{"id":10183,"date":"2026-06-11T13:24:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T10:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=10183"},"modified":"2026-06-11T13:24:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T10:24:00","slug":"pavlos-marinakis-under-syriza-ert-had-become-a-channel-that-would-be-the-envy-of-north-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=10183","title":{"rendered":"Pavlos Marinakis: Under SYRIZA, ERT had become a channel that would be the envy of North Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A harsh attack on <b>SYRIZA<\/b> was launched by the deputy minister to the prime minister<b> Pavlos Marinakis, <\/b>saying that <b>under the SYRIZA government, ERT had become a channel that would be the envy of North Korea<\/b>, while after 2019 it was transformed into a modern reliable state broadcaster.<\/p>\n<p>The reason for the strong reaction of Mr. <b>Marinakis<\/b> were the reports by <b>Syriza&#8217;s parliamentary representative Christos Giannoulis<\/b> that he will wait to say something about the black anniversary of ERT&#8217;s closure.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You are used to talking about the black anniversary of the <b>closure of ERT<\/b> but you don&#8217;t say what happened afterwards, once ERT was reopened. Because under the <b>Syriazas<\/b> government, Public Television was turned into a channel that <b>North Korea<\/b> would envy. After 2019, it went from being a North Korean channel to a modern broadcasting media and the most reliable state media in the country.&#8221; Marinakis and continued:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was this evil government, as you used to say, that decided that the chairman and CEO would take exams through <b>ASEP<\/b>, be evaluated through a transparent system, go through a review and take exams. For the first time in 13 years, the deputy minister can choose between three candidates.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As Marinakis pointed out, &#8220;<b>nobody was interested in saving ERT<\/b> and the money that was falling into a bottomless barrel.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What fits is: look who&#8217;s talking,&#8221; the deputy minister pointedly remarked to the prime minister.<\/p>\n<p>Still, Mr. Marinakis spoke of &#8220;<b>parties<\/b> who a year and a half ago, taking advantage of a <b>tragedy<\/b>, created the <b>wooden gang<\/b>&#8220;, of &#8220;<b>party-insurgents<\/b> who spoke of a government of viceroys, discounting the decision of Justice.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We insist that <b>Justice<\/b> will provide all the answers. We are not discounting anything. Leave the role of the prosecutor to the prosecutor, don&#8217;t rush, and if there is anything else, the judiciary will decide,&#8221; he stressed.<\/p>\n<p>Referring to the amendment on ERT, Mr. Marinakis noted that &#8220;we managed, after the agreement of all parties, to settle the issue with a <b>law<\/b> that enables those who have the evidence to step on it and use it.&#8221;<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Deputy Minister of State to the Prime Minister Pavlos Marinakis launched a harsh attack on SYRIZA, stressing that under the SYRIZA government, ERT had become a channel that would &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10184,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}