“I take responsibility for my actions”, said Pavlos Polakis – Outside the SYRIZA Parliamentary Group, the Cretan MP
THE Pavlos Polakis he does not regret the verbal attack on his colleague Adoni Georgiadis and even goes on the counterattack, saying that Natasha Petroulia was “shaking her head in a derogatory way”, while also attacking Athina Linou.
In his statements after the verbal attack and his deletion from his Parliamentary Group SYRIZAthe MP remains unrepentant, even calling on Mrs Linou to “apologize for her and not for me”.
“I take responsibility for my actions,” said Mr. Polakis, saying that “a lady, an associate of Mr. Georgiadis, the whole time I was highlighting the scandal of 1,750,000 euros instead of 300,000 euros, shook her head disparagingly . It was an understatement. I told her not to turn her face.”
Regarding Athena Linou’s reaction, Polakis stated: “Ms. Linou should apologize for her and not for me.”
“While these things are happening and we are revealing huge things, some people are pointing the finger, instead of telling the lady who belittled me that she was just a partner,” he added.
Outside the parliamentary group
Out of the parliamentary group of SYRIZA was placed Pavlos Polakisafter the verbal attack he launched on the legal advisor of Adonis Georgiadis, Natasa Petroulia.
“Following a proposal by the president of the party, Stefanos Kasselakis, Pavlos Polakis is removed from the Parliamentary Group of SYRIZA-PS by the president of KO, Sokratis Famellos”the relevant announcement states.
The letter of removal from the presidency of the Parliament was read
The letter of the president of the SYRIZA KO Sokratis Famellos regarding the removal of Chania MP Pavlos Polakis from the SYRIZA KO was read in plenary. The letter was read by the Vice President of the Parliament G. Lamproulis.
The episode of Pavlos Polakis with Natasa Petroulia
SYRIZA MP Pavlos Polakis was involved in a new episode on Thursday. This time he launched a verbal assault on his legal counsel Adonis GeorgiadisNatassa Petroulias in the context of the debate on the bill of the Ministry of Health.
Mr. Polakis, addressing Ms. Petroulia, told her: “Don’t pout my lady. You have a permanent, not a smile, you have a disrespectful twist of the mouth. Don’t do this, you’ve done it before and it’s irritating.”
And he went on to say: “He’s got a permanent face twist, you bastard. It’s irritating to see.”
MPs present intervened in the incident, including SYRIZA, with Ms. Linou even taking the floor, who, breaking into tears, asked “apologies to the colleague who suffered this form of violence. We cannot allow this kind of behavior, no matter who it comes from, to any woman and any human being.”
In particular, in his post on Twitter, the Minister of Health states: “at the meeting of the Social Affairs Committee of the Parliament, which was interrupted since yesterday, in my absence, Pavlos Polakis attacked my legal advisor Ms. Natassa Petroulia with incredible verbal violence. Ms. Petroulia was there at work, as her job is to prepare the legal improvements that we want or not to approve during the Committee meeting. So during her work, the SYRIZA MP attacked her because he said: “he doesn’t like her face, etc.” The committee did not speak to Mr. Polakis at all. His attack on a defenseless working woman was so brutal that his colleagues Mr. Bibilas from Pleusi Eleftherias, Mr. Panagiotopoulos and Ms. Athina Linou from SYRIZA immediately condemned the incident. , as of course the President of the Commission.
Mrs. Linou even shed tears of shame at the end, for the behavior of this man and how he made this working woman feel at that moment.
After all this, I contacted the President of the Parliament, Mr. Tassoulas, and requested that the Parliament take disciplinary measures against Mr. Polakis. Messing with me is understandable to some extent, but bullying a defenseless working woman into crying at work is Unacceptable! I wonder if SYRIZA will cover him again this time as he showed such a shameful behavior in front of everyone.”
A little while ago, at the meeting of the Social Affairs Committee of the Parliament, which was interrupted since yesterday, in my absence, the @pavpol2222 attacked my legal advisor Mr. Natassa Petroulia with incredible verbal violence. Mrs. Petroulia was there at her work, as her job…
— Adonis Georgiadi (@AdonisGeorgiadi) July 25, 2024
“Mr. Polakis has lost all decency”
The government representative Pavlos Marinakis made statements immediately after the episode requesting the removal of Mr. Polakis.
As Mr. Marinakis pointed out: “The SYRIZA member of parliament Pavlos Polakis today in the Parliament made, for the umpteenth time, an unprovoked verbal attack, directed against an associate of the Minister of Health Adonis Georgiadis”.
“It is now clear that Mr. Polakis has lost all limits of decency, just as we have lost count of the number of times he can attack without reason and reason any person he sees fit. This time he chose a working woman, who, in fact, could not even defend herself, since she had no right to speak,” said the government representative.
And he ended by saying: “We hope that this will be the last drop that will overflow the -admittedly spacious- glass of Mr. Kasselakis’s endless tolerance and that he will do, even with a huge delay, the self-evident thing, deleting Mr. Polakis. Now he doesn’t even convince his deputies, as was seen by the humane reaction of Ms. Linou to this new delirium of verbal violence by Mr. Polakis.”
Source: Skai
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