In one of his latest Briefing, the government spokesman was called upon to comment on the start of the Constitution’s revisionist process following the prime minister’s announcements: “I think that the debate on the constitutional review and the attitude they have already begun and show that they will have one of the parties.” which never in the past appeared to have a decisive influence on the vote of the electorate.
In essence, after Kyriakos Mitsotakis, the government spokesman started pressing in the opposition parties, especially in PASOK, implying that if they do not consent to what articles put on the table for revision the government in today’s proposal will be evaluated by a part of a part. The prime minister’s own wording was clear when in his recent radio interview he said to Harilaou Trikoupi that “the constitutional review process itself will be a first -and -white test” with the wish “PASOK not to come to this article,” In the next House to form their content by simple majority. “
This is also the “key” to the government’s anxiety that is seeking as Kyriakos Mitsotakis already said, to obtain PASOK’s consensus. That based on the Constitution, if the articles proposed for revision do not garner 180 votes then and in the next House, the review, at least 180 votes will be required to form the content of the articles to be amended. The PASOK leadership, who knows that the government, not the opposition parties, are being tested in a revisionist process, does not intend to make the Mitsotakis government to vote in favor, in the proposed parliament in order to give it the right to format the content of the articles.
The example of how the New Democracy has taken advantage of the relevant provisions in the previous revision of the Constitution is fresh. He voted in the first process of articles proposed by the SYRIZA government to change, such as the way the President of the Republic was elected and the disconnection of his election from the dismantling of the House and the call for elections, and when he took over as a government in the revivalry of the article, he was amended by the article. As was the case with the new President Konstantinos Tasoula.
Mr Mitsotakis has already said that Articles 16 (Public Education), 24 (Forests, Residential), 86 (Ministers’ Liability Law) and 103 (abolition of public permanence) will change. And if for the first three PASOK may enter the debate by submitting its own proposals for Article 103, which relates to the abolition of permanence for civil servants and is linked and evaluated it has expressed serious objections. And the rationale of PASOK’s leadership is that in the case of officials who need to be removed from the State there is legislation that covers such situations. He is in favor of evaluating the State, but put in terms and conditions that create safety valves for both the judges and their evaluators.
Also, the government does not show at least at least a special warmth for the constitutional guarantee of how the Supreme Judges are selected- which PASOK is seeking to change- and not in any way be selected by a decision of the Council of Ministers.
It is obviously early to say how the process of revising the Constitution will evolve that, according to Mr Mitsotakis, will begin around the end of 2025. The parties will submit their proposals, mediate consultations, and show in the course of how many concessions will want to do. However, from the first reactions, it seems that the opposition will not easily allow the prime minister to leave his stamp in the Constitution, which he said he wanted to happen when he partially revealed his plans.