SYRIZA-Progressive Alliance leader Alexis Tsipras slammed the government and Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis during the final day of the five-day parliamentary debate on the 2022 State Budget on Saturday.

Addressing the premier, the main opposition party leader said he "failed, not only in terms of the economy, but also morally."

Tsipras also called on Mitsotakis to resign and proceed to holding national elections. Referring to the recent report on the management of the coronavirus pandemic by health experts Sotiris Tsiodras and Thedoros Litras, Tsipras said "the guilty government should leave."

Continuing, Tsipras added that "not only your so-called executive state proved insufficient [...] but your government -and you personally- tried to reap political gains at a time of crisis and pain, during the public health tragedy and the financial hardship, and attempted to create a false triumph, an illusion of success based on lies and propaganda."

With his criticism focusing on the government's management of the coronavirus pandemic, Tsipras said "reality is bleak for the people who will perish, when one knows that they could be saved."