Kaklamanis: His request honors him but cannot be satisfied
Former Minister of Infrastructure and Transportation under SYRIZA-ANEL government Christos Spirtzis visited the Speaker of Parliament Nikita Kaklaman and filed a request for the activation of the procedures referred to in Article 86 (5) of the Constitution providing for the investigation by the judiciary of ligament cases for persons who were members of the Government. Earlier he had been aware of the files that have come to the House of Representatives.
Mr Spitzis said in his statement that “Because we are not all the same as a value code and as faces and as parties. Today I asked because there was no process of informing me to find out about lawsuits that have reached the House and concern me. Are four lawsuits. Because there is new information on Convention 717. I visited the Speaker of the House and called for the activation of Article 86 (5) in terms of my own person, both for the lawsuits that our fellow citizens (mainly relatives of the victims) have filed and the repetition of my request for investigating it Convention 717. I hope to be accepted.
In any other case (it will be the fourth time that I will be deprived of the possibility of the human right to investigate the responsibilities I may have or I have) then I will continue the initiatives at other levels for investigation to fall into a lot of light on the crime of their crime. Tempsยป.
The former minister said that “any relative of a victim or injured person or survivor or lawyer would like, I am at their disposal to give them the information I have at my disposal”
Mr Spirtzis was asked by reporters what he means that if the procedure referred to in Article 86 (5) will not be activated by Parliament he would have resorted to other means he said “that the other way is the European Courts”.
The former minister was asked if he believes that “Costas Ah should also be testified. Karamanlis explained that “the offenses have not been limited to Mr Karamanlis, so it is a decision by parliament to initiate proceedings for him. As far as me and the previous ministers are concerned by me, for whom the offenses have been limited and included their names in these files, they could request the activation of Article 86 (5) “
Mr Spirtzis, earlier, had a meeting with Parliament Speaker Nikita Kaklamanis where he filed the request (attached).
Kaklamanis: Mr Spirtz’s request honors him, but he cannot be satisfied because of the Constitution
“I understand Mr Spirtzis’ request and I am glad to have this sensitivity, but there are another and the press, the Constitution and the KTB,” said Parliament Speaker Nikitas Kaklamanis, informing the parliamentary authors of his meeting with his former minister. 5 of the Constitution to investigate the case of the Tempe tragedy in what they concern.
Mr Kaklamanis said that Mr Spirtzis “had again submitted a similar request on March 21, 2024, after the Hellenic Parliament had rejected the establishment of a preliminary committee for the execution of Convention 717. Now, Article 86 par. However, this article refers as an executive process to the House Regulation.
Article 155 (11) of the CCP (which is the application of 86 par. Supreme judicial officers to control the category.
According to Mr Kaklamanis, the discussion is held at one meeting, pointing out that in order to make this a prerequisite, it is “not completed the procedure”, that is to say, a preliminary committee has been set up, to have begun the procedure for investigating the referred to. “Here the House has not set up a preliminary committee, so no prosecution has been prosecuted. Consequently, this request honors Mr Spirtzis but cannot be satisfied because of the CCP. “ Mr. Kaklamanis emphasized.