{"id":1955,"date":"2026-04-22T11:34:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T08:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=1955"},"modified":"2026-04-22T11:34:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T08:34:00","slug":"thanos-plevris-on-opekepe-i-will-vote-in-favour-of-lifting-the-immunity-of-mps-all-will-be-acquitted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=1955","title":{"rendered":"Thanos Plevris on OPEKEPE: I will vote in favour of lifting the immunity of MPs, all will be acquitted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanos Plevris will vote for the waiver of immunity of 13 <b>NDW MPs<\/b> named in the two new files on the OPEKEPE.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement to ERT, Minister of Immigration and Asylum, <b>Thanos Plevris<\/b>, stressed that he will vote in favour of the waivers of immunity, discussed today in Parliament, as &#8220;unlike ministers who when a file is sent negligently we have to evaluate the substance, <b>in the case of MPs we do not evaluate the substance. Immunity is lifted if it falls or does not fall within the scope of parliamentary activity<\/b>,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>He also expressed the view that &#8220;<b>all will be acquitted, but the vast majority will be filed and will not even reach the court<\/b>.&#8221; &#8220;So I understand fellow MPs who are arguing that they want the case to be filed so that they can show that this is a ridiculous charge,&#8221; he said. He added that<b>&#8220;the European Public Prosecutor is also being judged, as she is a prosecutor.&#8221;<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Pleyris commented that for him the cases could have come as a whole. &#8220;I cannot know if there is a purpose, but I see a shortcoming that while the European Public Prosecutor knows that sending a file creates a political fact, she had all the time and could have sent the OPEKEPE case as a whole.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He also stressed that <b>&#8220;lifting immunity does not mean prosecution.&#8221;<\/b><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>&lt;\/html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanos Plevris will vote for the lifting of the immunity of 13 Southwest MPs mentioned in the two new files on the OPEKEPE case.In his statements to the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1955","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=1955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1955\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}