The “anniversary” of ten years of 2015 referendum He left, but the question marks regarding the minutes of the Council of Political Leaders on Monday, July 6, 2015, remain, if not increased, regarding the recording, loyalty and … guarding of what was said behind the closed doors of the presidential mansion, after and by them. statements of two consecutive presidents of the Republic, of Prokopis Pavlopoulos and her Katerina Sakellaropoulou which have highlighted a number of issues that seem technically, but they contain political substance.
Was there any practical ones?
A key issue, but also a field of confrontation between the protagonists of the time and the political parties is whether:
· Have been practically, Such as to cover all the long discussion in the Council of Political Heads, but also
· To bear the approval of the participants At the meeting, through their signature. That is, officially practically, of a long discussion, which began at 9am on Monday, July 6, 2015 and ended (with vacations) early in the afternoon.
For his part, the issue was raised on the eve of the referendum anniversary by the former prime minister, Alexis Tsipras demanding that the minutes be released, referring to an urgent need to shed light on all aspects of the events of that period. In fact, Mr Tsipras said that in the minutes “They include the views of all parties, their estimates of the referendum and its outcome, but also on the strategy that the Greek government should follow to exit the homeland of bankruptcy,” wanting to emphasize the consistency of his words.
‘We didn’t sign any relevant text’
On the other hand, “that day, but all the following, the leaders did not sign any relevant text. Nor did we have any practitioner signatures anywhere, “the then head of the river told” Kathimerini “, Stavros Theodorakis, pointing to the importance of publicizing the audio document itself by the Council of Political Leaders. “You can remove – or add – whatever you want from a folder. To heroize your “own”, to degrade the role of your “opponents” – everything is done if we are talking about scattered A4 pages. In the audio, however, the extras, that is, the editing, can be detected technically very easily, “added Mr. Theodorakis.
Is there the audio documentary?
Positioned to the knowledge of the existence of an audio documentary, “I never received the audio of the practices” the former President of the Republic told the News, the former President of the Republic, Katerina Sakellaropoulou. She also described that “the minutes of the July 6th meeting were not kept in the safe of the Secretary General, but in the office of the President of the Republic.” “I then handed them over to the then Secretary -General to get into the safe, along with the rest, because I thought it was reasonable to keep them all together. These minutes were not accompanied by an audio file, it is only the written, unsigned text ‘, Ms. Sakellaropoulou ended.
In response to his successor, the former President of the Republic, Prokopis Pavlopoulos He noted that these minutes were observed by the competent, specialized and appropriately equipped service of the Hellenic Parliament. ” Mr Pavlopoulos argues that there was a process of transcribing the audio documentary, saying that “The above -mentioned transcripts were transcribed by this service and sent, in a written form, to guard the Presidency of the Republic, without being accompanied by a corresponding audio presumption.” “Then they were practically and forwarded in writing to the Presidency of the Republic, but not accompanied, in any way, by a corresponding audio presumption,” continues Mr Pavlopoulos, reinforcing the absence of the audio documentary, concluding that “because of the institutional nature of the Council of the Council. to that. “
Looking for the… lost sound
With the two former presidents of the Republic converging in the absence of a sound documentary, whether or not today exists and that the tapes from the tapes placed on the table of the political leaders still concern the participants, as they can be the only one.
Are the minutes released or not?
Legal circles, however, argued on protothema.gr that the Council of Political Heads is an informal body and as such does not oblige but does not prohibit the publication of its practices. However, the process of conservation of practices is provided for the collective bodies of the administration, in Article 15 of Law 2690/1999, which describes that “for the meetings of the collective body, a report shall be drawn up, in particular, the names and status of the members present, the time and the time of the members, The results of the vote and the decisions taken. “
“In the case of a simple opinion body meeting, all the individual opinions expressed and put into the vote is compulsorily recorded in the relevant report,” which concludes that “the report is drawn up by the Secretary and ratified by the President” and “his signature” Even if this provision relates to the operation of the Collective Administration Bodies and not the Council of Political Heads, it still reflects a “culture” regarding the minutes, as it is noted, without making the above procedure compulsory, at the historic meeting the day after the referendum.