{"id":2053,"date":"2026-04-22T18:36:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T15:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=2053"},"modified":"2026-04-22T18:36:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T15:36:00","slug":"florides-legislative-regulation-for-faster-adjudication-of-mps-cases-after-the-waiver-of-immunity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=2053","title":{"rendered":"Florides: Legislative regulation for faster adjudication of MPs&#8217; cases after the waiver of immunity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"166\" data-end=\"298\"><b>Legislative legislation<\/b> to expedite cases of <b>Members of Parliament<\/b> who have <b>had their immunity<\/b> waived has been announced by <b>Minister of Justice<\/b>, <b>Giorgos Florides<\/b>, with a 10-15 day horizon.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"300\" data-end=\"615\">Speaking at the <b>Delphi Economic Forum<\/b>, Mr.<strong data-start=\"375\" data-end=\"416\">Florides<\/strong> clarified that the intervention will mainly concern <b>crimes<\/b>, as there is no question of acceleration for misdemeanours, while he stressed that <b>the regulation should be fully constitutionally compatible<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"617\" data-end=\"836\">The issue was also raised in his meeting with the head of the European Public Prosecutor&#8217;s Office <strong data-start=\"714\" data-end=\"755\">Laura Covesi<\/strong>, who &#8211; he said &#8211; <b>also asked for the acceleration of the relevant procedures.<\/b><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"838\" data-end=\"1107\">Mr. <b>Florides <\/b>reiterated that the status of appointed judges is the responsibility of the national authorities and in particular the Supreme Judicial Council, noting that <b>the request of Ms. Covesi confirms the recognition of this competence<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1109\" data-end=\"1258\">At the same time, he <b>denied that a question of constitutionality was raised by the European Public Prosecutor<\/b>, noting that this does not fall within her competence.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1260\" data-end=\"1548\">The minister <b>rejected<\/b> allegations of a generalised crisis in the judiciary<\/b>, but announced a new legislative initiative to tackle phenomena of pressure and &#8220;<b>bullying<\/b>&#8221; against judicial officials, after consulting with judicial associations and bar associations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A legislative regulation to speed up cases of MPs whose immunity has been lifted was announced by the Minister of Justice, George Florides, with &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2054,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2053","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\/2053","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=2053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2053\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}