A ruling with immediate political consequences was issued by the Supreme Special Court, annuling the election of the three Spartans MPs – Santa Claus Stiga, Petrou Dimitriadis and Alexandros Zervea – accepting the appeals that had been brought against them.
This is the second time post -political court that has been so decisively intervening in the formation of the House, and the first time that the National Delegation will operate with 297 members, as long as there is no replacement of the deputies.
The decision of the Court is based on the rationale that the election of the three men were misleading the electorate, As the party leader and leader of the party was Elias Kassidiarisconvicted of years of imprisonment for participation in a criminal organization.
In particular, the Court of Justice, among other things, considered the following:
Appeal to the annulment of a decision to declare Members and an alternate Member in a specific constituency due to an electoral infringement consisting of the deception of the voters in the sense that it participated in a political party with a subordinate leader who has already been convicted of the criminal act of joining and in the course of the criminal act.
The case of the deception of the electors by the electoral combinations of political party with the underlying leader relates to the whole territory and in particular the constituencies in which MPs of the political party were proclaimed.
However, if the objection is challenged by the results of only certain or certain constituencies for other constituencies for which the elections have not been objected to the elections have become definitive and irrevocable.
Consequently, the Court considers that in view of the nature of the particular electoral infringement consisting of the deception of the voters with participation in the political party elections with a subordinate leader across the country. The repetition of voting in these constituencies becomes unnecessary.
The proclamation of the alternate MP of the same party in the constituency of the 2nd Thessaloniki is not permissible in view of the particularity of the particular electoral infringement concerning the political party in which the MP involved, whose election is canceled as well as the alternate.
Furthermore, the provisions of Law 345/1976 do not provide for a member of the declaration of a Member of Parliament in the event of a declaration of a member of a political party with a subordinate leader who constitutes the electoral infringement of the deception of the electorate, the redistribution of the parliamentary headquarters to candidates for other civil servants. The seats in question of the defendants remain blank.