{"id":3854,"date":"2026-05-04T12:25:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T09:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=3854"},"modified":"2026-05-04T12:25:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T09:25:00","slug":"sophia-vultepsi-the-absence-of-dimitriadis-is-a-problem-for-the-executive-state-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=3854","title":{"rendered":"Sophia Vultepsi: The absence of Dimitriadis is a problem for the executive state (video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The remark that<b> &#8220;without Dimitriadis there is no man who connects Maximou with ministers and deputies&#8221;<\/b> was made by <b>Sofia Voultepsi<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>Asked specifically at BankingNews.gr about interventions by New Democracy MPs in relation to the governance model, the former minister and MP referred to the poor functioning of the so-called executive state due to the absence of Gregory Dimitriadis.<\/p>\n<p>In her statements on the MAGGA show on BNtv, Sofia Voultepsi also referred to the reactivation of <b>Alexis Tsipras<\/b>, saying that <b>&#8220;he has told so many lies and unfortunately, people don&#8217;t change&#8221;<\/b>. He called <b>Zoe Konstantopoulou<\/b> &#8220;a component of the extremes&#8221;.<\/p>\n<h3>Hate rhetoric<\/h3>\n<p>The ND MP also criticized &#8220;the political and hate rhetoric&#8221; of the <b>opposition<\/b>, as she said it &#8220;leads to the far right&#8221; and turned her fire against PASOK for &#8220;creating the institutionalized difference.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>About the stance of the opposition on the issue of surveillance, she said: &#8220;<b>PASOK has been blaming prosecutors throughout time, it is clear that Dimitriadis had no knowledge of the backlinks<\/b>.&#8221; She added that &#8220;legal backlinks existed under SYRIZA as well, which increased them from 5,000 to 10,000-15,000.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>Samaras held meetings with Turkey<\/h3>\n<p>As for <b>Antonis Samaras<\/b>&#8216;s interventions on foreign policy issues, Sofia Voultepsi said the former prime minister&#8217;s reactions and statements were exaggerated, recalling: &#8220;Samaras also held meetings with Turkey and then Navtexes were issued and during his days Turkish ships were cruising.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In reference to the<b> OPEKEPE<\/b> files on the involvement of political figures, she noted: <b>&#8220;It is clear from the dossiers that the MPs did not break the law.&#8221;<\/b> He made a special reference to the e-mail of Notis Mitarakis, saying: &#8220;Mercy! We all send e-mails for those who know to evaluate it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>Kovesi should not enter our fields<\/h3>\n<p>Finally, Sofia Voueltechi commented on the attitude of <b>Laura Kovesi<\/b>, noting: &#8220;The European Public Prosecutor&#8217;s Office is going beyond the call of duty, not telling us what MPs will do. Romania has no experience of separation of powers.&#8221; He urged the head of the <b>European Public Prosecutor<\/b> to &#8220;stop communicating and stay out of our territory&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the full episode of MAGGA here:<\/p>\n<div class=\"oembed_media\" data-emebed-provider=\"YouTube\">\n<div class=\"dp-youtube-video dp-embed-video\" data-embed=\"GHuRCo3nXwg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GHuRCo3nXwg?feature=oembed\">\n<div class=\"play-button\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sofia Voultepsi made the remark that &#8220;without Dimitriadis there is no person who connects Maximou with the ministers and MPs&#8221;.<br \/>\n&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3855,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3854","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\/3854","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=3854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}