MP Angeliki Adamopoulou became independent from MERA 25. She has sent a letter to the Speaker of Parliament announcing her decision.
According to information, she had internally expressed her complaints that she was being undermined by the party.
In a sharp post on twitter, the leader of the party, Giannis Varoufakis, commented on Ms. Adamopoulou’s decision, writing: her party … now that they smell elections. On Women’s Day we are on the streets – for women not for office “
With a clear conscience, that no party has stood by its MP like MERA25 to Angeliki Adamopoulou, I wish her every success in her new party … now that elections have smelled. On Women’s Day we are on the streets – for women not for office
– Yanis Varoufakis (@yanisvaroufakis) March 8, 2022
The letter of independence of Mrs. Adamopoulou to the Speaker of the Parliament in detail:
“Mr President,
I hereby wish to inform you of my intention to leave the MEPA25 parliamentary group and become independent.
In the more than two and a half years of my term as a member of the Athens National Assembly of MERA25, I consider that I have clearly proved my diligence, militancy, dynamism and active presence inside and outside parliament. I have vigorously and responsibly participated in a number of debates on bills as a simple and specific speaker and as a parliamentary representative; I have participated in numerous committee and subcommittee meetings; electronic media; I stood unmoved by my fellow citizens and highlighted their problems in my repeated public interventions. I faithfully served the positions of the modern Left with a clear patriotic orientation, I promoted proposals for a better and fairer Greece, I defended the rule of law, equality and humanity. In this way, I contributed with consistency, seriousness, and a sense of duty to the improvement of the public image of MERA25 and to the strengthening of the party’s resonance among the citizens. Finally, I have always been polite, friendly and cooperative, and the only thing I “caused” all this time was a completely sham and communicative lifting of my parliamentary immunity, for which the irrevocable decision of Justice revealed the fiasco orchestrated by ND.
However, with great sadness and escalating frustration I observe almost immediately after the 2019 elections and gradually until today, MERA25 is being transformed internally from a multi-collection and polyphonic collective into a closed club of the elite. Unfortunately, the leadership of MERA25 and specifically its well-liked executives try daily, authoritarian and arbitrary to impose themselves without dialogue and without procedures. For reasons of decency, I do not want to expand on specific incidents and feed the pervasive media cannibalism of our time. However, I owe it to my fellow citizens to state publicly that MERA25 shows a serious lack of democracy, meritocracy, equality, responsibility, and transparency, an excess of family rule and nepotism, an excess of discrimination in favor of certain MPs and executives, and is completely opposed to principles as well as to my personal and political value system. In short, the alienation of MERA25 in its own ideological and moral core and the ownership logic of its factor oligarchy have completely alienated me for a long time.
As an independent MP from today, I wish MERA25 to find the strength, the sincerity, and the way to return to the pure and high ideals that a few years ago united in a fist all those of us who unhesitatingly supported the vision for a fairer Greece in a fairer world. “Finally, I assure everyone – and especially the people who honored me with their vote – that I will continue with the same intensity my parliamentary work and my political action for a better life for the people of our country.”
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