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A government minister did not rule out that Greeks will keep needing to send sms to leave their homes but not the tourists after May 15, when the country will officially open its gates to international holidaymakers.

Speaking to ANT1 TV, Development Minister Adonis Georgiadis lef topen the possibility that tourists will go out sms-free but not the locals.

he said that “sms to 13033 will be in force until May 15, when tourism opens. It has not been decided yet what will happen after May 15.

To the journalist’s question whether “we will send a message to go to a restaurant when it will not be needed for tourists,” the Minister responded “we will see this after May 15.”

Addressing those criticizing such a possibility, Georgiadis said “Don’t they [critics] want us to have tourists in Greece?” and described them as “populists.”

He claimed that the tourists who will come to Greece will be vaccinated -something which is not true as Greece will also allowed non-vaccinated holiday-makers provided they have a negative PCR test.

Georgiadis is not the only ruling party member in the conservative, neo-liberal Greek government who believes that those who bring money must have more privileges than the locals who in fact also pay their salaries to listen to such cynical and immoral crap.

Two week ago, New Democracy MP, Sofia Voultepsi, said that Greek must do sacrifices because it is the tourists who bring the money.

A lawmaker from conservative ruling party New Democracy has proposed that the Greek Orthodox Church should make the leftist rapper murdered by Golden Dawn, Pavlos Fyssas, a saint.

MP and former ND spokeswoman Sofia Voultepsi said the Church should make Pavlos Fyssas a saint because “his sacrifice” freed Greece from Golden Dawn.

Speaking at a panel discussion at Kontra Channel TV on Thursday night, Voultepsi said “I believe that Fyssas should be sanctified by the church, because with his sacrifice we managed to put an end to this thing. Do not talk to me about the Golden Dawn.”

Apart from the fact that Pavlos Fyssas was not “sacrificed” but murdered in cold-blood, his death only kicked ND out of its lethargy and tolerance and helped the conviction of the GD.

The supporters and the voters of the neo-nazi party are still out there.

Furthermore, the ND politician seems to be one of the few Greeks who believe that the Golden Dawn is finished – Worth noting that the court has not forbidden the party, it convicted only part of 7 of former MPs and some dozens of members.

According to a poll conducted by Prorata on behalf of newspaper efsyn, 76% of Greeks do not believe that fascism in Greece has been defeated for good.

Just 5% believe that “the fascist threat that existed in the past does not exist anymore.”

If SYRIZA wins the elections and forms a government on Monday Greeks will run will run out of toilet paper. This is what ND-candidate Sofia Voultepsi implied just 48 hours before the elections.

“bank run”  vs “toilet paper run”?

Speaking to Mega TV on Friday morning, former government spokeswoman Sofia Voultepsi claimed:

“People believe that bankruptcy is what we experience now. Bankruptcy is when imports, fuel, raw materials and medicines are being immediately stopped.  This is something we have seen in Cyprus,  in Venezuela, in Argentina.”

When one of the news magazine anchors intervened and commented that “what you say sounds as if we will not have toilet paper,” Voultepsi replied:

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It’s a fact Greek style: “The internet will never replace the newspapers!” Government spokeswoman Sofia Voultepsi, a …journalist, discovered the future of information and how it will be spread around the world. That is the Greek world of the Greek government, apparently, because the rest of the world is up to believe otherwise.

Speaking at the General Assembly of the Union District Newspaper Owners, Nea Dimokratia MP Voultepsi lashed out against the internet claiming that Speaking at the General Assembly of the Union District Newspaper Owners, Nea Dimokratia MP Voultepsi lashed out against the internet claiming that “whatever is printed, is being checked, double-checked and it has consequences. On internet, the most nonexistent fact, the most fragmentary report can be reproduced in a heartbeat and everybody thins that it is a fact.”

…obviously and deliberately forgetting not only case of yellow press reports but also mainstream daily TO VIMA “reporting” in June 2009 of a meeting between then prime ministers of Greece and Turkey, Karamanlis and Erdogan. A report that described in detail the agenda of the two PMs, “the cold atmosphere” and “the tough negotiations”. Too bad that Turkish PM never arrived in Athens having to cancel his visit due to health problems.

Wearing red plastic gloves – the trade mark of cleaning ladies – Charis Alexiou went on stage on Monday evening on Syntagma Square right opposite from the Greek Parliament. The famous singer had agreed to give concert in solidarity with the 595 cleaners who had been laid-off by the Greek Finance Ministry.

“We will not sing songs of struggle. Tonight is a night of joy for these ladies. We are all cleaners,” Alexiou told hundreds of people who had flocked to Syntagma square. Among them, also other groups of state employees who have been laid-off like school guards, teachers, fired employees of former state tv ERT.

The 595 cleaners were laid-off ten months ago. They have been holding protests outside the Finance Ministry for several weeks. An Athens court order the re-hiring of the cleaners, but the FinMin has appealed the court decision.

When asked to comment on the issue of the laid-off cleaners, government spokesman Sofia Voultepsi told private Mega TV “We cannot deal with the cleaners every day”.

Following the cabinet reshuffle the new government's spokesperson's first job is spin her own words and explain how things have changed from when she called Gkikas Hardouvelis, the new Finance Minister a 'masochist' and 'willing slave' of the country's lenders and an apologist for their 'compulsive disorders'.