“The country is experiencing a deeply institutional decline that bears the signature of the Prime Minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis,” he argues. Nikos Androulakis In an article in “Kathimerini” and submits five proposals to restore citizens’ confidence in institutions, as he notes.
In his article entitled: ‘Mitsotakis government crossed Rubicon of institutional arbitrariness “, the president of the PASOK-Main of Change is strongly criticized by the prime minister, a politician-as he comments-” who wore the reformer’s mask in 2019 and awarded a return to ‘regularity’ after the traumatic period of SYRIZA/ANEL governance.
“Returning to ‘regularity’, however, proved to be a deliberate deception. The Staff state functioned as a Trojan horse to establish the prime minister’s regime practices, “he notes. ‘He continued to use the state as a loot, as a customer management tool and opaque power centered on the Maximos Palace And with the aim of fully controlling the financial sources of the economy, manipulating institutional counterbalances and part of the media, “he adds.
Mr. Androulakis highlights That the people were expecting a radically different model of governance “after a lost decade for the country and younger generations because of the serious economic adventure we have experienced.” “At a time when the citizen is suffering from accuracy, rents in rent, electricity, supermarkets, some Mitsotakis government’s likes have made sure to maintain a permanent and open account with the public treasury,” he commented. He notes that “the OPEKEPE scandal is the tip of the iceberg: from the strengthening of the oligopolies and the privileged distribution of billions of euros in the recovery fund to the record of employees and the orgy of direct assignments”.
The PASOK president accuses the government of further doing “both the systematic weakening of institutional antibodies and the depreciation of the independence of justice”, that the prime minister ‘ignored court decisions, Like that of the CoE for the espionage scandal, and in many cases used the parliamentary majority to prevent the investigation of justice in mature files involving its ministers. ” It talks about the “emancipation” of the operation of the House with what happened last week.
Mr Androulakis emphasizes that “the prime minister has forgotten what he complained before 2019 and today behaves as if there are only enemies or obedient servants of Maximus”. On the other hand, he notes that PASOK who is struggling to become a “credible government progress” is determined to implement ‘Rules of citizens in institutions:
1. With a change in the way of choosing the leadership of justice, to cease to be a one -party choice.
2. By amending the law on the responsibility of ministers to stop the phenomena of immunity and impunity.
3. With the prohibition of taking public office for four years after the judges have been retired, in order to protect the independence of the judiciary.
4. In a coherent framework to put an end to the looting of public money: establishing a 5% ceiling on the value of direct assignments on all the credits of the contracting authority. Along with the abolition of relevant reports that limit the implementation of the ceiling -cutter to specific types of direct assignments and by reducing the maximum amount of direct assignments to EUR 20,000 (more VAT). In 2024 – according to official data – 76.7% of contracts were signed directly. In Greece, 55% of the competitions end up in only one offer, when the EU is 32%.
5. With a robust institutional framework for combating black political money. The case of funding the truth team by individuals is revealing. “
He notes that PASOK has submitted to the House most of these “structural reforms”, which “constitute interventions, which enhance democracy and the effectiveness of the state”, but the ND has denied their legislation.
Mr. Androulakis concludes that he argues that ‘Government’s credibility is in the nadir and its last attempt It is to drag with it the whole political world by sinking it into unreliability with unpredictable consequences for the country’s stability and perspective. ” He emphasizes, inter alia, that “PASOK until the day of national elections will give the struggle for political change, because the people require a change of cruise rather than the perpetuation of opacity and decline.”