In a lengthy post titled “A Due Reparation 2.5 Years Overdue,” Mr Akis Schertsos returns to the issue of the false publication of Avgi in June 2023, which, as he points out, was directed in an “unholy and slanderous manner” not against him but against his wife, the president of Protodiki Avgi Andosidou.
The Minister of State recalls that the article was published “one day before the crises for her promotion”, leaving clear clues about the intention or the result of the attack of that period. After 2.5 years and shortly before the case went to court, the newspaper issued a remedial statement, fully retracting what it had originally published.
Akis Skertsos emphatically notes that “the newspaper did the obvious” and condemns the personal attacks which, as he says, “do not belong to any tradition of the Left”. Referring to the toxicity of public speech, the minister speaks of “cannibalism” that “feeds the snake’s egg” and removes “every reasonable and honest person” from dealing with the public.
In conclusion, he publicly apologizes to his wife “for the extremely uncomfortable position in which my involvement in politics has put her”, while he wishes the “Avgi” newspaper to demonstrate “the integrity, sensitivity and respect for others that characterize my own Avgi”.
Dawn’s restorative statementpublished 2.5 years later, acknowledges that the June 2023 publication contained “incorrect judgments from incorrect information” and clarifies that “Ms. Andosidou did not commit any ethical or disciplinary violation at all.”
Akis Skertsou’s post in detail:
A due restoration 2.5 years late In June 2023, between the 2 election contests, and while…
Posted by Eye Skertsos on Saturday, October 25, 2025
A due restoration 2.5 years late
In June 2023, between the 2 election contests, and while I was temporarily performing the duties of the press representative, the AVGI newspaper decided to attack in a merciless and slanderous way not me but my wife, publishing non-existent lies about her professional path. He did it exactly one day before the judgments for her promotion seeking, willfully or unwittingly, to materially harm her.
2.5 years later and shortly before the case went to trial, the newspaper did the obvious thing and retracted what it had falsely stated with the following note.
I honestly don’t want to know to what tradition of the Left the personal attack with slander against the families of political opponents might belong. But also how consistent is this tactic with the respect we all have to show in practice for gender equality, women’s emancipation and that women are not a follower of their husbands.
This very incoherent and toxic cannibalism that unfortunately characterizes an increasingly large part of the political environment and the media has two consequences: it literally shows us as monsters in public opinion by feeding “the snake’s egg”, while at the same time it can remove from politics every reasonable and honest person who wants to offer to the public without suffering a daily witch hunt.
To my own Dawn I owe a great apology for the extremely awkward position in which my own preoccupation with politics has put her.
In the newspaper AVGI, I wish it to follow the integrity, sensitivity and respect for others that characterize my own Avgi. Her restorative statement shows there may be hope.
Our democracy needs far less toxicity and hostility in political debate and more political culture with substantive arguments instead of character assassination.
“After a more careful journalistic investigation that we carried out, we found the error of the publication that was initially registered on our website www.avgi.gr, on 13-6-2023 and then in the printed edition of our newspaper, on 14-6-2023, with which we referred unfavorably to the President of the First Instance of the Administrative Courts, Ms. Avgis Andosidou of Georgiou, making false claims for her that it is allegedly well-known not only to her colleagues but also to indignant lawyers and desperate litigants and in general to everyone in the vicinity of the Jerusalem of the Administrative Courts that the decisions she was charged with, i.e. undertook to issue and did not issue, are so many that if one were to put them side by side they reach….up to the Administrative Court building Court of First Instance of Chania, if not further.
The truth is that Mrs. Avgi Andosidou tou Georgiou, President of the First Instance of the Administrative Courts, did not fall into any ethical or disciplinary violation during the exercise of her function, since as we diagnosed after the fact all the objections against her were our wrong judgments due to our incorrect information on the substance, which we retract respecting the honor and reputation her”.