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Alexis Tsipras launched a fierce attack on Kyriakos Mitsotakis, responding to the prime minister’s barbs about the overhaul of the Penal Code passed under the SYRIZA government.

The ELAS leader accused the prime minister of trying to create a negative impression of him, leaving “mud and insinuations” without presenting any specific evidence. He also called on him to name those who, as Mitsotakis suggests, were behind the reform, if he believes there were ulterior motives.

Defending the process of reforming the Penal Code, Tsipras argued that the legislation was not drafted by the government but by a large law-drafting committee made up of distinguished legal scholars. He said the preparatory work had begun in 2010, and the final text was handed to the government and passed in June 2019 with the support of other parties and lawmakers.

At the same time, the former prime minister criticized the New Democracy government for the amendments it made to the Penal Code in November 2019, claiming their goal was to secure “criminal immunity for bankers.”

“So let Mr. Mitsotakis speak now with names and addresses. Otherwise, let him stop slinging mud and slandering. Enough is enough,” he concluded in his post.

Tsipras’s full post

“Mr. Mitsotakis wondered today why I called him the high priest of corruption.

All he has to do is watch again the interviews of his nephew, Mr. Dimitriadis, who, until he took the bullet for him, was the boss of the Prime Ministers Office.

Once again, however, he tried to leave mud and insinuations about me.

This time on the occasion of a major reform, the complete overhaul of the Penal Code for the first time in the country since 1950.

So, to put an end to this joke, let me be clear:

A complete reform of the Penal Code, as is customary, is not drafted by the government but by a large law-drafting committee.

And that is what happened, with the creation of a committee made up of the most brilliant legal scholars in our country.

They drafted the code after many years of preparatory work that had begun in 2010.

They handed their work to us, and we passed it together with other parties and lawmakers in June 2019.

So if he believes that all these people were paying back favors, along with me, he is not insulting me but the country’s legal community.

So instead of mud, he should speak with evidence.

Names and addresses.

As I did when he himself rushed in November 2019 to amend the new code to give criminal immunity to bankers.

Those favors had a first and last name.

But whose favors did I pay back?

So let Mr. Mitsotakis speak now with names and addresses.

Otherwise, let him stop slinging mud and slandering.

Enough is enough.”