Government sources For yesterday’s vote they clarify that:
«1. According to Article 67 of the Constitution, The House It cannot decide without the absolute majority of the members present but it can never be less than a quarter of the entire number of Members, so today a decision is required by the House of Representatives. Since there is no other constitutional provision for quorum, the quorum required for the decision of the House requires the presence of 75 Members, without any relevant exception to the Constitution.
2. As for the necessary majority for the decision of the House, the Constitution provides the rule of Article 67 of the Constitution (absolute majority of the present members who may never be less than a quarter of the entire number of Members), as to which the rule of the article 86 A majority of the entire number of Members for the establishment of the Special Parliamentary Committee to conduct a preliminary examination (hence 151 positive votes). It is a special majority that establishes a divergence from the rule of Article 67 of the Constitution, not in terms of the number of Members present to make a decision, but for the majority required to vote in favor of the proposal. Any opposite interpretation ends up confusing, and even interpretively, without a relative basis in the Constitution, the required number of Members present with the majority required to make a decision, ending up requiring up to 200 Members present to decide (in the case of a decision of the two, in the case of a decision of the two).
3. In terms of finding the number of Members of Parliament in the Constitution and the Regulation of the House of Representatives for the conduct of a vote and the decision, the Rules of Procedure of the House provides for the relevant competence of the President of the President (Article 69 (4)). Once this issue has been judged, there is no issue of proposals pending to be put into a vote. “
It is also clarified that in recent years, parliamentary practice in the application of Article 70A of the House of Representatives recognizes increased capabilities Participation of a Member of Parliament in a letter voting, whose Use to a lesser extent the New Democracy in relation to most parties of the opposition. In 57 Cases of nominal votes during the first two sessions of the current parliamentary period the percentage of its Members New Democracy voted with a letter vote amounted to 22%, compared to 42% of PASOK, 47% of SYRIZA, 34% her Greek solution, 55% of the new left and 27% of victory (while the corresponding percentage of the KKE was 16% and the Freedom Cruise to 13%). Criticism must, however, take into account these real data. “
In addition, government sources, and responding to the deadline for posting in the media Social networking with Evangelos Venizelos, emphasize that ‘in every caseand regardless of any arguments about the necessary quorum and majority, it is clear that the conclusion of the suspension in a supposed crisis of internal confidence that becomes a judgment of legalization has nothing to do with with the reality of modern Hellenic Republic. “