{"id":5733,"date":"2026-05-15T17:58:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T14:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=5733"},"modified":"2026-05-15T17:58:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T14:58:00","slug":"kyranakis-on-androulakis-the-constitution-says-that-it-is-forbidden-for-a-member-of-parliament-to-have-a-client-in-the-public-sector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=5733","title":{"rendered":"Kyranakis on Androulakis: The constitution says that it is forbidden for a member of parliament to have a client in the public sector"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <b>Konstantinos Kyranakis<\/b> invoked the <b>Article 57<\/b> immunity in the <b>property<\/b> <b>Androulakis<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<b>Article 57 of the constitution says that it is prohibited for a member of parliament to have a business with Public<\/b>,&#8221; <b>Constantine Kyranakis<\/b> said, commenting on the case with the <b>property of Nikos Androulakis<\/b> with <b>PASOK<\/b> responding to the deputy <b>Minister of Transport<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In 2009, a few days after George Papandreou took over as prime minister and a few weeks before Greece entered the first memorandum, <b>a property owned by Mr Androulakis was rented for 10,000 euros to Hellenic Land Registry SA at the time<\/b>,&#8221; <b>Kyranakis<\/b> told Action 24.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I also had a question when I went through this organization, why the <strong>Greek state<\/strong> undertook to renovate the property, to give money not the <strong>lessor<\/strong>, but the Greek state,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We come to the time when Mr. <b>Androulakis<\/b> becomes a deputy and then a leader within a political party. <strong>Article 57 of the constitution says that it is forbidden for an MP to have a business activity with the public as a client<\/strong>,&#8221; said <b>Konstantinos Kyranakis<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So this property is leased in some other way, <strong>is not a business activity?<\/strong>&#8221; he asked, adding: &#8220;<b>Is it allowed for other MPs to rent their properties to the Greek state, to have the Greek state as a client?<\/b>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, the minister called on <strong>constitutionalists<\/strong> to give a <strong>legal interpretation<\/strong> on this issue and whether it is legal for the above to happen under Article 57 of the Constitution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Konstantinos Kyranakis invoked the incompatibility of article 57 for the case of the Androulakis property.<br \/>\n&#8220;Article 57 of the constitution says that &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5734,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5733","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\/5733","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=5733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}