A former top ruling party official accused Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis of arrogance and corruption, revealing the yawning gap between the two politicians.
Earlier in the day, Mitsotakis said Antonis Samaras, himself a former premier who was expelled over his repeated and vocal criticism of the government’s foreign policy, should consider his legacy and stop harming the party.
“It is not for the Mitsotakis family to decide who has the know-how to destroy the party [New Democracy], but the people of the party,” Samaras said in an on-camera statement on Saturday.
“Let him worry about his own legacy. He will go down in history as the prime minister of inflation, corruption, arrogance, one-bid tenders, the impoverishment of rural Greece, the woke agenda, taxes, the hounding of the middle class, the impoverishment of farmers, livestock breeders and fishermen, a foreign policy of appeasement and kowtowing, the tens of thousands of illegal immigrants who secured asylum, and of course the OPEKEPE [farm subsidy scandal], Tempe [train crash] and the wiretapping scandal,” he said.
A new response came swiftly from Mitsotakis, who reminded Samaras that, under his leadership, New Democracy’s percentage dropped to 18.8% in the May 2012 general elections. “Nice performance,” he said.
