“In this government and as far as I am concerned, there has not been a single moment when a business interest has been served. “This government serves the public interest,” said Minister of State George Gerapetritis, responding earlier in plenary to the political “pounding” that he and the government are receiving personally from the official opposition.
“No business was done to any businessman, no individual. On the contrary, there was very strict observance of the legislation “, said Mr. Gerapetritis who noted that the political confrontation can not be done in terms of hostility and intolerance but on the basis of arguments and consultation. The exchange of sms of the Minister of State George Gerapetritis with Menios Fourthiotis, was at the center of controversy, with the opening of today’s third session in Plenary on the motion of censure against the government.
“It is unfortunate that in a supreme parliamentary process, such as the motion of censure against the government, which can lead to significant political changes, the official opposition chooses to personify issues that do not concern public policy,” the Minister said. who accused SYRIZA of “witch-hunting”, which targets him and through Mr. Gerapetritis, the prime minister himself.
“I have never seen Mr. Fourthiotis. I have never been on any of his shows. I have not given an interview to any of its publications. I speak to him in the plural, as the whole society found out and as you also found out from the interception messages, which you spread, and in the Parliament, as criminals, “said George Gerapetritis and added that he has contacted three or four times with Menios Fourthiotis, by phone, and “of course, before any issue of his illegal action arises”.
“In my view of public authority, when anyone submits a report, which is a constitutional right, that report should be answered,” he said, adding to the official opposition: “You know, and journalists publishers and owners of your own newspapers, Documento, the Journal of the Editors, in exactly the same tone and in the same way I respond. In any matter concerning the legislative work or at their own request, they will obviously receive an answer. It is a constitutional requirement and is never done in secret. It is always done transparently “.
Specifically for the content of the communication he had with Menios Fourthiotis, Mr. Gerapetritis said that one message was a greeting, the plural and the other was a response to a request submitted and the response was negative. “The request made by Mr. Fourthiotis and his station is rejected”, said George Gerapetritis and responding to the complaints about transaction, conciliation made by SYRIZA, he stated that today the official opposition “adopts Mr. Fourthiotis as its politician child, mixes the so-called, brings to the Parliament the products of crime, violation of the secrecy of communications, as do the newspapers close to SYRIZA “.
The Minister of State said that Mr. Fourthiotis is today turning against the government because the request he submitted was the request of his station to broadcast from the DIGEA platform because it has a license in Cyprus, citing the EU directive which was to be incorporated. This request was rejected, “although, in Parliament, the opposition expressed a reservation as to whether this provision should be adopted. In particular, this provision has not been incorporated into our law. The request was rejected “, said Mr. Gerapetritis and added that the Ministry of Labor gave an order to SEPE and EFKA for the observance of the insurance legislation to control all the companies of the specific person. The Ministry of Labor did not forward the file to the SDOE and the Prosecutor’s Office. On the basis of this transfer, Mr. Fourthiotis was arrested and remanded in custody. “It simply came to our notice then. Are they transaction products?
“All this proves that this government is very strict in complying with the law,” said the Minister of State, who accused SYRIZA of undermining the institutions with his attitude.
Regarding the fire that the staff state receives, George Gerapetritis said that the staff state is not everything that happens in the exercise of public policy but the staff coordinates, monitors and evaluates the policies. “Every time there are mistakes and failures – and we have made mistakes – it is true that we have to coordinate and monitor. “But this is the state’s right,” said the Minister of State, adding that the heart of the executive state is the formulation of horizontal policies.
The parliamentary representative of SYRIZA, Panos Skourletis, commented that the Minister of State did not deny today the exchange of sms and the conversations of government officials with Mr. Fourthiotis, on the contrary, he confirmed them both in terms of content and their existence. “The political issue is that a minister apologizes to a TV presenter of Mr. Fourthiotis’s level and characteristics, and apologizes to him for being late in incorporating his demands into a bill,” Mr Skourletis said, adding that what was revealed by sms are the thanks of government officials for their sanctification. “This man had 14 police guards when there was a savage crime outside,” Mr. Skourletis said, stressing that Mr. Gerapetritis should either have resigned or been fired. “The fact that the prime minister is holding you means that he also has full responsibility for the intertwined, transactional relations that your government is building with the Fourthiots,” said the SYRIZA parliamentary representative and predicted that the government would not escape his wrath. of the world for what it has done with the pandemic, the precision, the entanglement.
The parliamentary representative of ND Christos Boukoros accused SYRIZA of attempting to “kill characters” and that he remains in his delusions despite the triple failure of 2019. “Mr. Gerapetritis’ answers were very complete. SYRIZA’s effort falls on deaf ears. “We have a communication about a request that was rejected, so everything else is an empty scenario,” said the ND parliamentary representative.
“We heard in Parliament that it does not matter that you are trafficking a product of crime,” the Minister of State replied, adding that those who violate the secrecy of communications are a product of crime. “In this government and as far as I am concerned, there has not been a single moment when a business interest has been served. I would be much better off being out of politics, whatever the case may be. Because you know a lot of people have a life outside of politics. “They could be out of politics and be just as good,” said George Gerapetritis.
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