Main opposition SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras met on Friday with activists campaigning for the conversion of the former Athens airport site at Elliniko, Greece , into a metropolitan park and expressed the party’s support “for the struggle of Elliniko residents to avert the sell-off of the former airport and beach.” A SYRIZA announcement said that Tsipras had repeated a promise made by the party to re-examine all contracts drawn up by the Hellenic Republic Asset Development Fund (HRADF) selling public property to private owners, both in terms of their legality and in terms of protecting the public interest, in the new Parliament to be formed after the next elections. Responding to the announcement, government spokeswoman Sofia Voultepsi underlined that all HRADF decisions are legal, they are Greek government decisions and contracts with the Greek state. “Mr. Tsipras is insisting on the catastrophic scenario of the state’s…non-continuity while continuing to make statements about a supposed ‘re-examination’ of all HRADF contracts,” she said.
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