Behind the closed door of the 223 room on the second floor of the Greek Parliament is currently being given the most weird and perhaps final battle for the course of its work. pre -trial committee for the Tempi. At the start of the procedure, the Commission President Panagis Kappatos came out of the room to receive an extradition from the Basilica Basilica brother and his sister John Voutsina who died of the deadly conflict of trains
The action of the former deputy minister Christos Triantopoulos to ask the House to prosecute him and refer him to the Judicial Council for further It has caused a structural rearrangement to the attitude of almost all political parties to the extent that their new positions are now in direct conflict with what they said in the past.
The government majority appears as a hurry to prosecute against its former deputy minister, fully adopting the opposition’s former positions. On the other side PASOK and SYRIZA They change their attitude and denounce as a new attempt at cover -up what they themselves demanded until recently. They argue that the House of Representatives (where decisions are taken by a majority controlled by the ND) can do more substantial investigation by senior judges selected by draw and not by appointment.
All new positions is perhaps yet another confirmation that almost all parties – over time – approach the pre -trial investigators in the light of communication -political benefits rather than the substantive help in seeking truth.
In the final, however, her initiative New Democracy To support Triantopoulou’s indictment, which the plenary overwhelmingly pointed out a majority of 277 MPs and to refer to the Judicial Council with summary proceedings of its own executive can hardly be classified as an attempt to “conceal” or “bazaoma” of its possible criminal.
Note that this direction was indicated as a preferable and well -known constitutionalist Nikos Alivizatos. “Do we more trust the majority of the New Democracy, that is, the ruling party, by an investigator who is drawn and who has enormous responsibilities on the basis of his responsibilities? This is the crucial size, “he said Commenting on opposition reactions on SKAI radio He stressed that “the court cannot be considered to be set up or that the 5 -member council provided by law is set up. The draw takes place in Parliament before the House. If they believe that whoever is drawn is caught, well, I’m very sorry, there is no state. A party cannot support this view seriously. I’m afraid everything is being overthrown. ”
Mr Alivizatos hastened to explain that there is a provision of the indictment if the Judicial Council investigated the investigation of additional criminal offenses by Mr Triantopoulos or a possible criminal involvement of other ministers.
ND: Sufficient data for referral
According to reports, the final stance of the ND was determined at a meeting on Wednesday afternoon where the case file and the content of the prosecution provision assigned responsibility for the deterioration of the accident site were extensively analyzed.
The same sources report on protothema.gr How the final suggestion of the majority as will be presented today by the lady Konstantina Karampatsoli It will report that all the data included in the “Bazaa” folder are sufficient for a finding and direct reference to Triantopoulos to the Judicial council for the offense of breach of duty.
The ND proposal that will probably be approved by voting will call on other parties to write their own findings and within 15 days to present them at a new meeting of the Commission, which will probably be the final. At the same time, it will propose to draw up an indicative list of witnesses in order to be forwarded to the Judicial Council attached to the basic referral file.
PASOK: To keep the investigation in the House
On the other hand, the opposition has already made it clear that it does not intend to consent to the ND proposal. Reportedly PASOK prefers observance of hard but institutional – as they argue – insisting on the need to remain the research in pre -trial of the House.
Harilaou Trikoupi’s new arguments is causing the ND’s fire that reminds that all the previous period Nikos Androulakis And PASOK MPs demanded that Mr Triantopoulou’s direct reference to his natural judge. “Eventually does PASOK want to see Mr. Triantopoulos in his natural judge, as he urged him? Or now that Mr Triantopoulos himself is pursuing it, does his attitude change? Are they only interested in only the tooling of Tempi tragedy? ” They report features from Syngrou, releasing a video with relevant statements by top officials in the opposition.
At the same time, a fireplace between Maximus and Harilaou Trikoupi was a statement by PASOK, which he quoted statements by Kyriakos Mitsotakis of 2018 against the then SYRIZA government’s approaches to the launch of Novartis.
“PASOK, in its attempt to justify the unjustified with this unprecedented and unthinkable set -off,” is “rinsing” in essence the approaches of Novartis, whose victims were also his own executives, “the government spokesman said, among other things. Paul Marinakis. Earlier PASOK’s representative Kostas Tsoukalas He had said that during the debate on Novartis’s pre -trial investigation in 2018, “Kyriakos Mitsotakis had said:” Do not dare to close the pre -trial committee without all coming to light. “Yesterday, he told us that he did not need to work? Do witnesses come before her? ”
However, Government executives note that there is no identification of Triantopoulou’s case with SYRIZA’s actions hanging 10 political opponents in his cloths.. “Then the government majority of Syriza-ANEL decided to close the pre-trial allegedly assertive and without exercising the slightest prosecution. That is to say, seeing their political impasse with the false witnesses, they lock in the pre -trial investigation and to hide the collapse of the plot threw the ball to the corruption prosecutor’s Office to start investigations from scratch. Kyriakos Mitsotakis had then complained. That is to say, we have the opposite of Triantopoulos’s proposal, which calls for the pre -trial referral to the natural judge in order to repel each accusation. They closed the preliminary investigation to cover their collapse. We ask the pre -trial investigation to have everything come to light from the natural judge, ”they say.
SYRIZA leaves
THE SYRIZA It seems that he will follow the tactic of terminating the process and the departure from the preliminary investigation work so as not to legitimize the “unconstitutional” and “anti -state” actions of the majority.
It is recalled that the rapporteur of Koumoundouros who will be called upon to present his party’s positions is Vassilis Kokkaliswhich was about a month ago in favor of the direct referral of Triantopoulou to justice and the “detachment of the case from parliamentary institutions”.