By Yannis Anifantis

In an electrified atmosphere and with constant episodes, the debate on the demands of the opposition parties is being held in the Parliament’s Institutions and Transparency committee to be called in order to be examined by the members of the committee, the prosecutor of the Supreme Court, Georgia Adelini, and to transmit the conclusion on the surveillance.

The committee rejected the requests of the five opposition parties to summon a prosecutor of the Supreme Court and transmit a conclusion.

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The political confrontation started from the beginning of the meeting, with Zoi Konstantopoulou disagreeing on procedural issues, asking for more time for the positions of the committee members, provoking the reaction of the president Thanasis Bouras. The dialogue is illustrative:

LIFE OF KONSTANTOPOULOS: It is clear that an attempt is underway to forcefully close the commission. We ask with plenty of time to position ourselves.

THANASIS BOURAS: You have no more to say.

LIFE OF KONSTANTOPOULOS: Don’t interrupt me! Don’t make sense because they called you.

THANASIS BOURAS: You have no more reason to. Because I say so.

LIFE OF KONSTANTOPOULOS: So many MPs are asking for the floor and you have come to do the washing up.

THANASIS BOURAS: I could make the decision myself, but the committee will make it. Know that you will not overshadow me. Know that. I have a loud voice too. The bad thing is that I blush. Let the committee function democratically.

SIDE: “Manifestly unconstitutional request”

Then Thanos Pleuris took the floor from the side of the majority, speaking of a “manifestly unconstitutional request and at the expense of the Rules of Procedure of the Parliament”. “I am sorry that the applications are made by people who know the law. A first-year student would have been cut,” emphasized the ND deputy, adding: “according to Article 26 of the Constitution, there is a separation of powers. We carry out legislative work, the judges do judicial work. Whenever the constitutional legislator wanted to give judicial work to the Parliament, he set conditions. Article 43A of the Criminal Code allows the summoning of a prosecutor for matters of the operation of institutions to enhance security and not the control of judicial decisions. You submit a request for a prosecutor to come for a case he handled. It is challenging to talk about the rule of law and not realize that you have submitted a request that the Parliament is going to be above the judiciary. You are requesting that a preliminary examination report be forwarded to an open criminal trial, ignoring basic rules of the Criminal Procedure Code.”

JAKRI: “The majority’s denial constitutes a cover-up”

On the part of the official opposition, Theodora Tzakri argued that SYRIZA does not ask for the control of the prosecutor but for information from the prosecutor’s office. “We were informed by the press release. This is not an update. The majority’s refusal to summon the 2 public prosecutors constitutes a cover-up and contempt for democratic institutions. All documents must be called and forwarded. “Mr. Pleuris’ attempt to downgrade the issue as such a subject for the first year of law must be reversed. It concerns the core of the prestige of the judicial power, whose prestige is suffering a significant blow”, asserted Panagiotis Doudonis, taking the floor, underlining that “when you issue a press release, you must come to the Parliament”, referring to the Supreme Court prosecutor. “We consider that all of this is part of the overall framework of the majority to cover up the huge wiretapping scandal,” said Mr. Karathanasopoulos from the KKE.

The meeting will end with a vote on the opposition’s demands.