{"id":6740,"date":"2026-05-21T15:47:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T12:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=6740"},"modified":"2026-05-21T15:47:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T12:47:00","slug":"fire-dimitris-markopoulos-to-the-opposition-enough-with-the-cannibalism-and-man-eating-of-our-executives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=6740","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Fire&#8221; Dimitris Markopoulos to the opposition: Enough with the cannibalism and man-eating of our executives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>attack<\/b> the <b>opposition parties<\/b> against the backdrop of the <strong>OPEKEPE<\/strong> case, the parliamentary representative of the <b>ND<\/b> <strong>Dimitris Markopoulos<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Markopoulos<\/b> said meaningfully that &#8220;it seems that because the needle is stuck for the opposition parties, another committee is needed in <b>OPEKEPE<\/b> as tomorrow for <strong>wiretapping<\/strong>. <b>New parties<\/b> are also coming.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>According to <b>Markopoulos<\/b> &#8220;<b>in the previous inquiry a few months ago, there was a thorough discussion. Exhaustive<\/b>. Of course the <b>populist<\/b> forces hardly cared about all this. What they sought was a few moments of tension and insults to get the necessary video on TikTok. <b>That&#8217;s all they can do, that&#8217;s all they do. It&#8217;s not for more<\/b>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As he pointed out, &#8220;in a case not related to bribing politicians, <b>an altar of man-eating<\/b> was created<\/b>&#8221; and added that &#8220;instead of looking for the real mechanisms of corruption, instead of addressing chronic pathologies, you chose to personalize. <b>Without any evidence of formality or attempted coercion<\/b>, nor does it constitute an offence such as disloyalty against the financial interests of the EU or damage some people want to defame political figures. <b>Like Novartis where some people wanted to frame their political opponents &#8220;because they had elections to win&#8221; and so the opportunity to claim compensation from the company<\/b> was lost.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All this is happening in anticipation of Tsipras&#8217; party. <b>This pressure is leading to criminalisation. We do not even know if more desperate actions will arise in the coming days, perhaps even a motion of impeachment<\/b>. We as an institutional faction with a sense of responsibility <b>cannot allow the cannibalization of our cadres to develop without evidence. We say so far with moral-legal populism<\/b>. We draw a red line today. <b>Moralism, after all, is the sheepskin of moderation. Moralism means a lack of proposals and positions<\/b>,&#8221; concluded <b>Dmitris Markopoulos<\/b>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attack on the opposition parties against the background of the case of OPEKEPE, launched the parliamentary spokesman of the New Democracy Party Dimitris &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6741,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6740","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\/6740","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=6740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6740\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}