During the debate, the parliamentary representative of the main opposition party, Dimitris Mantzos, requested that a vote first be held on PASOK’s proposal for the launch of a national dialogue through the establishment of a National committee on agricultural production and food resilience. Mantzos stressed that PASOK says yes to dialogue, but no to what he described as government pretexts and evasions.
From the side of SYRIZA, parliamentary representative Nikos Pappas reiterated his party’s proposal for the creation of a National agricultural policy council under the auspices of Parliament, underlining that all proposals submitted by the parties should be put to a vote.
Objections to the procedure were also raised by other opposition parties, which characterised the government’s proposed dialogue through an inter-party parliamentary committee as pretextual and insufficient to address the structural problems of the primary sector.
Responding to the criticism, ND parliamentary spokesperson Notis Mitarakis argued that, instead of submitting substantive proposals within a national dialogue, opposition parties are seeking excuses to differentiate themselves.
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