With 16 votes from ND and GREEK SOLUTION (3/5 majority), the Conference of Presidents voted in favor of the change in the leadership of the ESR.

The new president is Efterpi Koutzamani, who was a prosecutor of the Supreme Court.

In the new ESR vice president is the journalist Yiannis Politis and members are: Dimitris Stavropoulos, Eutychis Pallikaris, Spyridon Chrysofotis, Petros Triantafyllidis Giorgos Vlavianos, Yiannis Michelakis.

SYRIZA, PASOK, Spartans, Niki and Pleussi Eleftherias voted against.

“Present” from KKE.

Absent from the vote was Zoi Konstantopoulou, who is sick with coronavirus.

The president of Plefsis Eleftheria sent a letter to the president of the Parliament regarding the convening of the Conference of Presidents for the appointment of the new composition of the National Radio and Television Council and the new members of the Authority for Ensuring the Privacy of Communications, expressing objections to the procedure.

Mrs. Konstantopoulou requests, among other things, the postponement of today’s meetings and the possibility of hearing the proposed persons.

“Given the fact that the specific Independent Authorities are responsible for Freedom of Information and Securing the Privacy of Communications, Top Rights in a Rule of Law, for the violation of which the Government is under scrutiny, it is obvious that this move is an attempt to manipulate the procedures before the Independent Authorities and in particular the Government’s control procedures for the Surveillance Scandal, through the Prime Minister’s Office and the EYP, but also for the issues of its interference with freedom of information”, he underlines.