{"id":2870,"date":"2026-04-28T07:35:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T04:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=2870"},"modified":"2026-04-28T07:35:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T04:35:00","slug":"andreas-loverdos-in-manifesto-justice-is-not-a-tool-for-political-exploitation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=2870","title":{"rendered":"Andreas Loverdos in &#8220;Manifesto&#8221;: justice is not a tool for political exploitation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Statement by <b>Andreas Loverdou<\/b> to the Manifesto on the decision of the prosecutor of the <b>Aristaio Pagos<\/b> not to withdraw the wiretapping case from the file.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The <b>principle of separation of powers is directly violated.<\/b> The confirmation by two Supreme Court prosecutors is clear and leaves no room for misinterpretation. <\/p>\n<p>From the very first moment I had indicated that there was no question of spying and today this is fully confirmed. The second <b>Zisis<\/b> dividend, to which I had first publicly referred, is now institutionally reinforced by the <b>Tzavella Act<\/b>, giving a clear and well-founded answer. <\/p>\n<p>From there, there is a line that cannot be crossed. The Justice is not a tool for political exploitation. Especially when members of the legislature judge decisions based solely on their political interest, they directly violate the principle of separation of powers. <b>A parliamentarian is not entitled to separate judicial decisions based on his or her desire<\/b>. Judges, moreover, for anyone with a modicum of institutional sensitivity &#8211; a member of the legislative function and anyone else &#8211; should neither be praised nor blamed. <b>Selective acceptance of the judiciary is not an opinion, it is a direct affront to the rule of law.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A statement by Andreas Loverdos in &#8220;Manifesto&#8221; on the decision of the prosecutor of the Supreme Court not to withdraw the case of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2871,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2870","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\/2870","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=2870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}