{"id":5725,"date":"2026-05-15T17:10:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T14:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=5725"},"modified":"2026-05-15T17:10:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T14:10:00","slug":"maria-syrengela-pasok-compares-disparate-things-and-turns-a-blind-eye-to-the-androulakis-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=5725","title":{"rendered":"Maria Syrengela: PASOK compares disparate things and turns a blind eye to the Androulakis case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"398\">The issue with the &#8220;<b>background&#8221;<\/b> of Mr. <b>Androulakis <\/b>has political as well as moral dimensions.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"398\">&#8220;The opposition <b>official <b>opposition<\/b> is drumming up. We did not question the legality, but we raised the <b>ethical aspect<\/b> of the case. The <b>PASOK <\/b>refers to an earlier case involving Ms. <b>Bakoyannis<\/b>. At that time, a question had been raised about her <br \/>Pathos in Parliament, her immunity was requested to be lifted and she was subsequently vindicated in court. That case had caused a great political uproar.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"400\" data-end=\"749\">The issue with the <b>&#8220;past affairs&#8221;<\/b> of <b>Androulakis<\/b> has political and <b>ethical dimensions<\/b>. Let me remind you that Ms Bakoyannis herself had at that time brought the political issue into the public debate. So what are we comparing? Disparate things? Imagine if a member of the New Democracy had been in Mr. <b>Androulakis&#8217;s<\/b> position today.<\/a> What would have happened then?<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"751\" data-end=\"1319\">Very often in Parliament the opposition, and especially <b>PASOK<\/b>, converges with the views of Ms. Konstantopoulou and, in the vast majority of cases, its MPs raise issues of legitimacy,&#8221; said in an interview with Naftemporiki TV the New Democracy&#8217;s deputy B2 West Sector of Athens, <b>Maria Syreggela,<\/b> commenting on statements made by members of the <b>PASOK<\/b> &#8211; Movement for Change for an earlier case concerning the &#8220;past affairs&#8221; of Dora Bakoyannis.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1321\" data-end=\"1443\"><b>On the reactions expressed by members of New Democracy, Ms. Syrengela said:<\/b><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1445\" data-end=\"1974\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">&#8220;Because I am a person who comes from the very beginnings of the party<b>, I understand the anguish<\/b> and the different opinions that may exist. But what we should never forget is that too much <b>stuff<\/b> has been done in recent years and we have to acknowledge that. We see in <b>our everyday life<\/b> that people are recognizing it and a large portion of citizens are welcoming it. The <b>New Democracy is a large popular party<\/b> with different views, but in the end they converge and we come out united.&#8221;<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The issue with Mr Androulakis&#8217; &#8220;maiden name&#8221; has both political and moral dimensions. &#8220;The opposition is talking about other things. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5726,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5725","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\/5725","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=5725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}