The Konstantinos Kyranakis invoked the Article 57 immunity in the property Androulakis.
“Article 57 of the constitution says that it is prohibited for a member of parliament to have a business with Public,” Constantine Kyranakis said, commenting on the case with the property of Nikos Androulakis with PASOK responding to the deputy Minister of Transport.
“In 2009, a few days after George Papandreou took over as prime minister and a few weeks before Greece entered the first memorandum, a property owned by Mr Androulakis was rented for 10,000 euros to Hellenic Land Registry SA at the time,” Kyranakis told Action 24.
“I also had a question when I went through this organization, why the Greek state undertook to renovate the property, to give money not the lessor, but the Greek state,” he added.
“We come to the time when Mr. Androulakis becomes a deputy and then a leader within a political party. Article 57 of the constitution says that it is forbidden for an MP to have a business activity with the public as a client,” said Konstantinos Kyranakis.
“So this property is leased in some other way, is not a business activity?” he asked, adding: “Is it allowed for other MPs to rent their properties to the Greek state, to have the Greek state as a client?“
At the same time, the minister called on constitutionalists to give a legal interpretation on this issue and whether it is legal for the above to happen under Article 57 of the Constitution.
