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President Anastasiadis accused Giorgos Pamporidis of inconsistency, speaking in an interview with “Sigma” yesterday, for the former Minister to respond later, refuting the President's reports. Specifically, the President claimed that if he gave Mr. Pamporidis the portfolio of the Ministry of Energy or Defense, then the former Minister would remain in the Government, with the latter answering that the President himself would try to propose another portfolio.

“I am not going to comment on what Mr. Pamporidis may have said about the party, but I will comment on the Government. “He was a good Minister of Health, decisive in the implementation of my announcements but also in my decision for the GESS”, said Nikos Anastasiadis about his former Minister.

And he continued, saying “I had decided that what the majority wanted, for GESS this should be implemented. I gave the Minister as much support as he needed. “But if the President did not decide to implement the decision and if he did not show the determination that I showed, none of the Ministers could have succeeded.”

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“I believe in Mr. Pamporidis for his actions, for his determination, but many times it is good for modesty to distinguish us all,” he said, adding that another element that wrongs itself, because it shows an inconsistency, is that Mr. Pamporidis could still be a Minister, if I satisfied his request to go as Minister of Trade because he wanted to go there after the end of his first term (Minister of Commerce), or as Minister of Defense “.

“I said that if you want to continue in the Government, you will remain in the position you served with full consistency, because I do not experiment, putting one Minister in another Ministry. He did not accept, as a result of which he is not now in the Government. “Let Mr. Pamporidis not wrong himself”, the President concluded.

The former Minister of Health, George Pamporidis, responded to the President's reports this morning with a written statement, noting that the President's statement did not correspond to the truth and claiming that the President himself tried to offer him a portfolio other than that of Health. before the composition of the new Council of Ministers in February 2018.

This is the statement of George Pamporidis

“I was informed that President Anastasiadis in an interview yesterday on Sigma TV, made the claim that I asked him to assign me another portfolio in order to remain a minister during his second term, even explaining that he refused my request!

I am deeply saddened by this statement by President Anastasiadis which does not correspond to the truth. I want to hope that his memory did not begin to deceive him.

Respecting the institution of the President but also the fact that I worked closely with President Anastasiadis, serving the country and society, I am content at this stage to urge President Anastasiadis to refer to the two close associates who were present, when he tried to propose another portfolio from that of Health in his office, just before announcing the composition of the new Council of Ministers in February 2018. I hope that when he speaks to them he will remember exactly what was said. I hope I do not have to come back.

The institution of the President of the Republic is the basis of the regime and is sacred. We all have a responsibility to protect him and not to degrade him. “As far as I am concerned, I have done this and I intend to continue to do that.”

Source: www.philenews.com

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