Over the past 24 hours, Zoe Konstantopoulou has launched an all-out offensive, with particular focus on Adonis Georgiadis, hurling extreme characterizations, references to a “deep state,” and demands for resignations. At the same time, however, she has avoided giving explanations regarding allegations voiced by her former MP Eleni Karageorgopoulou, who spoke of a list of government officials allegedly considered untouchable by the party.

Targeting Mr. Georgiadis, the president of Course of Freedom called him, among other things, “a despicable individual.” The Minister of Health rushed to Parliament to respond in kind, describing her as the most “toxic” and “poisonous” party leader, and claiming that Zoe Konstantopoulou is a “defender of rapists.” He added that he would try to “send her to prison,” even if it meant filing “15 lawsuits a week.”

The exchange between the two politicians spiraled beyond all bounds of reason. Taking her cue from a statement by Mr. Georgiadis — who revealed that he had been informed by a police officer about a lawsuit filed against him by her — Ms. Konstantopoulou demanded resignations and publicly released, via a post, a private message she had sent to the Minister for Citizen Protection Michalis Chrysochoidis.

“This constitutes a direct challenge to legality, the separation of powers, and the very democratic functioning of the state,” the leader of Course of Freedom noted, among other things, in her post, calling on Mr. Chrysochoidis to demand Mr. Georgiadis’s resignation — or to resign himself.

In her lengthy post, Zoe Konstantopoulou referred to the killings of Grigoropoulos and Zak Kostopoulos, spoke of the operation of a para-state through links between the police and the government, and added that the head of the Hellenic Police had contacted her on the matter, assuring her that “the service will investigate whether any police officer breached their duty.”

The battle then moved online, with Adonis Georgiadis responding via a mocking tweet: “Because a police officer friend of mine saw her — or colleagues told him laughing — that she showed up at the police station at 11:51 p.m. in sleepwear, basically a robe de chambre, to file a lawsuit against me and made a fool of herself, Chrysochoidis must resign…” he wrote, punctuating the post with laughter.

“Confronting Konstantopoulou’s bullying is my duty to democracy”

Speaking late at night on One Channel, Mr. Georgiadis admitted that “the image of me shouting is not right, but Ms. Konstantopoulou has fought with everyone in Parliament. I am polite, but if someone thinks they can bully me, I react. Ms. Konstantopoulou bullies people in Parliament. She pushes you to your limits — she’s the worst thing in the flesh.”

He also said that “I don’t like the idea of taking a political opponent to court. But since she sued me and called me a coward because I didn’t sue her first — what bothers me is the cunning — since she doesn’t understand any other language, what can we do?” Asked what he hopes to achieve, the Health Minister replied: “I also have the example of Polakis. He shouted and shouted; I beat him in all the courts, and now he’s become a lamb.”

“Confronting Konstantopoulou’s bullying is my duty to democracy. I’ll take a hit, I’ll lose votes, but it’s my duty. To the anti-system audience she addresses, if we don’t answer her — as Kasidiaris once did — she builds a narrative that everyone is afraid of me. We can’t condemn bullying in schools and treat it as an offense, and then allow it in Parliament by a woman.”