“Mr. Tsipras and the SYRIZA executives, who ostensibly work every day to protect the labor rights of workers and especially foreign workers, are heavily exposed to the machinations of the head of Transparency, Mr. Ragousis,” New Democracy emphasizes in a statement.

As stated in the announcement, “according to today’s publication of the “Parapolitika” newspaper, Mr Villa of Paros – who caused pan-Hellenic attention with the defiantly luxurious villa he rents on the cosmopolitan island of 450 sq.m. with a swimming pool and tennis court for 14,000 euros per week and which he defiantly built with a loan from the Workers’ Housing Organization while he was the Mayor of Paros – it is revealed according to the testimony of a working cleaner of Ukrainian origin, that he mediated and “arranged” the inspection for her undeclared work , which she herself complains was found by the Labor Inspectorate at the hotel of his wife’s family, where she worked, to be uninsured.

The head of the Transparency department of SYRIZA has not given any convincing explanation, only cheap excuses, while he systematically avoids declaring his income from the particular residence from where he is related and continues to challenge the citizens’ intelligence”.

The ND also underlines that, “the provocative Mr. Ragousis with his post yesterday essentially confirmed the incident and hid behind the reference of the post by his former relative who, while confirming the employment of the employee in question at their family hotel in Naoussa, Paros, uses the unacceptable term of “candidate worker”. What does “candidate worker” mean? Does it exist as a legal term?

Can a “candidate worker” offer her services without her employer insuring her as she claims? Is this practice compatible with labor law or is it a clear violation of it?

And to be clear. Does the supposedly pro-worker Mr. Tsipras accept as political behavior that one of his MPs “settles” the fine that caused a worker to be fired according to her words and indeed without compensation and after she had previously given her papers to work and the only was it her sin that she did not lie to the labor inspectors who did the inspection that Mr. Ragousis “arranged” as she had been asked to do?

Despite the continuous revelations, Mr. Ragousis continues to “blow the whistle indifferently”. Will Mr. Tsipras continue to cover for him, as he has been doing to this day and at the same time cut back allegedly in favor of workers’ rights?”, concludes the announcement of the ND.