Another toxic partnership between PASOK and SYRIZA falls on deaf ears, as the… Dots for calling Gregory Demetriades to the Institutional and Transparency Committee are not coming out.
At the same time, questions arise as to whether the staffers of the two parties have … read the Parliament Rules as to who is expected to testify in such top parliamentary committees.
A striking fact is that the opposition’s new initiative brings back to the fore a case that has already occupied the political system, the Justice and the Parliament for several years, but without the evidence that the government’s political opponents have at times discounted. Despite this, PASOK and SYRIZA obsessively choose to bring the issue back up – coincidentally after the unprovoked attack by businessman Marinakis on Grigoris Dimitriadis at OAKA – seeking to subpoena persons who, according to some, do not even fall within the framework set by the House Rules themselves.
And this is because Article 43A of the Rules is absolutely specific. The Committee on Institutions and Transparency can summon state officials and public figures to a hearing on matters relating to the functioning of institutions and transparency. However, neither Grigoris Demetriades currently holds a public office nor, much less, Tal Dillian (for whom the necessary 2/5 majority has been obtained) can be considered a public figure in the sense described in the Rules of Procedure, as he is a private individual, a businessman and a foreign national. On top of that, Mr. Dillian has already been convicted by the Greek judiciary.
In any case, many believe that this is yet another attempt to politically recycle a case that has been repeatedly used as a tool of opposition pressure. “When there is no new evidence, the same people, the same demands and the same complaints keep coming back,” they say, referring to a “reheated soup” that periodically returns to the political news.
Mr. The fact that PASOK and SYRIZA requested Dimitriadis’ summons a few days after the former general secretary of the prime minister was unprovoked attacked by Vangelis Marinakis at OAKA can only be seen as a coincidence.
