In a post-an example of political amnesia, Nikos Androulakis appropriates on behalf of PASOK all that has been accomplished for the independent authorities.

He speaks of the DNA of the “democratic party” and with lies about the “paternity” of the establishment of independent authorities in Greece he is desperately trying to adopt work that belongs to the New Democracy.

So let’s look at the sequence of events chronologically, so that we can understand what the evolution of PASOK into a facsimile of a green Syriaza, which thinks it appeals to the historically illiterate.

One lie at a time:

1st Independent Authority: the Competition Commission, in 1977, under ND.It was established by the historic Law 703/77 to bring us in line with EEC law.

This was followed by eight years of PASOK 1981-89, when no independent authority was established.

2nd independent authority: the National Competition Commission. It was established under the ecumenical government of Tzannetakis and had an excellent chairman, the great jurist Professor Dagtopoulos. In 1993 PASOK won the elections and immediately downgraded it to an administrative department on the proposal of Akis Tsochatzopoulos.

3rd independent authority: EETT. Established under the New Democracy Party in 1992. Purpose (at the time): supervision of postal services and telecommunications.

4th independent authority: the AΣEP. First established by PASOK, only 17 years late! Its purpose: to clean up the public sector. It was an initiative of the great Anastasios Peponis, but it also marked his political end: immediately after its passage, Peponis was forced to resign and was never elected as a member of parliament again…

Subsequent authorities: the DPA on personal data in 1997 and the RAE in 1999, both due to the incorporation of EU law, hence out of necessity.

This in short is the “glorious history” of the DNA of the “democratic party” with independent authorities in the country called Greece and its citizens are Greeks, not Lotophagians…

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