“I am very proud to be at the ND congress as one of its two vice-presidents for more than 10 years and as a minister of one of the best governments Greece has ever had,” ND Vice President and Health Minister Adonis Georgiades told the ruling party’s congress.

“You should be very proud to be in this party of Constantine Karamanlis, the party that kept Greece standing,”

“If we had said 10 years ago that the Greek Finance Minister would be voted in as chairman of the Eurogroup, we would have been taken for lunatics. It’s the difference how they see Greece after 7 years of Mitsotakis government,” he said, adding that the dilemma is “Mitsotakis or Greece goes back to decadence.”

“What I admire most about Constantine Karamanlis’ political career is when in the Greek Parliament he stood up and said to Andreas Papandreou ‘we belong to the West’. Then it was a revolutionary act. Constantine Karamanlis founded the party of the Southwest so that we would stay in the West, a great prosperous country,” he stressed.

The Health Minister referred to artificial intelligence and said that in this great change the ND government has brought Greece to the forefront.

“No matter how much we are called conservatives, we remain at the heart of the great changes that are taking Greece into the future,”

“I personally have no objection to being called a conservative. I purposely put on the flag and cross tie. How in this strange age are we going to combine artificial intelligence with the defence of our identity, our tradition, our religion. This party offers both,” he said.

“For Greece to be strong it must have political stability and therefore we must win the 2027 elections. Just as we kept Greece in the euro during the decade of bankruptcy with the Samaras-Venizelos government, we want Greece to continue to be a role model with Kyriakos Mitsotakis. We need everyone to come back to this great party,” Georgiades added.

As for the opposition, he said it was submitting no proposals but only misery and toxicity.

“Don’t be afraid, don’t be afraid of them, don’t give in to bullying. I took out the Androulakis issue. We will never bow to bullying. That’s why I did it. Look at the panic PASOK has been in for two days now. They are used to wagging their finger while they have thousands of misdeeds in their backyard,” he added.