By Helena Galaris

After three postponements, the trial of 11 former and current MPs began Spartanswho are accused of cheating voters with a moral perpetrator Elias Kassidiaris And a lawyer.

The party president has filed in court Vasilis Stigaswho in public statements had spoken of practices Greek Mafia and contacts of MPs with Elias Kassidiaris.

During his testimony, the witness “took back” what he had said against the party members, attributing his public statements to the .. he said, as he said, an information he had from extra -parliamentary agents.

“That day on my rage I said the well -known words about greek mafia. When I testified to Mrs Adeline, I did not name any Member of Parliament for illegal actions. I believe that every Member is obliged to carry out the parliamentary work. Then we talked and solved the misunderstandings. And then we did quite well. ”

PR: Didn’t they want to overturn you for another leader?

Stigas: Not that was pulled, extra -parliamentarians wanted it. There was a hatred for us Spartans.

Pr: About the complaints that there are some MPs who visit Mr Kassidiaris in prison and are taking instructions?

Skilis: I had told Mrs. Edelin that I had a lot of pressure. I accepted a lot of phone calls, they told me that they were doing some things. But afterwards because there were some discussions that had not been done. In times of intensity, some things can be said to an excessive degree. Proved to have nothing to do with

You are: Do you complain that party members are guided by Mr Kassidiaris?

Stock: Under no circumstances.

At the beginning of his testimony, the witness referred extensively to the establishment of the party and the selection of the people who would run throughout Greece.

“I went down to the repetitive elections on 25/6/23 the party was set up in December 2017. I was a strongly politicized person I made the party so that when conditions matured, I would go down to the political arena. 60 people went down to the elections … We were doing a quick pre -election campaign came the pre -election support from Mr Kassidiaris. Because I didn’t have much political power, I met some to participate in the elections. I did not know if they had a direct relationship with Kassidiaris. ”

PR: Was this support something sudden?

Mart: I don’t know Mr. Kassidiaris, he was welcome, it wasn’t anything. Even my friend Leventis and was telling me I want to help you and I had public support I wouldn’t deny it. Anyone who wants to help I will not prevent it. This does not mean that the percentage we received comes from Mr. Kassidiaris. It does not mean that we had a relationship, that our ideologies are identified. For so many years I was in the political arena I had my acquaintances. ”

Mr Stykas in his testimony spoke of a ruthless war he received after his election by extra -parliamentary agents.

“From the first days I was under pressure from extra -parliamentary agents, they were either individual citizens or supposedly or real journalists. All this pressure was expected to influence MPs and the surroundings. All of this was causing me pressure to say “Stiying Your Statute is perforated we will go to the prosecutor” …

I was accepting heavy insults, there was a journalist who was finding me before the election, and after my election he used to say Santa Claus to put me in a spokesman …. There was an unbearable pressure and reports that said Stigas had found them with ND. This was a problem with Members. There were other publications that created more tension with the Members. They said that the stigas took a million from Mitsotakis’ family … Another post: Stykas went to Maximou, was ordered by Mitsotakis to support Patoulis. There was frightening pressure. There was a tension we didn’t let us do what we wanted, to hear problems of the world. ”

Referring to Elias Kassidiaris, the president of the Spartans argued that the only communication he had with him was in the elections he wished him good luck. He has never spoken again.

The category attributed to them is that MPs have been deceived. That is, Mr Kassidiaris chose them, they obeyed him. Is it true?

F: I didn’t know them very well, they brought each other. But they were not intended to overthrow me. I didn’t mean that Katsivardas in statements he had made in the peristyle wanted me to overthrow me. Mr. Metaxas I don’t know if he went to prisons. Since he was a lawyer he had the right to go. He had the noble goodness to give me an office to make the statements.

EN: So now you say that the electors were not deceived? That Kassidiaris was not behind you.

Stock: Under no circumstances. From the first moment I lowered the party to the election, I am the party president. There could be front and then this front has no reason. I had said in my statements from the beginning that the only president was me and no one else. There was no action by MPs that they didn’t recognize me for a leader. Excesses will be heard on the tensions. The march showed either with Members or with the independent that there was no problem. “