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EUROKINISSI / DIMITROPOULOS SOTIRIS
ΕΦ.ΣΥΝ.
Stavros Kontonis’ statements yesterday, strangely, one day after Golden Dawn’s conviction, about the SYRIZA government’s change of the Penal Code, were duly used by the ruling party.
Both St. Petsas and ND, with very clear micropolitical convenience, accused their predecessors that with the new Code they opened a window for a more favorable criminal treatment of the criminal organization, with the result that the convicted fall into the soft and not are deprived of their political rights.
But according to reputable lawyers and litigants, the reality is completely different. The deprivation of civil rights, according to the Constitution, can be done if the case is finalized.
Today we have a historic judicial decision, but this is a first instance. The convicted have the right to resort to the following levels of Justice, seeking a better result. The issue of civil rights still has a long way to go.
If SYRIZA has a responsibility, it is that it promoted the new Penal Code to vote at the end of its term of government, instead of leaving it as a pending issue for the ND. It could have done it and did not do it, like most of the judges, the legal world -and not only- demanded at that time.
From the moment he decided to pass the new Code, based on the legislation, he was forced to vote on it exactly as he received it from the drafting committee that drafted it. Without the slightest change.
The current government knows it. You are also aware that changes could be made to the new Code after its adoption. That is to say, from the government of ND, since shortly after the adoption of the Code, SYRIZA opposed it.
The current Mitsotakis government amended the new Penal Code last fall with law 4637/2019. Why didn’t you include amendments to the issues for which you now blame the previous government?
Does all this hypocritical behavior hide your annoyance at the impact of yesterday’s historic court decision? Are you trying to cover up this impact by changing the political debate and controversy?
