House work will continue with 297 Members
Three Members of the “Spartans”including their leader Vasilis Stigas, They lost their parliamentary status by decision of the Court.
MPs Vassilis Stykas, Petros Dimitriadis and Alexandros Zervas lose their parliamentary seats and are outside the House.
House work will continue with 297 MPs as the elections have now become definitive and irrevocable and cannot be repeated.
The Court of Justice, unanimously, accepted the objections that had been filed against the three former MPs, considering that there was a deception of the voters as he was a subordinate leader of the “Spartans” was the convicted Golden Dawn leader, Elias.
The Court ruled that in view of the nature of the particular electoral infringement consisting of the deception of the voters with participation in the political party elections with a subordinate leader across the country, the repetition of voting in these constituencies becomes unnecessary.
The Court of Justice considered, among other things, the following:
Appeal to the annulment of a decision to proclaim Members and an alternate Member of the constituency due to the electoral infringement consisting of the deception of the electors in the sense that they participated in a political party with a subordinate leader who has already been convicted of the criminal act.
The case of the deception of the electors by the electoral combinations of political party with the underlying leader relates to the whole territory and in particular the constituencies in which MPs of the political party were proclaimed.
However, if the objection is challenged by the results of only certain or certain constituencies for other constituencies for which the elections have not been objected to the elections have become definitive and irrevocable.
The Court of Justice, therefore, is that in view of the nature of the particular electoral infringement consisting of the deception of the voters with participation in the political party elections with a subordinate leader throughout the territory, the repetition of voting in these constituencies becomes unnecessary.
The proclamation of the alternate MP of the same party in the constituency of the 2nd Thessaloniki is not permissible in view of the particularity of the particular electoral infringement concerning the political party in which the MP involved, whose election is canceled as well as the alternate.
Furthermore, the provisions of Law 345/1976 do not provide for a member of the declaration of a Member of Parliament in the case of a political party with a hypocritical leader who constitutes the electoral infringement of the deception of the electorate, the redistribution of the parliamentary headquarters to candidates for other political parties. The seats in question of the defendants remain blank.
It is recalled that about a month ago, the one -member Court of Appeals in Athens, adopting the relevant prosecutor’s proposal, acquitted all 11 current and former Spartan MPs from the Spartans by Class of the deception of voters with an accused of the perpetrator, Elias Kassidiaris, who was also found innocent.
However, a few days later the Public Prosecutor’s Office appealed against the acquittal as it was considered incorrect in its judgment, with the result that the case was led to a new crisis with the defendants sitting again in the dock.
Maria Zacharopoulou