An attack on the president of SYRIZA-PS, Stefanos Kasselakis, in the background of the verbal attacks of the MEP of the party of Nikos Pappas, but also because of the official opposition party’s announcement about the swimming pool at his country house in Spetses, the government official released in a statement representative, Pavlos Marinakis.

Specifically, Mr. Marinakis states:

“For three days, SYRIZA has been “disappeared” and even more so its President Stefanos Kasselakis. The one who would bring new morals to politics has not a single word to say about the revelations about the vulgar verbal attacks and threats of MEP N. Pappas, which have taken the form of an avalanche.

Instead, he chose to come forward today with an announcement about his illegal pool that insults the intelligence of every citizen.

As the Ministry of Culture stated in its statement: “According to the existing institutional framework and jurisprudence, there is an archaeological illegality when a swimming pool is built within the protected by archaeological legislation – thus also the Ministry of Culture – settlement of Spetses, where the house of President of Mr. St. Kasselakis.

The 1978 license cited by SYRIZA does not concern a swimming pool, but a septic tank, i.e. a cesspool. The transformation of the septic tank into a swimming pool, in 2024, apparently requires a permit from the competent services of the Ministry of Culture. Given the permission of the YPPO, a permit is subsequently issued by the Town Planning Department.

The autopsy report, which SYRIZA cites, has not yet been hierarchically submitted to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, while the audit is still ongoing.”

Mr. Kasselakis, you must understand that you are not addressing natives. No matter how much you think of yourself, your house is not an archaeological site and you are not inspected for antiquities. You are being checked because the island of Spetses is classified as a historical site and the settlement is protected. You are being checked for a planning offence, whether your swimming pool, or water tank, or cesspool, or whatever you decide to call it today, was legally built».

SYRIZA’s announcement: “Coal is the treasure”

“The inspection carried out yesterday at the residence of Stefanos Kasselakis in Spetses by a team of the Ephorate of Antiquities of Piraeus and the Islands did not detect any illegality from an archaeological point of view, as the dimensions of the “swimming pool” are completely identical to the plans submitted to the Archaeological Service in 1978.

In other words, despite the noise created, “coal is the treasure”.

It is of course understandable that “the control continues” and that the “sources” of the Ministry of Culture have received an order from above to maintain in the public a matter that was made up from the beginning. Much more likely, that the result of yesterday’s autopsy did not satisfy the “sources” of the government.

After all, it is known to everyone who is the one and only authentic “source” of the now daily toxicity operation in the political life of the country: Kyriakos Mitsotakis. If you consider how much mud and slander he spewed on his way from 41% to 28%, you realize what is going to happen now that the decline is accelerating leading to the complete political discredit of his government.

In any case:

1) We welcome the speed of the Ministry of Culture. If the “staff” state had shown similar speed in dealing with disasters, Attica would have been saved. Also, we hope that Ms. Mendoni has shown similar zeal and has sent the Archaeological Service for an autopsy to the house of her advisor, Ms. Panagiotarea, in Plaka.

2) The finding that there is no archaeological illegality irreparably exposes the government, Pavlos Marinakis, the MPs and all ND officials who rushed to uncritically adopt the (as it turns out) subliminal publication of the First Topic. Let them find something else to hit the President of SYRIZA, St. Kasselakis.

3) It is not only unprecedented but also dangerous the reference of the “sources” of the Ministry of Culture that the 1978 license “cannot be valid”. This particular reference, in addition to having no basis in law and creating legal uncertainty for citizens, it also shows how the government thinks and works: if reality doesn’t satisfy it, reality has the problem…

PS Let Kyriakos Mitsotakis therefore stop targeting his political opponent. The booty state, its administrative inadequacy and its well-crafted propaganda, have made the political life of the country…a septic tank”.

The response of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to the announcement of SYRIZA

The Ministry of Culture responded through an official announcement to a previous announcement by SYRIZA regarding the swimming pool of Stefanos Kasselakis at his villa in Spetses, regarding the cesspool license from 1978, which became the subject of repeated shots after an inspection by a team of the Antiquities Authority of Piraeus and Islands .

“According to the existing institutional framework and jurisprudence, there is an archaeological illegality when a swimming pool is built within the Spetses settlement, which is protected by the archaeological legislation – thus also the Ministry of Culture – where the house of the president of SYRIZA, Mr. St. Kasselakis”, says a statement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

According to the Ministry of Culture, “the license of 1978, invoked by SYRIZA, does not concern a swimming pool, but a septic tank, i.e. a cesspool”, “the conversion of the septic tank into a swimming pool, in 2024, obviously requires a license from the relevant services Ministry of Culture”, and the “autopsy report, which SYRIZA invokes, has not yet been hierarchically submitted to the Ministry of Culture, while the audit is still ongoing”.

The latest announcement by the Ministry of Culture in detail:

It is obvious that the Press Office of SYRIZA-Progressive Alliance is either unable to understand what “illegality from an archaeological point of view” means, or is deliberately hiding it, in its attempt to mislead public opinion.

According to the existing institutional framework and jurisprudence, there is an archaeological illegality, when a swimming pool is built within the Spetses settlement, which is protected by the archaeological legislation – thus also the Ministry of Culture – where the house of the President of Mr. St. Kasselakis.

The 1978 license cited by SYRIZA does not concern a swimming pool, but a septic tank, i.e. a cesspool. The transformation of the septic tank into a swimming pool, in 2024, apparently requires a permit from the competent services of the Ministry of Culture. Given the permission of the YPPO, a permit is subsequently issued by the Town Planning Department.

The autopsy report, cited by SYRIZA, has not yet been hierarchically submitted to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, while the audit is still ongoing. Let them not rush. Let them wait for the decision of the competent public services.