“The image of the Bouliaments yesterday was truly disheartening,” were the words of Sofia Voultepsis earlier today on Skai.
The discussion was circled around yesterday’s meeting of the Committee on Institutions and Transparency on the nomination of the chairmen of the independent authorities, but it ended in a fight and extreme characterizations.
As Sofia Voultepsi said about this image of toxicity and populism, “I don’t want to imagine what they might be thinking from the citizen trying to make ends meet to the pilot guarding our skies, to the people guarding the border in Evros, when they see politicians who are supposed to represent them behaving in this way.”
Continuing her thoughts, the New Democracy MP said that “they are essentially arguing about a shadow of a shadow”, and recalled what was happening with the independent authorities when “we had reached the point in 2014 where we could not appoint a chairman of the Broadcasting Council, and I was also a government spokesperson at the time, and I was saying to them ‘do you want to appoint Manolis Glezos’? ”No, God forbid, there will be elections without a Broadcasting Council”, they told me, SYRIZA at the time, Mr Tsipras rebounding.”
He even described in detail the changes that have taken place since then: “Then there was an agreement, that is, we in ’15-’16 agreed on several authorities, all the independent authorities came out, and then there was a new system by law where, instead of each party coming in and disagreeing and putting their own person and so on, we said that biographies should be submitted, by way of APSP, that the parties should look at them and a selection would be made.”
And coming to yesterday, Sofia Voultepsi said that these CVs came to Parliament, to the Committee on Institutions and Transparency, “and there was a fight, that is, as if we were going to put a planetary leader, over people who had submitted their CVs and it was all serious and they had to be selected. So New Democracy accepts that Ms. Sygouna should be put in the one Authority, which was proposed by PASOK, there was Mr. Makridimitris and it becomes a huge thing, insidious.”
And the sneaky thing is that “PASOK, instead of saying we agree on these persons, come and vote, votes for only one person so that then Mr. Androulakis, who I can’t really understand his psyche, can come out and say ‘we succeeded, we got ours and we didn’t get anyone else’. So therefore Mr Androulakis cannot talk about diversion. If someone makes the diversion, it is himself” said Sofia Voultepsi to correct the journalist that Nikos Androulakis spoke of a coup, as similarly Alexis Tsipras also speaks of a coup.
“Yes, yes, we know these things of Tsipras, who is rebounding now,” Mrs Voultepsi commented mockingly and turned again to Mr Androulakis and his extreme rhetoric about the “Maximou gang”.
“He cannot say there is a gang in Maximou, and refer to specific individuals. When Androulakis says names Mitsotakis, Dimitriadis, and not gang in general or blue gang, to say it is an exaggeration. Here it is slander. Mitsotakis is prime minister – after all, he has endured it all – but the other man has gone and has his job, he is a lawyer.You can’t come under a supposed immunity – which for libel there is none – and say ‘Demetriades-conspiracy’, what will his clients say if he takes him to court, what will the court say?”asked the New Democracy MP, thus sounding the alarm about the downhill slide that PASOK’s opposition tactics have taken in the desperate attempt to hold back its lymfata rates in view of the resurgence of Alexis Tsipras, who is today signing his manifesto for the start of the Spring-Summer 2026 season.
