“Democracy is respect for the right to vote of every citizen” and “respect for the popular verdict“, emphasized Zoe Konstantopoulou, head of Freedom of Navigation, starting her speech in the Parliament, during the discussion of the bill which removes the restrictions on the special electoral lists of foreign voters.

Zoi Konstantopoulou described the relevant bill as “positive”. saying that it is “in all respects acceptable to Freedom Sailing, precisely because we consider that it was also the government’s response to our own initiative to place the issue of Greeks abroad at the center of the discussion on the program statements”. As he explained, the bill “removes the restrictions on Greeks abroad and makes it easier for them to exercise their right to vote” for those registered in the electoral rolls.

The head of Freedom of Navigation during her speech made extensive reference to the fires raging in the country, noting that the bill “is being introduced on a day when our country is being tested. Fires have broken out in many cities, villages, parts of Greece, and of course the fires have been raging in Rhodes for a week now, resulting in a real holocaust,” he said. “Such is the condition of the disaster that the celebration of the anniversary of the restoration of the Republic was cancelleds”, he added, “something that had happened Mr. Prime Minister, only in 2018, after the Eye».

Mrs. Konstantopoulou emphasized that “unfortunately this state despite repeated tragedies, despite repeated losses, does not learn and if the state does not learn…. then the losses will be constantly recurringi”. He characterized the fires in Rhodes as an unprecedented condition for the island’s residents, speaking of cries of anguish and despair. “It reminds me of the situation of the residents of North Evia two years ago“, he said and added, addressing Kyriakos Mitsotakis, that “heit is important that no human life was lost. No one underestimates it, when the experience is in the Eye.”

Zoi Konstantopoulou then accused the state apparatus of being inactive in Rhodes and that for too many days “there was no proper intervention». As he said, “it is the result of the fact that there was no planning, there was not and there is no equipment, there was not and there is no timely response mechanism to prevent the fire from becoming uncontrollable».