His choice of the Presidency of the Republic was addressed by the government representative who also referred to the PASOK attitude. Speaking in the main newscast of ANT1 and referring to the choice of Kostas Tasoulas for the presidential election, Paul Marinakis stated that, based on the international circumstances, but also the situation that exists in our country in 2025, he was judged by the Prime Minister, that it is necessary for the office of President of the Republic to be elected by the citizens for 25-26 consecutive years, with prestige and uniting characteristics. CORVERSE “You will allow me to say that all political parties have united faces. These concepts do not belong, of unity, of prestige, monopolisticly in a political area and the centre left and centre and centre right, he stressed. Marinakis noted that Andreas Papandreou in 1985, Constantine Mitsotakis in 1990 and George Papandreou in 2010 with the re-election of Mr. Papoulias, proposed a person from their own political area and stressed that choices should be judged on the basis of the characteristics of persons. “We are talking about the Speaker of the House, who was elected by a large majority in 2019 and much more important to me, is his re-election in 2023 in two procedures, May and June on the basis of which Members judged, 270 and 249 in the second and third proceedings, his term as Speaker of the House. He is a person who has never given any right to question his authority, his credibility, the breadth of his knowledge, his unifying characteristics,” he added. CORVERSE “PASOK’s announcement is “small party”” In response to a similar question and in relation to the opposition’s reaction the government representative described PASOK’s announcement as “small”. “It is an announcement of a ‘small’ party, not of a party that aspires to claim the vote of citizens for something more, a ‘warranting party’. What does Mr. Tasoulas have to do with his course, his path, his presence as Speaker of the House, his whole image, his respect for his political opponents with the Accra Right? On the day that an amendment was adopted to finance the Spartans …’, he added. “SYRIZA used institution to drop government” Paul Marinakis also referred to Syriza: “He said we are playing with the institutions, while he used the institution of the President of the Republic to cast a government, along with the votes of the Golden Dawn. And they blame the party, the Government, for voting for a number of amendments that Justice made use of, because Justice decided not to be in the House far-right figures, as criminal organizations. Because that’s the crucial thing, the action or the criminal thing. This was done with a series of initiatives by the Prime Minister and the Government. I think we should put the Achra sign on. Right, to persons who have a long journey, only to throw toxic elements into political confrontation, does not give anything to political confrontation.” Marinakis said that “not at all” is the answer to the question why PASOK falls in the polls and called on the main opposition party to reconsider its stance, to evaluate the person, to think that they do not belong monopolisticly in their own political space unifying persons. “It has its own political space, but it also has our political space. There are, you know, New Democrats and Central and Central Right and Central Left, who have authority, united elements. Because, all right, PASOK voting for a politician coming from its own political area, was a consensus on the safe side. The substantial, sincere willingness to consent is judged when you evaluate a political opponent, who is President of the House who has voted for him so many times, I say again, three times…,” he added. Asked whether it would be preferable for the President of the Republic to be elected by180 votes or 200 votes, Paul Marinakis said that the majority is important, but more important is the consensual term. “Mr. Tasoulas will be judged more on how consensual and united President of the Republic he is. Like Mr. Tasoulas, other Speakers of the House, I refer to Mrs. Constantopoulou in 2015, were voted by a large majority. Their presence in this particular tomb was not so consensual. So, yes, the majority, important the election, are again calling on the other parties, to see behind the signs, behind the divisions of previous decades and to evaluate the person and the president of the House. Because he is not a Member who said the opposition, he is the Speaker of the House, who has been voted over and over again and voted in favour of Mr Tashoula,” he said. “Why has Mrs Sakellaropoulou not been proposed again” For the reasons Mrs. Sakellaropoulou was not proposed again and what happened with her meeting with Mr. Mitsotakis today, Mr. Marinakis said that after contacting the Prime Minister and the President of the Republic they decided that it would be better to meet on a day that was not marked by this announcement. “Since there was a communication in a very good climate. I want to make three things clear. One: Ms. Sakellaropoulou was an excellent PtD, honored the institution. The second thing I’m saying is that a person with political characteristics was chosen because the 2020 cheques were other, but the 2025 cheques. Let one see what has happened to the world, not only in Greece these five years. And the third thing I want to say is that as we said in the announcement, as the Prime Minister said in his message, he intends to propose a constitutional review, the MTF, to have a single term of six years,” he noted. Regarding this proposal by the ND he said it would be a term to avoid the anxiety, anxiety, debate, not from the person themselves, from public opinion, of re-election. “It is a very honorable office, the top office, with specific characteristics, which we believe a term is sufficient, is capable. It would be a little contradictory, I would say hypocritical, while you have proposed re-election of a person, to come back a few months later, and say “I want a term.” So all this makes up this decision. Which in no way is negative, dismissive, for an excellent President such as Mrs Sakellaropoulou,” he noted. On the presidency of the House and whether it will be next President Nikitas Kaklamanis said he knows nothing more. “I don’t think we’re going to be late to know the person of the Speaker of the House,” he noted.
Marinakis for Kostas Tasoula: He has never given the right to question his validity and credibility
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