Athens, 15 May 2024 (MIA) — This is the Prespa Agreement. If the Greek government were credible, national, patriotic, social, and of the people, they would have done this, said the right-nationalist party Greek Solution leader Kyriakos Velopoulos in the Hellenic Parliament on Tuesday and tore up a printout of the Prespa Agreement, MIA's Athens correspondent reports.

During the parliamentary session discussing a law proposed by the Ministry of Culture, which was completely unrelated to Greek foreign policy, Velopoulos addressed so-called national issues.

"There is neither north nor south Macedonia, Macedonia is one and it is Greece. You said so at the protests. Now you call it North Macedonia. Our problem is not the Skopje president. The problem is the way they teach their history, the logic of the people voting. Who for? The Comitadji. VMRO is the worst thing a nation could elect. A fascist and Nazi party, a regular Nazi party," Velopoulos said.

Right afterward, he lifted the printout of the Prespa Agreement, saying that if the government could not do it, they would do it instead — and ripped up the sheet of paper.

He sharply criticized the Greek government, saying the three memoranda to the Prespa Agreement needed to be put to a ratificiation vote in the Hellenic Parliament for all parties to vote against.

"Put the memoranda of cooperation with Skopje to a vote and we will all vote against. Because they violated the Agreement, not us," Velopoulos said.

Greek Solution ranked sixth in last year's elections, winning 13 parliamentary seats with 4.44 percent of the votes.

According to the latest public opinion polls, the party's ratings have risen up to seven percent, moving the party closer to the fourth or fifth place, MIA's correspondent writes. mr/