{"id":5600,"date":"2026-05-15T09:08:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T06:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=5600"},"modified":"2026-05-15T09:08:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T06:08:00","slug":"pasoktroubles-with-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=5600","title":{"rendered":"PASOKtroubles with Justice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Aryonic Court prosecutor, <b>Constantine Tzavellas<\/b>, has been summoned to appear before the PASOK.<\/p>\n<p>The request comes after the prosecutor decided not to withdraw from the file the case of <b>watching<\/b>, but mischievously the summons says it is being called for&#8230; <b>&#8220;matters concerning operational issues of Justice&#8221;.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Obviously, since the <b>Institutional and Transparency Committee<\/b> is only entitled to summon the Supreme Court prosecutor for operational issues of the judiciary (e.g. delays in issuing decisions, staff shortages, etc.).<\/p>\n<p>It is clear that if he comes, the questions will not be about judicial majors or organizational positions, but will focus exclusively on the rationale for filing the case and his personal involvement.<b>The goal is to &#8220;interrogate&#8221; the top prosecutor and have him &#8220;confess.&#8221;<\/b><\/p>\n<p>In addition, in the event that the prosecutor refuses to answer on the merits, citing judicial secrecy, his refusal will be used politically<\/b> to support the &#8220;cover-up&#8221; narrative.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>In any case, Parliament is not an investigative office and turning an institutional hearing into a &#8220;televised trial&#8221; undermines the authority of the judiciary.<b>The call in the &#8220;guise&#8221; of institutional information has a clear political purpose.<\/b><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PASOK is requesting that the Supreme Court prosecutor, Konstantinos Tzavellas, be summoned to appear before the Committee on Institutions and Transparency.<br \/>\nThe request comes&#8230;<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5601,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5600","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=5600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}