{"id":3024,"date":"2026-04-28T17:24:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T14:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=3024"},"modified":"2026-04-28T17:24:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T14:24:00","slug":"dimitris-markopoulos-stern-response-to-the-opposition-will-we-set-up-pasok-courts-and-syrizo-courts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=3024","title":{"rendered":"Dimitris Markopoulos&#8217; stern response to the opposition: &#8220;Will we set up PASOK courts and SYRIZO courts?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-path-to-node=\"1\"> <b>Dmitris Markopoulos<\/b> accused <b>PASOK<\/b> and <b>Syriza<\/b> of trying to set up &#8220;people&#8217;s courts&#8221; after the ruling on the <b>telephone tapping<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"2\"><b data-path-to-node=\"2\" data-index-in-node=\"0\">Eutopia attack<\/b> on the parties of <b>opposition<\/b>, <b data-path-to-node=\"2\" data-index-in-node=\"90\">Dimitris Markopoulos<\/b>, regarding the reactions to the archiving of the case of <b data-path-to-node=\"2\" data-index-in-node=\"179\">bugging<\/b>. <\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"2\">Markopoulos <\/b>exceeded the decision of the prosecutor of the <b data-path-to-node=\"2\" data-index-in-node=\"252\">Supreme Court<\/b>, arguing that the criticism made violates the boundaries between <b data-path-to-node=\"2\" data-index-in-node=\"338\">politics and judicial power<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"3\">The MP turned with particular vehemence against <b data-path-to-node=\"3\" data-index-in-node=\"54\">PASOK<\/b> and <b data-path-to-node=\"3\" data-index-in-node=\"68\">Syriza<\/b>, accusing them of attempting to challenge the institutions and impose a form of extrajudicial punishment. According to him, opposition reports of a &#8220;cover-up&#8221; undermine <b data-path-to-node=\"3\" data-index-in-node=\"276\">normality<\/b> and the stability of the country.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"4\">During his statement, <b>Dimitris Markopoulos<\/b> said: &#8220;<b>Will we set up PASOK courts and SYRIZ courts?. Excuse us, we won&#8217;t! We will not set up people&#8217;s courts!<\/b>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"6\">Mr. <b>Markopoulos <\/b>connected the attitude of the parties with previous political cases, citing:<\/p>\n<ul data-path-to-node=\"7\">\n<li>The experience of the &#8220;<b data-path-to-node=\"7,0,0\" data-index-in-node=\"21\">Novartis<\/b> case&#8221; and the phenomena of interconnection.<\/li>\n<li>The dangers of <b data-path-to-node=\"7,1,0\" data-index-in-node=\"37\">sowing doubts<\/b> against the judiciary.<\/li>\n<li>The need <b>not to &#8220;backslide&#8221; in times of political experiments<\/b>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"8\">&#8220;This is dangerous. <b>We have suffered from &#8220;sorcerer&#8217;s apprentices&#8221; or from those who are currently presented as &#8220;saviors&#8221;<\/b>we have experienced political experiments under our own skin. <b>Don&#8217;t touch the normalcy of our country<\/b> again. We must not go backwards,&#8221; he concluded his remarks, stressing that the <b data-path-to-node=\"8\" data-index-in-node=\"294\">judicial crisis<\/b> must be respected by the entire political world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dimitris Markopoulos accused PASOK and SYRIZA of trying to set up &#8220;people&#8217;s courts&#8221; after the decision on the phone calls &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3025,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3024","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\/3024","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=3024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}