The meeting of the Conference of Presidents was another episode in the ongoing project entitled “Irresponsible and harmful opposition”
Violent criticism of the opposition parties, primarily against PASOK and secondarily against SYRIZA, for not voting for Dimitris Sotiropoulos for the position of Ombudsman in the context of the Conference of Presidents, was made by the Deputy Minister to the Prime Minister and government representative Pavlos in a written statement Marinakis.
The country will continue to march with a “no to everything” opposition
Pavlos Marinakis pointed out that “the attitude of SYRIZA is considered to be expected by the vast majority of Greek society. On the contrary, the attitude of PASOK is another example that the supposed change of attitude and mentality of Mr. Androulakis after his re-election will remain an unfulfilled promise and the country will continue to march with an opposition of “no to everything”.
The entire announcement Marinaki
“Today’s meeting of the Conference of Presidents in the Parliament was another episode in the ongoing project entitled “Irresponsible and harmful opposition”, which has been unfolding before the eyes of the Greek citizens for years and apparently will continue.
More specifically, the President of the Hellenic Parliament, Mr. Konstantinos Tasoulas, proposed as a new Ombudsman Mr. Dimitris Sotiropoulos, distinguished academic, professor of political science at the Greek National University of Athens and partner of the Special Observatory of the LSE. Mr. Sotiropoulos in no way comes from the center-right and is a person of known prestige and proven scientific competence.
Unfortunately, the proposal of the President of the Parliament was not accepted, because the increased majority of 3/5 required by law was not achieved. The proposal for Mr. Sotiropoulos received 15 of the 29 votes, ie only the votes of the New Democracy Parliamentary Group.
SYRIZA and PASOK followed a common stance, voting “present” and are in fact responsible for the non-election of a new Ombudsman and in fact more than 2 years after the end of the term of the previous one.
The most infuriating thing was the excuse they gave for this common attitude. They pretended that the election of Dimitris Sotiropoulos would endanger the Ombudsman’s investigations into the Pylos wreck.
Apart from the fact that nowhere does it appear that the election of a new Prosecutor would in any way call into question or endanger these investigations and bypassing the fact that these justifications are directly offensive to the proposed Ombudsman, it is crucial to point out that Mr. Tasoulas had spoken for the first time about the need to elect a new Ombudsman, due to the expiry of the term of the previous one, before the announcement of the start of investigations into the wreck of Pylos which was made on 9.11.2023.
The attitude of SYRIZA is considered by the vast majority of Greek society to be expected. On the contrary, the attitude of PASOK is another example that the supposed change of attitude and mentality of Mr. Androulakis after his re-election will remain an unfulfilled promise and the country will continue to march with an opposition of “no to everything”.
Source: Skai
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