The provision for the final block in the Kasidiari party was submitted to Parliament a while ago. What changes is that the conditions will be controlled by the A1 Department of the Supreme Court “in whose composition the President and all its members participate, which receives or may request relevant documentation from the competent judicial or other authorities as the case may be” .

With the new regulation, the government’s goal, according to competent sources, “is to strengthen the judicial crisis, to shield it so that this judicial crisis has no room for doubt wherever it ends up.”

The amendment will be put to a vote in Parliament on Holy Tuesday.

The amendment was tabled in the bill entitled “Regulations concerning Local Government Organizations of the first and second degree – Provisions for the welfare of companion animals – Provisions for the human resources of the public sector – Other regulations of the Ministry of the Interior and other urgent provisions”.

Specifically, the fifth paragraph of par. 1 of article 32 of the p.d. 26/2012 (A’57) is amended by the addition of the phrase “whose composition includes its President and all its members, which receives or may request relevant documentation from the relevant judicial or other authorities” and the par. 1 is formulated as follows:

What the regulation says:

Regulations concerning Local Government Organizations of the first and second degree – Provisions for the well-being of companion animals – Provisions for human resources of the public sector – Other regulations of the Ministry of the Interior and other urgent provisions”

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Control of the conditions for drawing up combinations by AI Department of the Supreme Court – Amendment of article 32 ff. 26/2012 paragraph par. of article 32 of the p.d. 26/2012 (A’57) is amended by adding “fishing, the composition of which includes its President and all its members, may receive relevant documentation from the relevant judicial authorities” and paragraph is formulated as follows:

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

a) a party has been legally established.

b) The president, general secretary, members of the executive committee, legal representative and actual leadership of the party have been sentenced to any degree of imprisonment for the offenses of the chapters of the Second Book of the Penal Code, any sentence for crimes of the Military Penal Code carrying a life sentence imprisonment. The deprivation of the right to draw up combinations, according to this case, applies for the duration of the imposed sentence and is calculated from the day of the final conviction. The imposition of this statute of limitations affects 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 managing committee, legal representative, by specific actions appears to be in charge of the party, to have installed virtual leadership, to have a leading political role towards electorate.

c) The organization and action of the party to serve the free functioning of the democratic state.

The judgment that the action of the political party serves the free functioning of the democratic state may take place when there is
conviction of any degree of candidate deputies founding members acting presidents for the offenses of articles 134, 187 and 187A of the Criminal Code.

In the event of a coalition of parties, the above conditions must be met for each of the parties forming a coalition.

The compliance with the present conditions is checked ex officio by AI Department of the Supreme Court, whose composition includes its President and all its members, it may receive relevant documentation from the relevant judicial authorities as the case may be. To aid his judgment, the following have the right to submit a memorandum of documentation until the expiry of the deadline of paragraph 34:

1) the political parties and coalitions of Parties that have elected representatives to the Parliament of the Hellenes in the last general parliamentary elections from the combinations of the same coalition party,

2) the political parties and coalitions that have elected representatives in the last elections for the selection of Greek representatives European
Parliament.

AI Department of the Supreme Court in the case of an ex officio audit of the submission of documentary evidence for the specified matters, invites any audited party in an appropriate way to take notice and submit a memorandum of its views.

See the new regulation HERE