The European Union no longer moves European citizens who no longer decide based on European criteria, but national ones, noted Prime Minister Ant. Samaras during his speech at the presentation event of “Estias” director Manolis Kottakis’ book “The Secret Files of Karamanli” at the war museum.
Ant. Samaras initially spoke about the Islamization of Europe and emphasized that it must decide whether to maintain its values or enter the vortex called political correctness and law.
“Europe will have to decide whether to enter into political isolation or political integration. Secondly, Europe will have to decide whether it will respect its values or remain in the vortex of the destructive agenda called political correctness and extreme right”, said the former first -minister.
“Bringing immigrants and having them have children to become European citizens is not a solution. I consider this to be gross exploitation and instrumentalization,” he noted.
Referring to Kyriakos Mitsotakis, he was particularly insightful. “I don’t know who he’s listening to, but he’s wrong to insist on being wrong,” he said, referring to the same-sex marriage bill.
In particular, he said: “My last public appearance was in Parliament, during the vote on the law on same-sex marriage. I then said: ‘Therefore, the government should be careful: excessive self-confidence can lead it to break with reality…
And society…” So, given that the Prime Minister declared that he did the right thing with this bill, I wonder if he was listening to what our MPs told him a few days ago in Parliament. If he listened to the vote of the Greek people. I don’t know who he’s listening to, but let him understand that he’s wrong to insist on his mistake!”
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At the same time, he spoke of a factional and de-ideological mutation, speaking of a shift towards an “imaginary center” at a time when all of Europe is turning to the right.
“How can a center-right faction function without the Right and with a “ghost” center that everyone defines as they want? What social alliances, what productive classes, what groups of workers will we then serve? Based on the society’s recent electoral behavior, what political alliances, if any, will the faction conclude, with whom, and in what ideological direction?” he emphasized.
“Enlargement is one thing, mutation is another”
“ND has always had open doors, but not ideologically protected ones. Expansion is one thing, mutation is another. And it would be good if some people asked themselves if the perception of de-ideologicalization is responsible for this historically negative result of the right-wing bloc.
How can we say that citizens’ problems are color-blind? Same-sex marriage is good for the left, but for us it is a problem.
The smallest and scariest ND has ever been created. Is it because the tree was cut down from the roots?’
Mr. Samaras pointed out at the same time that in the European elections, New Democracy received the worst percentage of votes in an election since post-colonization.
“After the worst electoral result, in terms of number of votes, in the history of the faction, references to “de-ideologization”, and comparisons with other, completely different times, show an inability to understand the criticality of the circumstances and are, to say the least , unhappy.
Did the government think that the infamous “41%” was the result of the fear caused in the Greek people by the possibility of SYRIZA’s return, when opinion polls showed it to be very high in the first elections of 2023? The polls fell, of course… But when SYRIZA collapsed in the elections and this fear disappeared, just a month later, in the second elections, we managed to get 41% again, but we lost 300,000 people who, since then, have refused to vote for us again…
Is it understood that because after last year’s elections we adopted SYRIZA’s positions on a number of issues, the anti-SYRIZA front that we built from the 2012-2014 coalition government was dissolved?
And, in fact, SYRIZA, which became six parts, and is more reminiscent of a Dolphinarium than a party. A deplorable left, which only speaks sensational nonsense, a politically disorganized left, without an ideogram and given only to the extreme of right-wingism”, she observed.