{"id":11257,"date":"2026-06-17T13:23:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T10:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=11257"},"modified":"2026-06-17T13:23:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T10:23:00","slug":"ioanna-mandrou-kovesi-appeals-to-the-supreme-court-regarding-the-terms-of-office-of-greek-european-prosecutors-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=11257","title":{"rendered":"Ioanna Mandrou: Kovesi Appeals to the Supreme Court Regarding the Terms of Office of Greek European Prosecutors (video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The news that the head of <b>the European Public Prosecutor&#8217;s Office<\/b>, Laura Kovesi, appealed to the plenary session of the <b>Supreme Court<\/b>, requesting that the decision of the Supreme Judicial Council to extend the terms of the three Greek European Prosecutors by two years be overturned, <strong>Poppy Papandreou<\/strong>, <strong>Charikleia<\/strong> <strong>Thanou<\/strong> and <strong>Dionysios<\/strong> <b>Mouzaki, <\/b>as reported by journalist<b> Ioanna Mandrou.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>In her appeal, Lausa Kovesi, as the journalist reported on One, is seeking a <b>five-year extension of her term<\/b> rather than a two-year one. \u201cKovesi herself appealed to the plenary session of the Supreme Court and said, \u2018You were wrong to grant a two-year extension (to the terms of Greek prosecutors);\u00a0I have given them 5 years and I insist on 5,\u201d Ioanna Mandrou specifically stated.<\/p>\n<p>The case will be heard by the Supreme Court at the final hearing before the end of the current judicial year, on June 30, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>According to Ioanna Mandrou, if the Plenary Session of the Supreme Court decides that \u201cwe hold all the cards,\u201d it will be a major defeat for Laura Kovesi.\u00a0<b>\u201cIf some 90 Supreme Court justices gather and tell her that we hold the knife and we hold the melon, Ms. Kovesi\u2019s institutional defeat will be significant,\u201d<\/b> she said specifically.<\/p>\n<p>The journalist also expressed the view that the relevant Greek authorities treated the issue of OPEKEPE  seriously.<\/p>\n<p>In her remarks, the journalist said that, contrary to the impression that was attempted to be created\u2014namely, that the European Public Prosecutor\u2019s Office was the one handling the matter\u2014\u00a0most arrests related to OPEKEPE were made by Greek authorities.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<div class=\"embed-responsive\">   <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The report that the head of the European Public Prosecutor\u2019s Office, Laura Kovesi, had appealed to the plenary session of the Supreme Court, requesting that the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11258,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-greece"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11257","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=11257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}