Main opposition New Democracy (ND) president Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Friday again expressed his center-right party’s standing disagreement with the Prespa Agreement, the provisional accord signed by the Tsipras and Zaev governments last June to finally resolve the long-standing fYRoM “name issue”.
Mitsotakis spoke from the northern city of Thessaloniki, which is commemorating the feast day of its patron saint, St. Demetrius, the 106th anniversary of the metropolis’ liberation from Ottoman rule and Sunday’s “Oxi Day”, commemorating Greece’s 1940 entry into WWII.
“As developments are ongoing, ones against our national interests we remind that we, as New Democracy, will not back any agreement that cedes a Macedonian language and Macedonian ethnicity to our neighbors,” he said.
In a related development, the main opposition party on Friday called for a release of the minutes from a tumultuous Cabinet meeting last week, when a heated argument erupted between Defense Minister Panos Kammenos and subsequently resigned Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias over the Prespa agreement.
