Kyriakos Mitsotakis / Attack on Andreas Papandreou and Alexis Tsipras

With the candy of “populism” and “populist” in the mouth for the great political opponent of his father, Konstantinos Mitsotakis, and his own great opponent, Alexis Tsipras, until the resignation of the former prime minister from the presidency of SYRIZA-PS , appeared o Kyriakos Mitsotakis in an interview with journalists Alastair Campbell, Rory Stewart for the UK podcast «The Rest is Politics».

Kyriakos Mitsotakis, the father of virtual reality and fake newscharacterized him Andrea Papandreou “populist slogan” and the Alexis Tsipras “definition of populist”.

The prime minister was asked to answer “For the Papandreou family and the legacy he left. What kind of politician was Andreas Papandreou, looking back on the past?” and mentioned that he never met him personally, characterizing that period in Greece as very divisive.

«Papandreou was a very charismatic personality. He was a radical populist. You talk a lot about populism, but Papandreou was a populist. He promised heaven and ended up doing the exact opposite. But he was also an intellectual and certainly a very, very capable politician».

Then, in order to attack Alexis Tsipras, he continued by saying “the Greeks were the first to experiment with populism. In fact we brought populists to power in 2015. If you look at the history of Greece in the last decade, we had a deep economic crisis, which broke out in 2009. But the crisis was prolonged without reason because we elected a populist government in 2015, under the left, Alexis Tsipras, who in my opinion is the definition of a populist politician».