By Penelope Galliou
He called on the opposition parties not to undermine or tarnish the image of a leader of a country that is being attacked at enormous humanitarian cost, he reportedly said. the Speaker of Parliament Costas Tassoulas at the Conference of Presidents of Parliament.
Trying to calm down the reactions provoked by the presence of the fighter of the Azov Order, konline hosting in the Greek Parliament of Ukrainian President Volodymyr ZelenskyCostas Tassoulas allegedly characterized as a huge mistake in trying to reduce the big picture and facilitate Russian propaganda.
During the Conference of Speakers of Parliament, the opposition parties demanded explanations from the Speaker of Parliament for the video shown with the Ukrainian fighter, with Mr. Tassoulas reportedly stating that he had been informed a few minutes before Zelenski’s intervention that there would be a video of two soldiers of Greek descent, without giving him further details. The same information conveyed that the information from the Ukrainian Embassy was that “two of you describe the hardships they are experiencing” meaning two Ukrainians of Greek origin.
What happened
“We were not informed about the content of the videos that were presented during the speech of the Ukrainian President in the Greek Parliament”, clarified sources close to the Speaker of the Parliament, as well as that there were no time limits in advance or during the relevant audit. . He even added that the company that was responsible for the entire connection with Ukraine as well as for the translators was responsible, since in Athens no translator was found who could translate directly from Ukrainian to Greek.
How the process was organized
The whole process of the “online hosting” of the Ukrainian President in the national delegation was complicated. The choice of the company that undertook to “run” the entire program for the Greek Parliament, was based on the fact that it had two translators abroad who translated from Ukrainian into English and two in Greece, who translated from English into Greek.
The Parliament, according to parliamentary sources, was informed through this company just ten minutes before the scheduled start time of the intervention of the Ukrainian President. The video with the two Ukrainian fighters had gone to the company and from there it was broadcast. The material had not been sent to the Parliament channel.
The information that the Parliament had, in fact, said that Volodymyr Zelensky during his speech would also present the placement of two Ukrainian fighters of Greek origin.
The opposition – which demanded the raw material of the video from the intervention of Zelenski and the two soldiers – also asked the Speaker of Parliament to publicly express his dissatisfaction with the course of events and blamed him for not following the intervention of Zelenski expressed the slightest disapproval.
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