He pointed out that this circuit was dismantled with the intervention of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office and the assistance of the Greek authorities on the days of the Mitsotakis government.
“After the Prime Minister’s return from a very critical summit some were taken, at a political level – because I want to separate politics from criminal debate – decisions, which I think are sending a message from the Prime Minister. And of course the resignations of the Deputy Ministers -because Mr Voridis’ resignation is a different case -send a message to both the faction and the government, but I think as a whole in the political system, “the Deputy Minister said under the prime minister and a government spokesman. Paul Marinakis In today’s interview with T/S Mega.
“In order not to hide behind our finger, these dialogues we have read that some of them are deeply politically problematic remind us of things that we have been described by those who are younger, from previous years, we have heard them in stories, and some have not been and have not been in their stories. And I do not exclude any party and I do not think that some are more or less. I’m not going to do any offsetting. In 2025 and with the abstention in the elections and with the back of the back of the younger, the Prime Minister first and overall the government, we have all realized that all this cannot be tolerated. Such a behavior is compatible with the ministerial or ministerial capacity, and I think this is a guide – the evaluation of individual behaviors – for all of us who have chosen to represent citizens in anything, ”he added.
On the resignation of Voridis, he noted that “it is a resignation for reasons he explains, he believes that once he is controlled- the opposition has announced the submission of a pre-trial committee- without accepting the charges …”
“As for the criminal dimension we will continue to read the data, the data, because it is another thing to evaluate individual political behaviors and it is another thing to send a human being to the judicial council. And, after reading the case file, you have to see that there is evidence to “tie”, even at the level of indications, a criminal responsibility. And when it comes time to the House, the submission of the proposals, with respect – and in the proposals that will be submitted to the citizens before and above all – we will be placed without political terms but only with the elements that exist. In order to decide a former minister to follow an A or B model, as the questions I ask, justice must bring you criminal data, “Mr Marinakis said.
Asked if the resignations of government officials were asked, Mr Marinakis said: “I think some things are self -evident. When something happens a few hours after the Prime Minister’s return from the European Council you realize that this was not accidental at that time. And this is not the first time the prime minister has evaluated instantly and individual individual behaviors. “
He pointed out that this circuit was dismantled by the intervention of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office and the assistance of the Greek authorities over the days of the Mitsotakis government. “Is it the first circuit that acts, in the broad sense, in the public for many years and is disrupted on the days of this government? I answer no. Very quickly in titles I will remind you of various cases: illegal prescriptions. How many years have it been? A lot. It was dislocated to Mitsotakis. In customs – a large circuit – not just one in customs. In town planning, tax offices, prisons, municipal police, a number of operations against fuel smuggling, large circuits, ”he said.
Asked about the money given illegally, he said that it was the highest duty of the state to be sought and the last euro by any legal means of those who will prove to be taken while they should not take it. “In any way the law provides. With seizures, searches … the competent services must be exhausted, that money to go back – to say something and the above provided by law » noted.
“The Greek state … Because we are talking about an administrative imputation, this fine has nothing to do with the specific criminal behavior that is being investigated has to do with administrative imputation. And it’s one more. Only in ’96 until 2004 were 17 such fines of 800 million. The Greek state can resort to its height. So let’s see what its height and the time will eventually be. And most importantly for me, it is – again – to quickly run the announcements and movements that have already begun to be done so that all this black period of 30, 40 years are a past and anyone who has a criminal one to pay separately, ”he added.
Mr Marinakis also reiterated that the elections would take place in 2027 because this government was elected in ’23 with a four -year program. “Average 1,500 salary that is already about to reach much more: it is the unemployment we are first at a decrease in and we want to reduce it and the big projects, the Thessaloniki subway has been delivered, the extension will be delivered, now we have Patras-Pyrgos,” he said.
Finally to a question about the Prime Minister’s relations with Makis Voridis The government spokesman said: “Mr Voridis I think is a man who served all the posts with great efficiency -and especially as we worked with the Maximus Mansion he was a man who has always been with his legal knowledge and adequacy. It was politically explored that once it is under control in a case, it does not mean criminal responsibility, we will see this when the time comes, it could not be in this position. So; The offer of people is not canceled, in no way, and there is no anthropomorphia. I say it again. But there is another morality. There are at the moment big people who see us or younger who are tired of getting into the carpet. “