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The office of Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has released an old video of New Democracy Vice President Adonis Georgiadis, in which the former far-right LAOS party MP accused then Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis of selling off the Greek province of Macedonia, by agreeing to a composite name for FYROM.
Georgiadis stopped just short of calling the then PM a traitor, but that was clear implication of his words.
In a statement issued today, the prime minister’s press office says the following:
“Do New Democracy and Mr. Mitsotakis agree or disagree with what the current vice-president of the main opposition party was saying [back then] when, in response to the Karamanlis government’s adoption of the position in favour of accepting a composite name, he was arguing that “Karamanlis sold off Macedonia”?
“It is by now obvious to everyone who is the President, the Leader, and why New Democracy marshals all of the [now defunct] LAOS party’s arguments on the [FYROM] naming issue,” the statement, accompanied by the video from Georgiadis books telemarketing television show, read.
In the video, Georgiadis launches an unprecedented attack on the sitting PM.
“This [is an] incredible about-face by the Macedonian – would that he were – prime minister, Kostas Karamanlis, who is entering history as the prime minister who sold off Macedonia. Every well-meaning citizen has understood, I think, that New Democracy has changed its position from the national line of the Council of Political Leaders in 1992,” Georgiadis shouted in the video.
“As you can understand, Kostas Karamanlis and Dora Bakoyannis tried to fool the Greek people and their voters. This is a filthy act by New Democracy, which in my opinion is even worse than the very act of retreat,” Georgiadis declared.
