Today’s verbal attack by Pavlos Polakis against an associate of the Minister of Health, Adonis Georgiadis, was described by the parliamentary representatives as shameful, unacceptable and reprehensible. while they drafted and fully agreed with the severe penalties imposed on him by the president of the Parliament, Costas Tasoula.

“We are not perfect who judge Mr. Polakis with this severity. And first, I’m not perfect. But there are limits and these limits were shamefully crossed today and we have to react”, said the president of the Parliament.

“We support everything that the president of the Parliament, Kostas Tasoulas, said and let’s keep the positive that was there. Mrs. Linou’s reaction and her tear for the event that happened. It represents all of us and everyone condemned the incident immediately”, said the parliamentary representative of the ND, Thanasis Pleuris and added: “Because I listened very carefully to Mr. Famellos, we will have to think at some point as a whole about the way we ourselves will protect ourselves the authority of Parliament. In the case of Mr. Polakis, it was a special case that caused a lot, but we should look at all our behaviors.”

At this point, the president of the Parliament intervened for the second time, to underline that “seeing the minutes of the Parliament, indeed Mr. Bibilas also disapproved of the behavior of Mr. Polakis and the chairman of the committee, Giorgos Stylios, characterized the behavior as highly unacceptable of Mr. Polakis and therefore there is this unanimity in disapproval”.

“Some people pursue a career in politics, because many of us who don’t fight, don’t dispute, don’t shout, don’t feel like fighting with them, because it’s not our style and because mentally we can’t stand to receive insults and insults. And that leaves them in an immunity, in an invulnerability, because no one wants to mess with them,” he said.

As Mr. Tasoulas said, “no one deals with him, because no one, to be fair, wants to deal with courts”.

“Well, that’s the end of this story. End. He cannot continuously, the same persons – and for that matter himself – tarnish his title, his role, his party, all of us, because we do not feel like fighting with him. Repeat. The regulation of the Parliament was made for people who behave much better and sometimes rarely paraphrase, for hope. Here we rarely have hope. Here’s hoping he’s doing well. This today exceeded all limits”, pointed out the president of the Parliament.

At the same time, he made it known that he would consider stricter changes to the Parliament’s regulations.

“Certainly Mrs. Athina Glinou, expressing everyone, with the sensitivity of a deeply civilized woman, reacted in time, correctly, but I also have to preserve the prestige of the Parliament. I have no other more strict means, obviously I will resort to stricter changes to the regulation. I am ashamed of this need and I hope that this will not happen again, but I do not believe it, because there is a perception that as long as we are like this, behaving in a bully way, it can be accepted in a small part of society. Well, it’s not acceptable to us. And we are not perfect who judge Mr. Polakis with this severity. And first of all I’m not perfect, but there are limits and the limits were shamefully exceeded today and we have to react”, said Mr. Tasoulas.

“On the part of PASOK – Movement for Change, we unequivocally condemn the event and fully agree with the core of the position of the Speaker of the Parliament, Mr. Tasoula, as well as with the measures he suggested. I emphatically add the word SHAME. Personally, in addition to the complaint, I really feel shame and deep regret” said the Parliamentary Representative of PASOK, Paris Koukoulopoulos.

“Yesterday we celebrated a very glorious day for the Hellenic Republic and it is the duty of all of us to give substance to this day every day – not just on anniversaries.”, he added.

“It is clear that it is an unacceptable and reprehensible event, insulting to human dignity and we agree in this respect with the further announcements made by the Speaker of the Parliament”, said the parliamentary representative of the KKE, Nikos Karathanasopoulos.

“We also unequivocally condemn the incident. Amidst all this negativity and the many incidents that are happening, there is an optimistic message. It is – and congratulations to the president of SYRIZA, Sokratis Famellos, for the immediate reaction, and to Athena Glinou, the hope that in every such incident all parties of the Parliament unite against violence and let us remain with this pleasant message that we will always condemn” , emphasized the parliamentary representative of NIKI, Giorgos Tsironis.

“We agree with the president of the Parliament”, said the parliamentary representative of the “Spartans”, Thanasis Chalkias and added: “I would also like to condemn this event and all the events that have happened before in this room. They will always be condemned and reprehensible from our side, they are not suitable for parliamentarism and I want to have the hope that it will be the last event”.