The government spokesperson Pavlos Marinakis stated in a television interview that he does not judge Dimitris Avramopoulos, described the process behind the warrant, and rejected allegations of corruption.<\/p>\n
Pavlos Marinakis commented on the case involving Dimitris Avramopoulos<\/strong>, the European arrest warrant <\/strong>for Qatargate and the public debate that has developed around the case, emphasizing that he does not intend to evaluate the former commissioner\u2019s explanations or prejudge any judicial decision.<\/p>\n Speaking on OPEN, Mr. Marinakis specifically stated that he is not in a position to judge the merits of the case. \u201cI am not a judge<\/strong>. I will not evaluate Mr. Avramopoulos\u2019s responses. I am neither condemning him nor acquitting him,\u201d he said, clearly distancing himself from the legal aspects of the case.<\/p>\n At the same time, he emphasized that in the case of the European arrest warrant<\/strong>, the prescribed procedures were followed, noting that \u201cthe procedure applicable in every case was followed\u201d and that no minister can be involved in such procedures.<\/p>\n Referring to the government\u2019s briefing, Mr. Marinakis explained that the Maximos Mansion<\/strong> began receiving information via phone calls and inquiries citing sources from Brussels<\/strong>, before the case was referred to the judiciary. As he pointed out, the prime minister has no authority to intervene in this particular process.<\/p>\n The government spokesperson also emphasized that all citizens are required to comply when summoned by the competent authorities, stating that \u201cwhen the authorities call us, we must go,\u201d and that this applies without exception.<\/p>\n Finally, he rejected allegations of widespread corruption<\/strong>, arguing that different cases cannot be conflated in order to construct a single political narrative. \u201cYou can\u2019t lump everything together to construct a narrative of corruption,\u201d he noted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Government spokesperson Pavlos Marinakis stated in a television interview that he does not judge Dimitris Avramopoulos, and described the process of …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12585,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12584","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\/12584","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=12584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12584\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Marinakis: I Am Not a Judge \u2014 The Position on Avramopoulos<\/strong><\/h3>\n
How the Maximos Mansion Was Informed and the Response to Corruption<\/strong><\/h3>\n