{"id":1574,"date":"2026-04-20T15:31:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T12:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=1574"},"modified":"2026-04-20T15:31:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T12:31:00","slug":"zoe-konstantopoulou-caused-tension-in-the-ethics-committee-george-georgantas-we-are-not-a-court-of-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=1574","title":{"rendered":"Zoe Konstantopoulou caused tension in the Ethics Committee &#8211; George Georgantas: &#8220;We are not a court of law&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"115\" data-end=\"189\">A scene of <b>tension<\/b> was created again by <b>Zoe Konstantopoulou<\/b> in <b>Parliament<\/b> on the <b>waivers of immunity<\/b> of <b>members of parliament<\/b> in the <b>OPEKEPE<\/b> case.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"191\" data-end=\"505\">Intense controversy ensued during a meeting of the <b>House Ethics Committee<\/b>, on the issue of the <strong data-start=\"308\" data-end=\"325\">waiver of immunity<\/strong> for <strong data-start=\"345\" data-end=\"386\">Tassos Hadjivassiliou<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"391\" data-end=\"432\">Athanasios Athanasiou<\/strong>, in the context of the case of <strong data-start=\"463\" data-end=\"504\">OPEKEPE<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"507\" data-end=\"684\">The meeting was held <strong data-start=\"537\" data-end=\"563\">in closed doors<\/strong>, however, the high tones and <b>intense dialogues were reportedly noticed even outside the room<\/b>.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<div class=\"embed-responsive\">   <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Specifically, <b>President of the Electoral Alliance, Zoe Konstantopoulou<\/b>, shouted in high tones at the chairman of the committee <b>Giorgos Georgantas<\/b>: &#8220;I have more questions. will you block the questions&#8221;;<\/p>\n<p><b>Giorgos Georgantas<\/b>. What else do you want? We are not a court of law.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b>Zoe Konstantopoulou<\/b>: &#8220;I don&#8217;t understand, should we also apologize for being involved? Our duty to take some phone calls too? It is unacceptable what you are doing, you are protecting accountable! By bullying&#8230;You are preventing his examination.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Reminder, <b>Member of Parliament for the Southwest, Tasos Hadjivassiliou<\/b>, sent a memo to the Commission, which he made public, in which he said: &#8220;I unequivocally declare my desire to have my immunity lifted immediately. In order to close this case. I declare categorically that there is no question of instigating a breach of duty, based on an act that did not take place [&#8230;]. I have full confidence in the Greek justice system and its officials. Please accept this statement in order to accelerate the procedure.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mr. <b>Hatzivassiliou<\/b>, in the one-page memorandum to the Commission, refers in detail to the telephone contact he had with a producer, noting: &#8220;I acted solely within the limits of my parliamentary duties and obligations. Under no circumstances did I attempt, plan or perform any illegal act, nor did I turn against the interests of the State or the EU.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The <b>Member of the Southwestern Democratic Party, Charalambos Athanasiou<\/b>, for his part, chose to appear in person before the Commission and he too requested the lifting of his immunity. During his appearance and in conversation with parliamentary editors, he reserved the right to position himself first in the Commission regarding the prosecutor&#8217;s request, stressing however that no offence was inferred from what was reported to him. I wonder, he said, how such a dossier was sent, while pointing out that for an MP to communicate with the administration on citizens&#8217; affairs, that falls within the scope of parliamentary duties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once again, Zoe Konstantopoulou created a tense atmosphere in the House of Representatives regarding the lifting of the immunity of MPs in the OPEKEPE case.<br \/>\nIntense confrontations &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1575,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1574","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\/1574","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=1574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1574\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}