Fierce is the confrontation that has broken out between New Democracy and PaSoK over ASEP. Harilaou Trikoupi’s party was criticized by the government because it did not vote for the bill that the government brought to Parliament with PaSoK to emphasize that he has voted for the articles of the bill concerning recruitment.
The conflict continued after today Nikos Androulakis met the chairman of the Board of Directors. of ASEP, accusing the government that “instead of contributing to the correction of procedural problems, it created new ones”. “The result of the government’s continued mistakes is that thousands of people are being held hostage. They have lost time, money and unfortunately they don’t see the light at the end of the tunnel” noted the President of PaSoK regarding the winners of 2023″.
Confrontation between Marinakis and Tsoukalas
The gauntlet was raised by the government representative who attacked Nikos Androulakis saying that “Mr. Androulakis of the Parliament last week voted against the bill for the acceleration of recruitment through ASEP, while also in his first term as president of PaSoK he voted against it last November the bill for the selection of administrators in the State through ASEP”. He added that today Mr. Androulakis visited ASEP complaining to the government about delays in recruitment.
“He himself, a few 24 hours earlier, had voted against the bill with the specific provisions, which aim at the faster completion of the recruitment process in the State”. “Which Androulakis should we believe? Of the Parliament, of Charilaou Trikoupis or maybe neither of them?”, concluded Mr. Marinakis.
The baton was taken by the representative of PASOK, Kostas Tsoukalas, who responded to the government representative in high tones. “The Government Spokesman, in his anxiety to justify the Government’s failure in matters of transparency and meritocracy, was caught unread,” he noted. He explained that “PASOK voted for every provision, which served to facilitate recruitment”.
Mr. Tsoukalas wondered if “Mr. Marinakis can answer why 32 amendments were needed to the 2021 law, which has failed miserably?” When we talk about meritocracy, transparency and good administration, Greek society certainly does not believe Mr. Mitsotakis.”
New cycle of confrontation
A little while later, a response came from the Government. “The new press representative of PASOK in a statement adopted all the bad practices of an irresponsible opposition, first and foremost the formulation of lies, which are disproved with a simple visit to the website of the Hellenic Parliament”, government sources respond with clear points to Kostas Tsoukalas.
“History has written that PASOK initially voted against a bill that addressed key issues for the operation and effectiveness of ASEP. But even on the articles, Mr. Androulakis’s party did not vote, among many other things, for the increase in locality quotas for all mountainous and island municipalities, but also for the increased right of permanent residents to occupy the permanent positions as a priority personnel available on the islands”, the same sources note.
And they conclude: “PASOK’s right to choose its path of “no to everything”, even to what everyone agrees is in the interest of every citizen from one end of the country to the other. On the contrary, to try to justify his position in retrospect, by presenting black as white, refers to times we all want to leave behind.”
The answer did not take long to come from Mr. Tsoukalas: “The Government Spokesperson was apparently informed by those who exposed him that what he said about PASOK not passing the provisions, which served to speed up recruitment, had nothing to do with reality.
He backfired and turned into mere “government sources”, who speak of a vote against the principle of the bill and the provisions to increase locality scoring which as everyone understands, have nothing to do with the acceleration of hiring that he mentioned in his initial statement. The correction is welcome. Finally, is there an answer why the government brought 32 amendments to the 2021 law?”
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