By Gifts Antoniou

On Saturday, August 2nd, government officials and MPs are circled on the calendar as a start date of the summer escape. The established fortnight break until August 15 is expected to be adhered to this year. Everything shows that developments in the House in relation to OPECEPE will “run” faster and have been completed by then. Today, the government’s proposal for the establishment of an Inquiry Committee is also expected to be formally submitted, and the proposals from PASOK and SYRIZA – New Left have already been submitted yesterday. Maki Voridis and Lefteris Avgenakis.

The field for the controversy in and out of the House has already been shaped, as well as the issues on which the expected harsh political confrontation will evolve. The first and nodal theme is The period of investigation. The government describes in its proposal the need to deal with the work of the Examination of the whole OPEKEPE period from 1998 until today. What is essentially seeking the majority and is already described through public positions of government officials, is to reflect through the committee’s work that all the mechanism that allowed OPEKEPE to develop a mechanism of mismanagement, corruption and disrupting Community resources in 2019. ND, that is, what is being investigated today was developed on territory and conditions that were shaped by the previous governments.

The opposition, for its part, sees behind this option attempt to conceal, in the sense that a very specific case file has reached the House, which concerns specific politicians and actions that have unfolded at a specific period of time.

Second field of controversy is the offenses. There is no specific element in the case file in the case file that justifies an investigation of a particular offense. The distance is obviously huge between this position and the opposition’s view that there are criminal responsibilities and need to be investigated.

On this issue, the next big issue of conflict has been built on this issue In the issue of limitation. The government here argues that there is absolutely no issue of limitation of ministerial responsibility after the 2019 constitutional review. Opposition parties, however, refer to a specific reference to the European Public Prosecutor’s case, that Mr Voridis is limited to October 6. They also argue that the establishment of a substantive examination will depreciate any category of Mr Avgenakis, as if not set up pre -trial and the case closes with the examination finding that there is no reason, there can never be responsibility for this case and the person.

The government is calling on opposition parties to vote for the proposal for an examination and argues that the road to pre -trial pre -trial, if sufficient data arises, is open. At the political level, in some ways it seeks to trap the opposition parties. If they do not support the setting up examination, they will denounce them for a reluctance to investigate their own governments. If they support it, it will be able to rely on the recognition of the correctness of its choice for examination, regardless of the outcome. It is discounted that none of the sides will support the proposal of the other and the only question in the votes concerns the attitude of parties and independent MPs who have not signed any of the proposals.