Shortly after midnight and by vote for the establishment of a pre -trial committee for his case OPECEPE be in full swing, the PASOK He expressed a desire to postpone the vote, bringing new tensions and confrontations to the already charged atmosphere of the House.
The debate, which had begun in the afternoon, went through severe political controversy with its parliamentary representative ND, Noti Mitarakito denounce PASOK for a conscious effort to “strengthen” the completion of the meeting. “ND is present and represented by its parliamentary representative“, Mr Mitarakis said, adding that the plenary of the House is operating properly and there is no question for the majority.
Respectively, the Nikos Pappas by SYRIZAtaking the floor, he said: ‘Do you find it reasonable for the majority to be absent and voted by letter? You are exposed. Refuse to answer, your leader is hiding and raising a matter of validity of the processยป.
These controversy began to take on dimensions when earlier information began to leak information about the consultations that took place behind the closed doors of the House. According to the first reports, there was a strong rumor that several ND MPs were thinking of abstaining from the vote to set up the pre -trial committee for former ministers Maki Voridis and Lefteris Avgenakis.
The situation was exacerbated when information was heard that SYRIZA and New left They were discussing the possibility of withdrawing their own proposal for pre -trial, with the aim of not being politically “burn”. This strategy, according to parliamentary observers, provided for the withdrawal of the proposal if not at least 151 votes were gathered by opposition parties. Failure to achieve this number of votes would result in the loss of the right of opposition parties to come back with a new request for a pre -trial committee.
This backdrop created a sense of the corridors of the House, enhancing the sense of political uncertainty, and strengthened the gloomy atmosphere, as political movements seem to have moved out of the obvious institutional processes.