{"id":2063,"date":"2026-04-22T18:57:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T15:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=2063"},"modified":"2026-04-22T18:57:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T15:57:00","slug":"lakis-vassiliadis-i-ask-for-my-immunity-to-be-lifted-no-shadow-to-remain-on-my-face-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=2063","title":{"rendered":"Lakis Vassiliadis: I ask for my immunity to be lifted &#8211; No shadow to remain on my face"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"160\" data-end=\"303\">His <b>waiver of immunity<\/b> so that the case can be investigated has been requested by <b>a href=&#8221;https:\/\/tomanifesto&#8221;&gt;the <a href=\"https:\/\/tomanifesto.gr\/nea-dimokratia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ND<\/b> <strong data-start=\"241\" data-end=\"282\">Lakis Vassiliadis<\/strong>, speaking in <b>the Parliament<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"305\" data-end=\"557\">During the discussion of the prosecutor&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/tomanifesto.gr\/eyropaiki-eisaggelia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">prosecutor&#8217;s office<\/b> file<\/a>, Mr. <b>Vassiliadis<\/b> stressed that he <b>wished to give the judiciary the opportunity to fully examine the case<\/b> in order to prove that there was no shadow in his conduct.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"559\" data-end=\"773\">&#8220;<b>I owe it first to myself, then to my family and to the citizens who trusted me to show that there is nothing wrong<\/b>,&#8221; he said, stressing that he is calling for his <b>waiver of immunity<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"775\" data-end=\"1010\">The MP noted that the implication of his name is based on transcripts of conversations in which he said <strong data-start=\"895\" data-end=\"913\">he was not involved<\/strong>, and argued that the case involves a request from a cattle farmer that ultimately <strong data-start=\"980\" data-end=\"1009\">did not yield any benefit<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1012\" data-end=\"1243\">He even cited evidence in the <b>file<\/b> that there was no intervention or audit modification by <b>OPECEP<\/b>, noting that &#8220;<b>no favours or illegal acts<\/b> were done.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1245\" data-end=\"1445\">At the same time, he called for the <strong data-start=\"1267\" data-end=\"1304\">rapid completion of the process<\/strong>, so that no shadows remain against him, stressing that for him it is a matter of responsibility and credibility towards the citizens.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1447\" data-end=\"1578\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">&#8220;<b>I don&#8217;t want any doubt left on my face. I will act with honesty, transparency and trust in the judiciary<\/b>,&#8221; he concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lakis Vassiliadis, a member of the New Democracy party, asked for the lifting of his immunity in order to investigate the case.<br \/>\nDuring the discussion of the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2064,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2063","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\/2063","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=2063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}