By Penelope Galliou

Reactions and intense concern continue to be caused by the possibility of the Kassidiaris party participating in the upcoming elections or of its “covert” descent through a “third” person, after the popular election by the Kassidiaris party’s organs, of the former vice-prosecutor of the Supreme Court Anastasios Kanellopoulos in position of the president.

Although the government assures that the institutional framework is sufficient, in order to put a brake on the attempt of the former Golden Dawn leader to return “through the back door” to the political events of the country, the government representative speaking on SKAI’s main news bulletin, he stated that the government is ready for an additional legislative intervention. “There is a sufficient framework, and if additional regulation is needed, we are here… We are on alert until Holy Tuesday, Holy Wednesday, when the Parliament closes” said Mr. Economou, declaring the government’s readiness to deal with any possible amendment or specialization is needed in the regulation that was recently voted in the Parliament for the “block” in the descent of the “mutated Golden Dawn”.

As the Minister of the Interior, Makis Voridis, told ERT, the government will proceed on Holy Monday with a new supplementary regulation, regarding the future of the Kasidiaris party and its descent into the upcoming elections. In other words, according to information, it is oriented to bring regulation so that the decision is taken by the plenary session of the 1st section of the Supreme Court, i.e. all 10 members, including the president, and not only by the five-member committee, as is currently the case.

In any case, time is counting down and the “baton” to resolve any issues that are raised will be taken over by the Supreme Court anyway, at the beginning of May as the Supreme Court is responsible for declaring the political parties that will participate in the elections.

It is recalled that the new law, which the government brought to the Parliament, aimed to prevent the members of a criminal organization from entering the Parliament again Golden Dawn, who injured the Republic with its practices and its rhetoric and as they emphasize from Megaros Maximos will persist on this front. Therefore, according to the said law that was recently passed in the Parliament, it is prohibited to participate in elections of parties whose leaders have been convicted of crimes, such as that of the criminal organization. In fact, the ban applies not only to the apparent leaders of a candidate party but also to its actual leadership, a provision that can be applied in the specific case where the former deputy prosecutor of the Supreme Court Anastasios Kanellopoulos and the supreme court will appear as the head of the party will be asked to decide whether the party to be led by Mr. Kanellopoulos is in fact a party formation led by Ilias Kasidiaris.