The 3 immediate steps to prosecute the former deputy minister Christos Triantopoulos Members of the House of Representatives decided by a majority of the offense of breach of duty and his referral to the Judicial Council.
The Commission is reportedly expected to call for a former Undersecretary of State for examination at a meeting on Friday, March 28, 2025, at 10am. It will then be given to the parties about 10 days to draw up their findings while the overall finding will be introduced into the plenary within the first 15th of April for the final vote.
The finding will end up in Proposal for prosecution for the offense of breach of duty And if it is approved by at least 151 Members – which is most likely – Mr Triantopoulos will be referred to the Judicial Council. The 5 -member composition of the Supreme Judicial Council will be determined by draw.
According to the same information, the proposal of the majority approved by voting states that the evidence included in the prosecution order for the deterioration of the railway accident is sufficient to prosecute Mr Triantopoulos. In fact ND MPs cited PASOK’s proposal to set up pre -trial investigation Where, among other things, he says that Mr Triantopoulos would have already been prosecuted by the competent prosecutor’s Office if he was a natural person and not a member of the government as the findings are sufficient.
To note that Opposition parties, with the exception of the Spartans and Freedom Cruise, left the relevant vote in order not to legitimize as they argued the “anti -disposal” decisions of the majority.
On the side of PASOK the lady Milena Apostolaki He argued that the majority proposal is hurting the function and credibility of the institutions.
She complained to an attempt to deliberately bypass the preliminary examination and a direct reference to Mr Triantopoulou to the interrogation stage, in violation of the Constitution.
Ms Apostolakis insisted on the need to maintain the criminal jurisdiction in Parliament, while appearing to describe the conversion of PASOK’s proposal for the establishment of a pre -trial prosecution.
Mr. Vassilis Kokkalis of SYRIZA spoke of a “absolute humiliation” of the Constitution and the Law. “They denied the witnesses we proposed with the Prime Minister first. Selectively and despite the law they call on explanations by Mr. Triantopoulos. We were absent from the vote in a parody process, ”he said.
ND: The 3 reasons that Triantopoulos’s request must be accepted
ND MP Konstantina Karampatsolis, presenting the majority suggestion that Mr Triantopoulos’s immediate reference to the Judicial Council is in line with the Constitution, guarantees the complete investigation of the tragedy of Tempi by the Tempes and the Terrorist. Opposition to set up the pre -trial committee.
He reportedly developed three main reasons that support the majority proposal, saying, inter alia:
1) He rejected the opposition’s allegations that a possible direct reference was not in line with the Constitution, stressing that the Triantopoulos request is “absolutely compatible with the provisions of Article 86 of the Constitution” on the criminal treatment of government officials, but also with the Rules of Procedure. Mrs Karampatsoli even recalled that The constitutionally certain mission of the committee is the drafting of a finding, which will suggest in plenary the exercise or non -prosecution against the former deputy minister. In this context, he made it clear that the Commission does not have the jurisdiction to judge one’s guilt, but simply to judge as to the help of simple indications for the movement of criminal prosecution.
2) He pointed out that for the management of the Tempe tragedy, for which Mr. Triantopoulos is controlled, He has already prosecuted four non -political figures and reminded the opposition that the PASOK MPs themselves on page 16 of their request To set up pre -investigation, they argued precisely that if Mr Triantopoulos was not deputy minister he would have already been referred with these four defendants.
Mrs Karampatsolis even noted that a preliminary prosecutor has already been completed for the four persecutors. “Since the prosecution has already been prosecuted on natural persons based on this evidence, we suggest that there is no reason to carry out other investigative acts, beyond those in which the prosecutor of the Appeals has done, and propose to plenary to the prosecution of the Criminal Council,” Karabatsolis.
The majority rapporteur added that the evidence that has been transmitted, as analyzed in detail in the Public Prosecutor’s Office, is sufficient for the assistance of the required simple indications, which necessary to further investigate the case by the Judicial Council.
3) The rapporteur also underlined that Given the pandemic request to spill plenty of light on the Tempe tragedy, the Judicial Council “guarantees the complete and thorough investigation of all aspects” of the caseas it is staffed by five senior judges, who will be selected transparently through public draw. He also rejected the objections that the Judicial Council would not be able to do a real job, explaining that the Areopagite who will be drawn as an investigator has “no restriction on his investigative jurisdiction” and enjoys all the investigative forces that the pre -trial committee has.
Ms. Karampatsoli noted, finally, that with the immediate reference to the Judicial Council, Mr Triantopoulos himself agrees to bypass a stage which, in political terms, would be in favor of the government majority.