{"id":3483,"date":"2026-05-01T08:55:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T05:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=3483"},"modified":"2026-05-01T08:55:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T05:55:00","slug":"pavlopoulos-late-sensitivity-to-the-rule-of-law-and-his-inarticulateness-under-syriza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=3483","title":{"rendered":"Pavlopoulos&#8217; &#8220;late&#8221; sensitivity to the rule of law and his &#8220;inarticulateness&#8221; under SYRIZA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is well known that since the day that the ND government did not nominate Prokopis Pavlopoulos for the presidency, he has gone &#8220;guerrilla&#8221; and is behaving like a&#8230; party leader of Kalamata. <\/p>\n<p>When his political friend and deputy justice minister Mimis Papaggelopoulos was saying, without a chip on his shoulder, under his Maximou (with no evidence, as it turned out after the filings for all 10 politicians targeted by the Tsipras system in the Novartis scandal) about the &#8220;biggest scandal since the creation of the Greek state&#8221;) he was speechless. <\/p>\n<p><b>When all the political opponents of the Tsipras system were vindicated, he was again speechless. <\/b>When his political friend Alexis Tsipras was playing the country at dice with the parody referendum, something was wrong with his vocal cords again. <\/p>\n<p>When Tsipras was putting on his lousy show at the operations center a few hours after the Holocaust at Mati with 104 dead, Pavlopoulos was again speechless. <\/p>\n<p>When Contonis (Justice Minister under SYRIZANEL, please) was talking about Justice sub-ministries at Maximos under Tsipras, and again &#8211; today&#8217;s -lazy Pavlopoulos <b>was whistling indifferently in the gardens of the Presidential Palace. <\/b><\/p>\n<p>We could mention other stories about the &#8220;voicelessness&#8221; of Prokopis Pavlopoulos, but <b>there is no point.<\/b> Besides, it is known that since the day the government of the Southwestern Democratic Party did not nominate him for President <b>he has gone out to &#8220;guerrilla&#8221; and behaves like a&#8230; party leader of Kalamata.  <\/b><\/p>\n<h2>Government&#8217;s resounding response to&#8230; talkative jurist<\/h2>\n<p>In response to a question about statements by former President Prokopis Pavlopoulos, government spokesman <b>Pavlos Marinakis<\/b> stressed that <b>&#8220;legal scholars of unquestionable prestige know that when the prosecutor of the Supreme Court issues an order, it cannot be questioned by any party, neither by the government nor by the opposition.&#8221; <\/b><\/p>\n<p>But Marinakis didn&#8217;t stop there. He added that <b>&#8220;these things used to happen, such as prosecutions on demand and decisions on demand.<\/b> There were the so-called Justice Paramilitary Ministries, which operated in our country during the days of the Tsipras government. This has been said by the Minister of Justice of the previous government, Mr Kontonis. And of course we had convictions of ministers.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>But the government spokesman saved the best for last. <b>&#8220;Now in our country there are no more Justice sub-ministries, the judges decide as they see fit, with their legal documentation.<\/b> The prosecutor of the Supreme Court issued another order, just as we did not comment on the first instance decision of the first instance judge, which has been appealed and we will have a second instance trial, so we will not comment on the Supreme Court&#8217;s decision. Fortunately, judicial decisions are not put to a vote either in Parliament or anywhere else and we are moving on&#8221; said Pavlos Marinakis&#8230; and if he understood, Prokopis Pavlopoulos understood. <\/p>\n<p>We recall that <b>the Supreme Court prosecutor was the recommendation of the majority of the Plenum of Judges and Prosecutors,<\/b> that is, the Plenum of all the country&#8217;s Supreme Judges and Prosecutors, and a thorough one at that. <\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is known that since the day that the government of the Southwest did not nominate Prokopis Pavlopoulos as President of Greece, it has gone out to &#8220;guerrilla&#8221; and behaves like&#8230; &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3484,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3483","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\/3483","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=3483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}