“Whoever appointed a mongrel is ten times that!”

Obviously, it’s quite risky to interpret Theodoros Pangalos' statements and that is why we prefer to let our readers try to answer the question whether the vice president undertakes some kind of self-criticism or simply persists in his known views with the statement “Whoever appointed a mongrel is ten times that!” …

So, the new episode in the Pangalos saga was written on Monday night on the television show “New Files” on Skai. And in order to  of the greatness of the new motto, we give it to you verbatim: “I have not done any special favors all these years not only for reasons of virtue but because I believed I didn’t want to exercise this kind of politics… The voting cross is the price of such deeds and whoever appointed a mongrel is ten times that himself”!

He claimed that he did not say all public servants are mongrels, giving as an example the staff of the School of Public Administration, whom he declared to be “brilliant”, but not properly used in his opinion.

He also denied that he has appointed his daughter in Parliament. “I’ve placed my daughter in my office, as she has the right. Where is the diversion?”, he wondered with disarming sincerity, and in fact revealed a fascist campaign against him with his weight at the epicenter!

“There is a systematic campaign led by Antonis Samaras, who went so far as to make his key adviser the leader of the campaign ... I have come to receive attacks because I am overweight and this is fascist ... but I will not do them the favor”.

“We politicians did many good things and many bad ones, too” he stressed, in particular referring to the Peponis law, who – as he said – “must remain in history”, but also the appointments through ASEP that were made in complete transparency.

“On the other hand, we fed our party army with special appointments and contracts of special work that gradually became permanent. And we should not have done that”, he added.

Finally, in relation to the demand for transparency and purification in political life, Pangalos supported that «there are serious cases of squandering political money that must evolve into criminal cases of accountability, but the big money was not lost there. For example, if there is proof of illegal commissions, then of course there must be detection and punishment. But the large debts were caused by the system itself that some took advantage of, and they must be punished”.