{"id":1729,"date":"2026-04-21T11:33:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T08:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=1729"},"modified":"2026-04-21T11:33:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T08:33:00","slug":"georgiades-fires-at-pasok-for-hypocrisy-when-they-called-for-disciplinary-proceedings-against-popi-papandreou","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=1729","title":{"rendered":"Georgiades fires at PASOK for hypocrisy: when they called for disciplinary proceedings against Popi Papandreou"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Accusing PASOK of hypocrisy, <b>Adonis Georgiades<\/b> has criticized the <b>European Public Prosecutor&#8217;s Office. <\/b><\/p>\n<p>The health minister is responding to the <b>&#8220;far-right bully&#8221; and &#8220;anti-establishment&#8221; <\/b>characterizations<\/b> he has been accused of by the opposition party for his criticism of the legal handling of the Greek prosecutor, Ms. Papandreou, recalling PASOK&#8217;s <b>actions in 2014<\/b> when it called for her <b>disciplinary prosecution<\/b> for having initiated proceedings against the then party president.<\/p>\n<p>The Health Minister&#8217;s post details: <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Count how many times these days the PASOK party, either through <b>Nikos Androulakis,<\/b> or through their press spokesman <b>Kostas Tsoukalas<\/b>, or the &#8220;lawmaker&#8221; <b>Panagiotis Doudonis<\/b> have called me an &#8220;extreme right-wing bully&#8221;, &#8220;anti-establishment&#8221; etc. because he says &#8220;I am attacking the European Public Prosecutor&#8217;s Office&#8221; because I criticize the legal manipulations of the Greek appointed prosecutor Mrs. Papandreou&#8230; the Panhellenic Socialist Movement is shocked by this criticism of me, I am unacceptable, they can&#8217;t stand this in Pasok&#8230;. https:\/\/www.news247.gr\/politik&#8230; of course when they called for her disciplinary action because she had initiated proceedings against the then PASOK president it was just noon&#8230;.you said I hate hypocrisy.&#8221; <\/p>\n<figure>\n<div class=\"embed-responsive\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"el\" dir=\"ltr\">Count how many times these days the @pasok either via @androulakisnick or via their spokesman Mr. Tsoukalas<\/a> or the &#8220;lawmakers&#8221; @pandoudonis have called me a &#8220;far-right bully&#8221;, &#8220;anti-establishment&#8221; etc. because he says &#8220;I am attacking the European Public Prosecutor&#8217;s Office&#8221;&#8230; pic.twitter.com\/H5DWSmH0cO <\/p>\n<p> &#8211; Adonis Georgiadis (@AdonisGeorgiadi) April 21, 2026 <\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>As reported in the Big Mouth column of powergame.gr, then anti-corruption prosecutor Poppy Papandreou had in 2014 turned against then-PASOK president and vice-president of the Samaras government, <b>Evangelos Venizelos<\/b>, as well as former Finance Minister <b>Giorgos Papaconstantinou<\/b>, over the submarine case. As a result, PASOK turned against the prosecutor and asked for&#8230; disciplinary control.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Back then, when PASOK was in coalition with the &#8220;infamous Right&#8221; (and not with any right-wing party, but with the Samara version), sending a file to the Parliament could be considered a reason for disciplinary control of the prosecutor in charge. Now that<b> the &#8220;needle&#8221; remains stuck at 10 and change<\/b>, the actions of the (coincidentally the same) prosecutor look to Charilaou Trikoupis like something like a state statute, which anyone who questions it endangers the constitution, the rule of law, the democratic acquis of the country and I don&#8217;t know what else,&#8221; the Big Mouth column says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\n    Adonis Georgiades accused PASOK of hypocrisy in his criticism of the European Public Prosecutor&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n<p>    The Health Minister responds&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1730,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1729","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\/1729","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=1729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}