Androulakis to gov’t: You are bogus modernizers

"We will not give a vote of confidence to the government…we will be the reliable opposition the people need," socialist leader Nikos Androulakis said Saturday during the debate on the government's policy statement.

Androulakis' PASOK party came third in the June 25 election, with 11.84% of the vote, electing 32 MPs in the 300-member Greek Parliament.

Androulakis said that Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis was merely abusing words when he was referring to modernizing the state, adding that the prime minister's vision was a deeply old-time one. The government cannot call itself a modernizing agent when the country has the fourth highest taxes in the European Union as a percentage of GDP, while having the third lowest purchasing power parity.

Androulakis also accused Mitsotakis of taking advantage of the information the National Intelligence Agency gathered from...