It is besides any logic to maintain a party that is no longer in the House, a public radio frequency and even buy and sell it, as the Deputy Minister of Prime Minister and a government spokesman said, Paul Marinakisin the context of the third meeting of the relevant Parliamentary Committee, which elaborates on the bill to “enhance publicity and transparency in the print and electronic press”.
On the occasion of a criticism of a relevant article in the bill, which stipulates that the condition of the legal operation of a party radio is not fulfilled since its representation in Parliament is ceased to exist, Mr. Marinakis He said that, as a student who completes his / her studies or loses student status cannot rent or sell a student home room, so and in the field of public radio frequencies one cannot sell Something that doesn’t belong to him.
Responding to the position of New Left MP Dimitris Tzanakopoulos that the layout comes a few days after the intention of publisher to operate a radio station at a frequency made available to a party, The government spokesman noted that there is a legal gap and is indifferent to the government Who wants to get a frequency from someone who is not entitled to have it.
“You ask,” why now “. First, because it is the first bill I have the honor to enter. Secondly, because the ESR itself found a legal gap. Having the clear wording, the law, that you have this frequency while you are in the House, then (the law) did not say what happens when you are not in the House. I’m clear. It’s not a photographic at all. And especially as to who wants to get the frequency. It is indifferent. But the one who wants to give it is not entitled to have it, “he said.
In fact, he informed the Parliamentary Committee that “in a few months, I have also identified it in time, the fourth bill – this is the first thing we are discussing – I intend to enter with my General Secretariat and my associates, Initially in the ministerial and then in Parliament, the Bill on Radio Stations. There, our reflection, following the requests of the Associations, is whether we will be able to generally have party radios – to know where we are – or if we keep what is true now, as long as it is in the House. And in order not to workers have an issue, Obviously, to discuss for some years later. We will discuss this with the associations, with the parties and bring to the House, “the Deputy Minister said under the Prime Minister.
“So,” he continued, “it is a given, expressed, that in a few months a party radio, whose party is not in the House, will not be able to work. So what is more honest? To come in retrospect, While he has opened a radio, a government that has the right to legislate, To close it or say that, “children, the rules are them, we come to legislate”. There are no longer party radios outside the House. Because the old law says it. We don’t change him. This is what we consider to be more consistent and not at all photographic. “
Mr Marinakis further explained that when the law says that as long as you are in the House you have the frequency – it is the right that the law gives you because you have a legal basis – to come a few years after you go and buy and sell with this frequency, then it is. And no photographic. The opposite. Anyone who wants to buy radio –indifferent how it is politically placed- or get a frequency, will be, first God from November -There I calculate the passage of the law if it is introduced by the end of September, at the end of October, to the Council of Ministers-with “ON-OF” criteria, that is, without the process of the Florence Institute, which was also condemned by that minister, that is to say, without putting it in your gambling,
It should be noted that the bill on “Enhancing publicity and transparency in print and electronic type” It was accepted in principle by the competent Parliamentary Committee on Public Administration, Public Order and Justice, with the ND in favor, the KKE voting against and the other parties expressing “reservations”.