and political conflict to the opposition parties. He said that the government tried to reach an agreement with the parties through the ministers of State George Gerapetritis and Citizen Protection Michalis Chrysochoidis. He even recalled that during SYRIZA four years ago all meetings in those days in Athens were banned due to Obama’s visit, commenting that: “At that time the government had responsible forces like the ND. “Now irresponsibility is overflowing with the opposition.”
The government spokesman affirmed that there was no polarization plan by the government, but as he said “there is a common sense plan.” He said it was obvious that the protests could not take place in the current circumstances, although on another question he said that the government did not contradict the European Parliament, which called for the use of sanitary measures as a pretext for the abolition of democratic rights. However, according to Mr. Petsas, the Polytechnic course is an “ideological anchor” for some.
“ELAS will implement its business plan,” the government spokesman said cryptically when asked whether MPs who marched despite the ban would be arrested.
What will SYRIZA and KKE do? What did Gennimata say to Mitsotakis?
It is recalled that yesterday the government managed … to reach an agreement between SYRIZA, KKE and MeRA25, which issued a joint statement by the Polytechnic and against government authoritarianism, at the initiative of the KKE. Beyond that, however, SYRIZA’s initial decision not to stage a march, but to proceed with a party delegation on a symbolic visit to the EAT ESA.
The official opposition leader, after yesterday’s telephone contacts with the general secretary of the KKE, Dimitris Koutsoumbas and the leader of MeRA 25, Giannis Varoufakis, had a telephone conversation today with the president of KINAL, Fofi Gennimata and the president of Ellinikos Vlylos,. During the talks, Tsipras expressed concern about the government’s stance and the growing effort to polarize the political climate, culminating in the unconstitutional provision banning rallies by decision of the EL.AS leader, a concern that was shared by both. political leaders. He stressed to his interlocutors that given the outbreak of the pandemic, the established course of the Polytechnic cannot be carried out, but symbolic initiatives for the anniversary can and should be carried out, with responsibility for compliance with protection measures . The initial ban on Mr. Mitsotakis responds only to plans of artificial exacerbation, polarization and disorientation of more serious government responsibilities due to the evolution of the pandemic, Tsipras said.
SYRIZA did not make caustic comments on the prime minister’s intervention, stating in a statement: “Mr. Mitsotakis in a crescent of hypocrisy and after he suspended the Constitution by banning demonstrations across the country and threatened parties and organizations with arrests if they symbolically honor his memory. Polytechnic, now he speaks against the division. The division he created. And once again he publicly announces the attitude and position of the President of the Republic, without realizing that the institution of the Head of State is not accessory to the role of government.
However, his proposal for the participation of the six political leaders together with the President of the Republic contradicts the same order of public concentrations of more than 4 people, which was announced by his government. Mr. Mitsotakis’s self-righteousness is now beyond imagination. “
The KKE, for its part, according to the information, insists on carrying out a march through the Polytechnic, but with protection measures and distances such as May Day. The unions, however, will also take action, recommending vulnerable groups to stay home and the youngest to go down in the organized process and with strict compliance with the measures.
Perissos values that the prohibition of the march cannot be approved and must be canceled in practice. “There is no process by delegation,” they characteristically say.
On the contrary, KINAL, which yesterday refused to co-sign the joint communiqué with the left-wing parties, insists for its part on the celebration by delegation. Mr. Mitsotakis contacted KINAL President Fofi Gennimata, who expressed his disagreement with ELAS’s decision to ban the rallies. “The decision is authoritative,” Gennimata told the prime minister. KINAL’s position, however, on the course itself is clear. “We are not putting the lives of citizens at risk,” said Charilaou Trikoupi, reaffirming that a delegation from KINAL will lay a wreath at the Polytechnic.
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