Parliament-N / s for modernization of EFKA: SYRIZA’s objection of unconstitutionality rejected

Turned down by the majority h objection of unconstitutionality that they had filed SYRIZA and DAY25 on him bill of Ministry of Labor for modernization of ΕΦΚΑ. The government majority voted against the objection of unconstitutionality, while the opposition, apart from SYRIZA and MERA25, voted in favor of the proposal and the KKE, while KINAL and Hellenic Solution declared “present”.

The General Rapporteur of SYRIZA, Mariliza Xenogiannakopoulouspoke of a “direct violation of the Constitution” while the Minister of Labor Kostis Hatzidakis, responding and rejecting the objections of unconstitutionality, accused the official opposition that it operates with two meters and two weights.

“The provisions of the bill for the appointment of transferable employees to institutionalized positions of permanent civil servants directly violate the principles of the Constitution for meritocracy, equality and transparency,” said Ms. Xenogiannakopoulou, calling on the parties to support the constitutional objection. Referring to the report of the Scientific Committee of the Parliament, she claimed that “her remarks are a cover for the bill in terms of special evaluation and special mission and announces in advance what will follow if voted.”

“The principle of neutral public administration is being violated. We have arrested all the general managers and heads of EFKA with photographic provisions, with appointments made with the complete bypassing of ΑΣΕΠ. The Constitution is directly violated by the formation of a three-member disciplinary council without the participation of elected representatives of the employees, creating unequal treatment. It is clear that the constitutional principles of equality, meritocracy, democracy and transparency are being violated “, underlined Mrs. Xenogiannakopoulou.

“If an organization that has been collecting 48% of citizens’ complaints concerning the wider public sector for years is not a special case, then what is?” The Minister of Labor and Social Affairs, Kostis Hatzidakis, typically stressed, rejecting the objection of unconstitutionality.

At the same time, Mr. Hatzidakis attacked SYRIZA accusing him of rhetoric of two meters and two stations. “We do not close our eyes to the huge problems of EFKA and the insured, just as the Constitution does not close them, which has special provisions that we use”, said the minister and added: “SYRIZA operates with two meters and two weights. He speaks today about the unconstitutionality of the bill for EFKA, while he forgets that when he was in government he passed a law on the Land Registry which provided for the hiring of a General Director and Deputy General Managers from the private sector. Was there no problem there? If there is unconstitutionality in one case of EFKA does not exist in the other of the Land Registry? “

Still, Mr. Hatzidakis accused the SYRIZA that “it takes the place of certain minorities within the EFKA who think they are affected, indifferent to the suffering of millions of Greeks.” “What we are doing today is a summary of social policy. Because we come to give substantial solutions to the problems of our suffering fellow human beings. And that is why you are breaking your clothes “, he pointed out.

Referring to the regulation for the recruitment of General Managers and Directors from the private sector, the Minister of Labor underlined that “this possibility is provided by the Constitution for the public sector, when there are properly justified special conditions”.

At the same time, he rejected the accusations of trying to create a party army by recruiting “golden boys” from the private sector, opposing that “we do not address only the private sector, but also the public sector as a whole and the EFKA executives.”

“There are certain addresses and functions within the Agency for which there is obviously experience in EFKA employees that can not be found elsewhere. We are not going to dogmatically recruit only from the private sector to worsen the situation instead of improving it. The goal is to address the problems of the insured. This requires the interest of the defenseless Greeks who suffer in the queues, wait for years to get their pension, have a series of service problems from EFKA. “We are coming to answer these problems, creating a new management team that in a few months will give additional impetus to this long-suffering Organization”, he stated characteristically.

Responding to the opposition’s accusations about the disciplinary councils and the internal audits, Mr. Hatzidakis underlined that “at the moment there are more than 1,100 pending complaints concerning 7,500 employees, because the disciplinary council operates at a tortoise pace and there are no the respective services to examine the issues “. “What is your problem?” That we abbreviate the dates on which the disciplinary committee examines or that we remove the trade unionists from the disciplinary? Yes, we take the trade unionists out of the disciplinary. It is not the job of the EFKA trade unionists to judge the cases of their colleagues. And we believe this and we emphasize it. Article 103 of the Constitution you refer to stipulates that 2/3 of the members of the disciplinary council must be permanent civil servants. Two out of three members are civil servants. Permanent civil servants, yes, but not compositions like the ones we had until today that led to these brilliant results “, concluded Mr. Hatzidakis.

For her part, the parliamentary representative of MERA25, Fotini Bakadima, defended her party’s proposal, stressing that “the provisions for the recruitment of General Directors and Directors with a three-year term from the private sector directly conflict with the Constitution.” “According to the Constitution, no one can be appointed to an organic position held by a permanent civil servant who is evolving in terms of rank and salary and can not be dismissed or transferred without a decision of the disciplinary board made by objective criteria by an independent authority. “The bill violates the constitutional principle for the operation of the public administration and the provision which completely bypasses ASEP is clearly unconstitutional and illegal,” said Ms. Bakadima.

KINAL parliamentary representative Nadia Giannakopoulou disagreed on the issue of unconstitutionality, arguing that her party’s objection is deeply political to the highly problematic articles of the bill, but that the Constitution should be used sparingly.

“The ΚΙΝΑΛ focuses on the problematic articles of the bill for which we have expressed strong objections on the principle and on the articles. Our opposition is mainly deeply political and essential to the shortcomings and failures, the customer logic that governs the bill but we do not consider it necessary to raise issues of unconstitutionality. Let the Constitution be quiet. Do not abuse it. As a parliamentary group, KINAL cautiously and responsibly invokes the Constitution. “But the political controversy is different from the constitutional argument that must be solid”, said Mrs. Giannakopoulou characteristically and added:

“The report of the scientific committee of the Parliament raises issues that cause concern, such as the very serious issue with the establishment of the disciplinary councils, but we will trust the Greek courts. However, the deconstruction of this bill will be done with unshakable political arguments and substantiated and not with objections of unconstitutionality. “The field of our political confrontation is to ensure the efficiency and operation of the public administration to serve the citizen and that it will certainly not succeed with the unworthy provisions of the bill”, he concluded.

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