Pierrakakis for Tsipras: If the party is called ELAS, then its youth will be called EPON? (video)

Kyriakos Pierrakakis, the Minister of National Economy and Finance, has made references to Alexis Tsipras’ new party, claiming that he has not heard anything really new from the former prime minister.

In an interview with SKAI TV station, the minister noted that “when you want to stage a new play, it is not enough to change the lighting and music. You have to change the script as well”. He commented that what was presented by the former prime minister was “a series of quotes one after another” and “a repetition of many things that had been said before.”

Pierrakakis also referred with humour to the name of the new party “Hellenic Leftist Coalition” (ELAS), stressing: “The nicest thing someone told me is that if the party is called ELAS, then its youth will be called EPON.” He added that “these civil war associations are not very pleasant. This is 2026, there is no need. Every time the country has been divided, it has paid for it with blood. Literally in the past, figuratively afterwards.”

According to the minister, Tsipras’ speech was more reminiscent of the past than a new political proposal. “I did not hear a speech of his yesterday. I heard from the lips of Alexis Tsipras rhetoric, politics and logic of the day before yesterday. And that, in my opinion, does not belong in 2026,” he noted.

Mr. Pierrakakis referred specifically to one of the commitments presented by Alexis Tsipras, that of “digital democracy and sovereignty with national technological infrastructure and sovereignty clauses”, saying that it was not understood either by him or by his ministry officials. “I have not understood what it is. I even asked my team in the ministry, a dozen or so people who have been involved in digital, and no one understood,” he claimed. Although, he clarified that he does not underestimate any policy initiative and expects to hear specific proposals. “In no way do I underestimate any political proposal. I look forward with great interest to hearing the proposals. But I am waiting to hear the substance, what we have to say,” he stressed.