«Constitutional reviewchallenges and traps’ were at the heart of the discussion, which took place in the context of the 10th Delphi Economic Forum which takes place from April 9 to 12.
Need a revision of the Constitution and what range? It was the key question asked by the panel coordinator, Fai Makantasis Research Director at Dianeosis.
The answers were asked by the four special guests. The former President of the Republic, Katerina Sakellaropoulou, Foreign Minister George Gerapetritis, former Deputy Prime Minister Evangelos Venizelos, Professor of Public Law at the Law School of the University of Athens, George Delis.
“The Constitution is there and is waiting for us to read it correctly. It has autonomy and can solve problems without revision, “said Katerina Sakellaropoulou.
“It is important to see that we should not understand the Constitution as a table but not as a failure of public political and political system,” Mr Gerapetritis expressed the view.
“We have a mood, which unfortunately begins with the scientific community, the depreciation of the Constitution. When we depreciate the Constitution we cannot understand how large the untapped constitutional deposits are. So the first discussion we can have is about existing regulatory deposits that are too many, “Mr Venizelos said.
“What should we do? to apply the existing Constitution. There is a provision in the Constitution on how the state should take care of. Yes we can also have a good constitution. We also have good things in this country, “Mr Dellis said.
“In fact the Constitution is there and it is waiting for us to read it correctly. We don’t read it right. The Constitution has an autonomy and has the ability for the legislator, the performer to solve the problems without having to constantly change it. There are some issues that are with such clarity that one can only tease them by revising the Constitution.
What you do not easily review, and we have to pay attention there is the attitudes. The most important is not the revision of the Constitution but its implementation. There we suffer, in keeping with the laws, “said Mrs Sakellaropoulou.
Asked about the responsibilities that the PDE should have, he stressed that it is not an institutional counterweight but must be united and express the whole of society.
“If the political system judges it, it will take the risk. It is not our problem there, “said Ms Sakellaropoulou, and in relation to the possible creation of a constitutional court, he was in favor of the preventive control of constitutionality of the laws, because, as he said, it would not be a good solution to turn justice into an independent authority.
In another question by Mrs Makantasis, if interventions are needed in justice as she is blamed for delays in the administration of justice that block the economy and investment, Mrs Sakellaropoulou replied that she was tired of listening to that the justice is not to blame for investment, regularly.
“Whatever review, we will not see improvement, since the problem of justice is multifactorial,” he noted.
“We need to disintegrate the process of revising the Constitution,” Foreign Minister George Gerapetritis said in his part.
“The review is not required to be sweeping or nihilistic. Today it is necessary to have a government with greater accountability, it is necessary to have a more contemporary parliament, to have a balance in the government, and a more independent justice, we need a closer administration and more meritocratic. So yes to the revision without the dramatic reason we have historically we have in Greece, “he said.
Asked about the Ministers’ Liability Act, he replied that in practice preliminary committees have historically failed, as a process with relative rigor is transformed into purely policy.
At the same time, he expressed his reservations about the independent authorities, saying that he would not want a constitution of the independent authorities.
“We cannot remove matter from the accountant state power and transfer it to independent authorities. They must only work where necessary so that the state does not arbitrarily, “he noted.
At a different wavelength was the placement of Mr Venizelos, arguing that “a revision that raises substantial issues cannot be made, as there are no political conditions for an increased parliamentary majority”.
“We can live fine without revision,” Mr Dellis argued, adding that “we must be careful because the anxiety is not to push the world into anti -systemism.”
Asked about linking the Constitution to the economy, he said that many critical constitutional authorities come through Brussels, citing Article 106 on the role of the state in the economy that has never changed and asking, if revised, to say the self -evident that the state is coordinating the economy to a free market.
Source: RES-EIA
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