The Minister of Development, Takis Theodorikakosanswered a timely question by the President of Freedom Cruise, Konstantopoulouregarding the Court of Auditors’ report on the public contracts. As he said, the Ministry of Development is responsible for the regulatory frame and legislationnot to control the application of the provisions of public contracts.
Mr. Theodorikakos emphasized that transparency is fundamental beginning Both for himself and the government, stressing that there are no discounts on morality and legality. Reported to the recent legislative initiative of the Ministry of Development, which instituted the creation Special Corps for public procurement and expanded the obligation wherever you to all public officials involved.
In addition, the minister talked about the 1,400 investment plans older development laws that were not completed. Through the Ministry of Development’s legislation, these plans are dismissed to accelerate procedures Return of hundreds of millions of euros in the Greek State Funds.
Regarding the Court of Auditors’ report, Mr. Theodorikakos explained that pre -contractual check is obligatory For contracts over 300,000 euros by the Court of Auditors Commissioner, over € 1,700,000 from a step for national resources and more than € 5 million for European funds. He stressed that “Without the consent of the Court of Auditors, no contract is signed. Therefore, nothing illegal has happened anywhere” He called on Mrs Constantopoulou to publicly report any illegality she knows and to testify to the prosecutor.
In his discipline, the minister criticized the phrase “how much will they eat” as “extreme and slanderous placement“, Stressing that” throwing mud on the fan is not good for democracy “and undermines the reliability in parliament.
Finally, in terms of OPECEPEMr. Theodorikakos stated the clear government position: “Bring back the stolen” He added that the government will be judged for its effectiveness on this issue, stressing that ‘it is a matter of credibility of our policy to start returning money and start the judicial proceedings At the expense of those who stole the Greek and the European taxpayer and wronged our farmers. “