The Plenary voted to lift Nikos Pappa’s immunity

The request to lift the immunity of SYRIZA MP Nikos Pappas was accepted by the Plenary.

The request for the waiver of immunity was related to a case of false testimony allegedly given by Mr. Pappas, during the operation of the commission of inquiry. 180 MPs voted in favor of the immunity waiver request, while 99 MPs voted against.

“You made a flyer of the spy products against a minister of the Hellenic Republic and you are trying to limit the publication of findings, about the wiretapping, which expose you irreparably” said Nikos Pappas, addressing the seats of the majority, a few minutes before the roll-call vote began.

“My constant targeting has made you laugh. Especially when you are unsuccessfully trying to hide your own scandalous stories. Hit as much as you want. You make us stronger. Search as much as you can and while you have time. Because as you search, you stumble upon your own iniquities. We have nothing to hide. So vote with your mind in the future. Sixty of you will not be in the next Parliament. In a Parliament where the progressive majority will check all the smelly cases of the last three years and the justice system will be left to do its job, said Nikos Pappas.

The SYRIZA MP referred to the conditions – political, social, economic – in which his parliamentary immunity is lifted.

“At this time, Mr. Mitsotakis receives repeated blows and from these blows he stumbles politically. The revelations about the surveillance weigh on him. The tragic management of the pandemic, with the thousands of dead outside the ICU, of which he had said he did not know. He is burdened by the uncontrollable precision, in food, fuel and energy. He is burdened by the social, political and economic instability that he promises. Because he promises, among other things, successive elections, if his party wins the upcoming elections”, said Nikos Pappas.

Nikos Pappas presented himself as another victim of the “parastate surveillance”, which in his case, took place with the “wired Mionis”.

“So Mr. Mitsotakis, who is under investigation for wiretapping, is now also found guilty of today’s bad taste prank, with which he actually adds another link in the chain of parastatal surveillance. Monitoring of political opponents of the ND, monitoring of internal party opponents of Mr. Mitsotakis, monitoring of businessmen. And don’t wonder, because your communication design is ready to disprove everything. One thing has not been denied. The publication of Kathimerini which said that other politicians and possibly businessmen are also being monitored. So this publication has not been refuted”, said Nikos Pappas and added that “the parastatal surveillances, as it turns out, started very early, from 2016, with the wired Myonis”, said the SYRIZA MP.

Nikos Pappas named Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis as the “orchestrator” of the parastatal surveillance.

“Since then it is obvious and has been proven by the facts, that Mr. Mitsotakis himself is orchestrating a parastatal surveillance. A parastatal multiple surveillance operation,” said Nikos Pappas. In relation to the specific case, the SYRIZA MP underlined that the majority recommends today the lifting of his immunity “even though the act of recording is illegal and the material is inadmissible as evidence, even though the essence of Mioni’s allegations has collapsed and has been discredited, with the will that acquits Papaghelopoulos, Filippakis and Papadakou, although a judicial investigation is underway, for this illegal surveillance, after the filing of the SYRIZA petition made by Fotis Kouvelis and Olga Gerovasilis, although the substance of the allegations Mioni has collapsed and the only thing that is obviously criminal is that ND MPs, in the committee for Papagelopoulos, knew the content of the illegally recorded conversation, long before it was published, and long before it was made a flyer by the fans of secrets and privacy”.

In particular, regarding the position of the ND, in the request to lift his immunity, Nikos Pappas pointed out that the Parliament decides on a case of illegal recording, on the same day that it closes the work of the investigation committee on the wiretapping. “However, the ND insists, he said, because the ND and its leadership want to send a final message of blackmail to those who have been monitored so far, and tells them to be careful because there may come to the plenary session a cutting, transcribed discussions made by the EYP and its offshoots”.

“However”, Nikos Pappas continued, “the political death knell of the Mitsotakis government is not blackmail, because it seals its political isolation”. “The time will come when they will pay a very important political price”, discounted the SYRIZA MP, regarding the electoral course of the ND.

“Mitsotakis today, with this choice, is trying to blackmail those he was watching, in the past”, insisted the SYRIZA MP, who characterized Kyriakos Mitsotakis, “leader of the parastatal mechanism” and emphasized that “his MPs knew the content of the illegal recorded conversation”.

“Mitsotakis thought he could coerce parties, businessmen and dictate political developments. But this effort is over,” said Nikos Pappas.

Referring to the operation of the commission of inquiry for wiretapping, Nikos Pappas said the government does not want the Greek people to know who gave the order for the surveillance of Nikos Androulakis nor who organized the surveillance of Christos Spirtzis, who organized the surveillance journalists, the Greek people don’t want to know about the country’s “international drag” and “the fact that Mitsotakis, in the parlance of Brussels, is called the Orban of the Balkans”.

He also said that the government “does not want the Greek people to know even about the case of the close associate of Prime Minister Nikos Georgiadis, who was convicted and expected to be released, due to the statute of limitations, while he was convicted in the first instance, for negligence against minors”.

In this climate, he also referred to the Lignadis case, for which he complained that “some mechanisms gave infinite time to cover the tracks, from his laptop”, to conclude that “this cover-up operation is still developing today before the of the Greek people”, with the accused of rape and pimping of a minor. “I would expect you to be more anxious than we are for all 213 names of potential child rapists to be released.

Because this bastard was organizing Patoulis gatherings, taking direct assignments, his wife was an executive of Bakoyannis faction. You should have been at the forefront of making the names of all 10 identified individuals and 213 public,” said the SYRIZA MP.

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