{"id":1566,"date":"2026-04-20T16:02:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T13:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=1566"},"modified":"2026-04-20T16:02:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T13:02:00","slug":"pavlos-marinakis-for-waiver-of-immunity-there-is-no-question-of-party-discipline-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=1566","title":{"rendered":"Pavlos Marinakis for waiver of immunity: &#8220;There is no question of party discipline&#8221; (video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Government spokesman Pavlos Marinakis made it clear, while briefing political editors, that there is no question of <strong>party discipline<\/strong> ahead of the vote on the <strong>waiver of immunity deputies<\/strong> included in <b>documents <\/b>of European Public Prosecutor&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n<div class=\"oembed_media\" data-emebed-provider=\"YouTube\">\n<div class=\"dp-youtube-video dp-embed-video\" data-embed=\"2OjKPzUvplc\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2OjKPzUvplc?feature=oembed\">\n<div class=\"play-button\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>As he said, &#8220;<em>in such votes<\/em> it is not usual for there to be a question of party discipline, <\/strong>nor will there be in this case<\/em>,&#8221; stressing that the attitude of MPs will be shaped by their conscience and their institutional role.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, he pointed out that the same <strong>deputies have requested the lifting of their immunity,<\/strong>stating that this does not constitute an admission of guilt but, on the contrary, <em>&#8220;an expression of confidence in their innocence<\/em>&#8221; and an intention to prove it before the justice system. He warned, however, that discussions of <strong>differentiations <\/strong>may create<\/strong> misleading impressions, <\/strong>stating that<strong>&#8220;<em>if the lifting of immunity for some is not voted for and voted for by others, it is like discounting who is innocent and who is guilty&#8221;<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>He concluded by noting that MPs, as e<strong>representatives of citizens<\/strong>, have the final say in such a process, calling for avoiding hasty conclusions based on leaks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Government spokesman Pavlos Marinakis clarified, during the briefing of political editors, that there is no question of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1567,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1566","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\/1566","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=1566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}