Voridis on SKAI 100.3: Open to interventions for the amendment – “block” in Kasidiaris party

We are open to interventions that are in the direction of improving and shielding the regulation for the non-participation of criminal organizations in the elections, but not to a proposal like that of SYRIZA, the Minister of the Interior said today Friday on SKAI 100.3 Makis Voridis.

“We’re interested in to achieve a broad majority” the minister pointed out at the same time about the amendment, which was submitted to the Parliament. Mr. Voridis clarified at the same time that the provision applies to all electoral contests and to municipal elections.

The amendment is expected to be discussed and voted on in the plenary session of the Parliament next Tuesday, as it was incorporated into the draft law of the Ministry of Development entitled “Incorporation of Directive (EU) 2020/1828 of the European Parliament and of the Council of November 25, 2020 “regarding representative actions for the protection of the collective interests of consumers and for the repeal of Directive 2009/22/EC’, strengthening consumer protection, regulatory framework for the aging of wines and other urgent provisions to enhance development’.

What is foreseen in the amendment for the electoral “bloc” in the Kasidiari party

With the amendment, which is entitled “Right to form combinations in parliamentary elections – Replacement of par. 1 of article 32 of Law No. 26/2012” the following is provided for:

“1. In the parliamentary elections, either combinations of candidates of a single party, or combinations of a coalition of more than one cooperating parties, or coalitions of independent candidates, or individual candidates take part. In order to draw up a combination, the following conditions must be met cumulatively:

a) The party must be legally established.

b) The president, the general secretary, the members of the management committee, the legal representative and the actual leadership of the party have not been sentenced to any degree of imprisonment for the offenses of chapters 1-6 of the Second Book of the Criminal Code, or to any sentence for offenses under the Military Penal Code punishable by life imprisonment, or to life imprisonment for any other offence. The deprivation of the right to draw up combinations, according to the present case, applies for the duration of the imposed sentence and is calculated from the day after the day of the final conviction. The imposition or non-imposition of the penalty or its statute of limitations has no influence on the calculation of the above period of time. In the context of this article, real leadership means that a person other than the one who formally holds the position of president, general secretary, member of the governing committee or legal representative by specific acts appears to exercise party management, or has placed virtual leadership , or to have the leading political role towards the electorate.

c) The organization and action of the party to serve the free functioning of the democratic state. For the assessment of the assistance of this condition, any conviction to any degree of candidates for parliament, or founding members, or acting presidents for the offenses and the penalties of the first paragraph of c. b) is taken into account.

In the case of a coalition of parties, the above conditions must be met for each of the parties that make up the coalition.

The compliance with the present conditions is checked ex officio by the First Department of the Supreme Court. To aid his judgment, political parties and every voter have the right to submit a memorandum with documentary evidence until the day after the deadline of paragraph 1 of article 34.”

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