The withdrawal of the amendment on how to elect metropolitans in Crete asked the Zoe Konstantopoulou arguing that it is an intervention inside the church.
“You do not want to be elected Metropolitan of Chania the current Metropolitan of Kissamos,” said the president of the Freedom of Freedom, arguing that “the amendment is a raw intervention by the Mitsotakis government”.
For its part, the Minister of Education Sofia Zacharaki He said that the regulation was coming to interpret the existing provisions and that the amendment was forwarded to parliament after correspondence with the Ecumenical Patriarchate.
“There is no intention of intervention. We do not legislate in the void. An interpretive provision was requested by the Patriarchate, “the minister said.