Nikos Androulakis launched a fierce attack on the Government during his speech on the bill that brings amendments to the Criminal Code. The president of PaSoK raised the gauntlet in a report made by Kyriakos Mitsotakis and referred to the withdrawal of the party from the commission of inquiry for Tempi.
Initially, Mr. Androulakis stated: “Today we are not discussing any reform, but the enactment of criminal populism. Once again the communication wrapper is far from reality. For the umpteenth time in 5 years, your government is amending the Criminal Codes based solely on the needs of current affairs.”
At another point in his speech he emphasized: “It is original for a government that has ruled the country for almost half a decade to appear before public opinion not only as blameless but also as a supposedly reliable guarantor of the doctrine of “law and order”.
The government, instead of implementing an organized plan to fight crime, horizontally increases the penalties, as if that alone is enough, to change the image of the complete failure to respond to the citizens’ demand for security. It is your choice that those with sentences of more than 2 years, including those who owe money to the public or social security funds, now go to prison.”.
“He prefers sloppiness”
According to Nikos Androulakis “the Criminal Codes Bill abolishes and shrinks institutional guarantees and procedures of the criminal trial that have been in place for 100 years, favoring sloppiness and a fast track criminal trial”. He pointed out that the observations of 39 law school professors in the country were ignored, underlining: “Many provisions of the draft law raise serious issues of compatibility with the Constitution and the European Convention on Human Rights.”
“Major reforms are not drawn up by a Minister in collaboration with two deputized officials, but by law-preparatory committees”, asserted the president of PASOK-KINAL.
Nikos Androulakis extended his sharp criticism of the degradation of the rule of law, to which he said how the present bill also contributes.
“We will not turn a blind eye to carbine scandals”
He then responded to the comment made by Kyriakos Mitsotakis in an interview, accusing him and PASOK of having a plan to cut resources from Greece. Mr. Androulakis said: “Therefore, I do not accept any criticism for our faction. But we will not close our eyes to carbine scandals and to everything that affects the rule of law and human rights. No matter how much Mr. Mitsotakis is bothered.
Just as we did not cooperate with the government’s use of the investigative committee of the Communist Party to cover up its minister, that is why our MPs left the mock committee yesterday.
You put in the drawer the file of the European public prosecutor’s office on remote control, which is proven that if it had been installed on the railway network we would not have mourned 57 of our fellow human beings”.
Further escalating his attack on the government for the rule of law, he asked: “why are you leaving a window of unpursued criminal infidelity until March 30th. Who are you protecting?’
“PIhow is it almost possible that justice has not summoned Mr. Dimitriadis»
For the independence of the leadership of the judiciary, which, as Mr. Androulakis said, the European Commission has committed itself to “PASOK will propose to change this in the upcoming constitutional revision! To strengthen the separation of powers and stop your games with justice. Because what you are doing, SYRIZA also did, with the judiciary.
And because Mr. Prime Minister is wondering where and how MEPs criticize the administration of justice in our country. They read the foreign press, which follows and writes about what has happened in Greece in recent years.
It makes an impression on them – as it does on us – that it is possible almost two years after the revelation of the wiretapping scandal that the judiciary has not summoned Mr. Dimitriadis, the businessmen, the commander of the EYP. So you think this has gone through the fine print?
Does it not impress the European Parliament and the European institutions that almost two years after the revelation of the scandal, the key person has not been summoned by the Greek judiciary and you wonder where they learn from and what do the MEPs know? They read what is happening in Greece and for which you are absolutely responsible”he emphasized addressing the Minister of Justice, George Floridis.
He invited him to adopt PASOK’s amendment according to which, for four years after the termination of the service relationship, judicial officials are prohibited from being appointed to public positions of responsibility.
“Farmers have not found a reliable interlocutor”
Nikos Androulakis closed his speech by welcoming yesterday’s impressive nationwide rally of farmers in Syntagma: “The tractors entered the center of Athens and left. Unfortunately, without our farmers finding a reliable interlocutor on behalf of the government. It is your own National Strategic Plan for the CAP, which you wrote and you negotiated in Brussels, that created all the problems in the primary sector and you do nothing to solve them.
For PASOK, support for farmers and the primary sector as a whole is not a flag of opportunity. The primary sector is the basis for a productive and outward-looking economy, where tourism will be fully connected to manufacturing and agri-food, as envisioned by PASOK. For us, the support of the agricultural world is a condition for the demographic, social and economic regeneration of the Greek region”.
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