For effort defamation of the country on the part of the opposition, the deputy minister, despite the prime minister and a government spokesman, Paul Marinakisin the context of a debate in the plenary of Parliament, the bill on “Enhancing publicity and transparency in print and electronic Type».
On the one hand we heard about a country that is in the latest evaluations, which chases journalistsin which you cannot freely say your opinion, the worst one can imagine, and on the other hand, we heard 19 representatives of bodies placed in the bill, that “the big picture was positive. It was better than they had lived in previous years, in the years they ruled, more democratic governments were supposed to be a supposedly evil and against institutions and freedom of the government, ”said Marinakis.
Referring to the annual report on the Rule of law her European committee For EU Member States, Mr Marinakis said that, while some say that Greece is in the last place, in the committee’s report last summer, it had four recommendations on all issues in total: “It was two fewer than ahead of six recommendations. […] Do you know how many states have more recommendations than supposedly late Greece? Eighteen EU Member States have more recommendations for the rule of law and the freedom of the press than the latest Greece has been supposed to be. “
In response to the MP of the New Left, D. Tzanakopoulos That opposition to the government does not mean that you are opposition in the country, Mr Marinakis replied “not always” and noted: “When you present in your country as a regime, your country is discredited throughout the world. When you defame the women and men of the Coast Guard, you do not defame the government, you defame your country. When you talk about non -existent dead children you do not deceive the government, you are shaking your country. See it, and I say it really well -intentioned. Wanting to believe that even after the experience of the three months, some lessons took some lessons, that it was not going anywhere. No reasonable citizen buys it. And it doesn’t help anyone. “
At the same time, he underlined:
“No left or center -left government abolished mere defamation for journalists, who was a constant demand of journalists. The Mitsotakis government did.
No supposedly progressive government has established a peer for threats against journalists. The Mitsotakis government did
None of the center -left governments have come to say, “No, the President and CEO of ERT will not be an exclusive choice of the respective Minister”, but it will result from an ASEP process. The Mitsotakis government did it and did so.
None of these governments shouting about abusive lawsuits against journalists has made legislation on the Slapps lawsuits.
And no government from the sensitive governments for the rights of the press workers came to put rules so that in order to get any publisher even one euro, it has to pay the journalists. And to pay them separately, for every job they do. And be insurance aware. And this is what Mitsotakis did. “
“To have a radio, as a parliamentary party, you have to be a parliamentary party”
“And this is our great things. We go through words to actions. In legislation and implementation, ”said Marinakis.
Responding to MPs for individual provisions of the bill, he said that there is an explicit reference to the subscribers’ issue and legislative improvement: “We are only talking about a number of subscribers, not subscribers”.
For the evidence of newspaper prints, he said that the Article 5 does not say that every day should the newspapers upload printing documents. “There will be a ministerial decision setting every time this should be done, after consultation” with the unions. He even pledged that the decision would make some periodicity every 10-15-20 days, and, of course, unannounced inspections by the competent services, information would be requested for the immediate time.
For Article 29 and the party radios, Mr Marinakis categorically replied that “the layout is not photographic”. “I say it for the 15th time. Under no circumstances. It is very clear what we want to do. It’s an interpretive order, ”he said.
And he added: “To have a radio, as a parliamentary party, you have to be a parliamentary party. In the criticism “why now, after 13 years”, the answer is, because now there was a transfer, albeit with conception. So the ESR is now filtering this, judging it, decides whether it should be done or not done. And the ESR found a legal gap. While the law says when you get it, it doesn’t say what happens afterwards, that you don’t have the legal basis. And I have said, to be clear, that I aim for all the frequencies, which have been operating for decades with temporary licenses – in law – it is, not even licenses – to proceed with the licensing process including this frequency. So what would be honest? Let us come while a radio has started operating with another name and another address and close it? “
“We do not want a party radio that acts as a parliamentary, when this party is not in the House. I tell you, what is our goal for the November bill. This will be permanently applicable anyway. So we did it now that we were asked, as a vacuum, and it is an interpretive arrangement. We do not change the law. It would take place after the vote of the Members a few months later, and we would have been subsequently complained – I would just say – if I say, now or then make any decision the decision ESR, Because the ESR decides and not us. “
Finally, he said that the pending faced by taking over the Press and Information portfolio were a “mountain of temporary situations, unsolved things”. “Radios are temporarily operating, temporary regional channels, legally but with licenses. By 2022, the landscape in the newspapers, on the websites. Decades whole. How many years does ERT have a bill? […]”He explained and added:
“There, you have two roads. Kick the box a little further. Or try, with great help from the bodies, the parliamentary group, your partners, to solve the problems one by one. This is what we are trying to do, ”Mr Marinakis said and concluded:
‘Basic pursuit of his government Kyriakou Mitsotakis It is – many times with the risk of becoming unpleasant – not to leave the next “hot potatoes” but to try to find solutions. But we will definitely not leave anything uncharted. Because we want every euro of the citizens to go to the consistent and we want the consistent awards and the non -consistent adaptation, otherwise not to take a single euro. “