The view that the Sauce And personally, they have recorded in all this two -year course in the House, “What is our view and perception of democratic and parliamentary functioning»Expressed the Zoe Konstantopoulou Speaking to Parliament in the debate on the bill on the National Customs Code. “We have with trouble, consistency, presence, participation, referred and shown by example to those that constitute democracy in practice, as opposed to democracy in words“, Said the president of the Freedom Freedom, on the occasion of the 51st Anniversary today by the restoration of democracy in our country.
Mrs Konstantopoulou spoke of a ‘Democracy that was never fully restored by content“, Democracy,”Everyone and all of us have an obligation to embody and preserve“And”To inspire citizens to defend it and, above all, to give it that content of human rights, independence in the functioning of institutions, respect for pluralism, equality, diversity, lifting and eliminating discrimination, recognition of rights, respecting, respecting, respecting, respecting».
The president of the Freedom Cruise stressed that ‘In democracy, institutions must operate in vibrant process, with content and substance, contain dialogue, confrontation, disagreement, composition, consensus for which one must make trouble to achieve. That is, they must contain all those elements that are now deafeningly missing“He said, adding that” today’s anniversary was not honored by the House “, which he described as” sad “.
Zoe Konstantopoulou recalled an earlier statement ten years ago that “We are not what we say, we are what we do. It is the act that persuades the motives, the purposes, the determination and the consistency” At the same time, he argued that “my attitude has always been transparent” and that “when I had to leave the state’s state of the House of Representatives to be consistent with my reasons and actions, ideas and values, I did.”
The president of the Freedom Cruise said that ‘Democracy is not identified with power and democracy means control of power, accountability of power, independence of justice, the principles that are established by the Constitution as independent. It means living parliament, which is chosen and controlled, it means MPs who enjoy the real right of freedom of speech and voting, it means multi -party, confrontation and of course it means not just tolerance, but recognition of its opposition and institutional role” Added that ‘What is reflected in the two years of ND governance is unfortunately a gradual slide in exactly the opposite of what the democratic functioning of the state means. There is a need to control everything, control of justice … control and intervention in the independent authorities …».
Zoe Konstantopoulou accused the government of attempting to impose “suffocating rules in the opposition ‘within the parliament and control its existence. He cited and testified in the minutes of the House, a newspaper report that the regulation would change in autumn and “will cut the microphone and fall black on the House channel screen». «Are you dreaming? Censorship and black on the House channel?»The president of the Freedom Sun. “So great intolerance to the opposition and the opposite view, criticism, confrontation?“He said and added, referring to” a serious danger of normalizing democratic rights. “
Ms Konstantopoulou announced that she will not attend tonight’s reception at the Presidential Palace for the 51st anniversary of the restoration of the Republic. “I will not participate. At the time of the reception I will be in the Constitution, in the Solidarity event to the Palestinian people“, He said, noting that”We have a different perception of democracy».