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Hours aft elder New Democracy lawmaker Dora Bakoyannis called for the resignation of Deputy Agriculture Minister Makarios Lazaridis to “facilitate the premier curate and his party,” the main absorption PASOK connected Saturday sharply criticized Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis for keeping him successful the cabinet.
“The premier minister’s insistence connected keeping Mr Lazaridis successful the furniture is inexplicable, particularly arsenic adjacent lawmakers from New Democracy are taking wide distances from him,” PASOK said successful a statement.
“How overmuch longer will Mr Mitsotakis support his idiosyncratic patronage?” the enactment added.
Lazaridis, who was appointed successful a constricted authorities reshuffle earlier this month, has faced disapproval implicit a grade helium submitted successful 2007 to service arsenic an adept idiosyncratic successful the bureau of the precocious acquisition curate Marietta Giannakou.
He has refused to resign, saying that if helium “should person been appointed arsenic a special subordinate alternatively than a special adviser, this happened without immoderate involution oregon prime connected my part.”
He has besides offered to instrumentality immoderate salaries helium improperly received, with involvement – a statement PASOK connected Saturday described arsenic an explicit admittance of guilt.
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