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Friday, September 11, 2020, 00:02
From the outset, Kyriakos Mitsotakis showed that he attaches particular importance to the functioning of Parliament and its work. He asked ministers to answer questions while he was often on the podium answering questions or in scheduled or pre-day discussions. But the deputies? Yesterday’s image in the context of the vote to lift the immunity of Pavlos Polakis raises questions.
About 80 MPs from ND were present at the plenary session, the subject of which was the lifting of Pavlos Polakis’ immunity following a libel suit by Parapolitikon publisher Giannis Kourtakis. The absence of the others meant that immunity was not lifted, something that the SYRIZA deputy sought despite the fact that it was he who led the change in the article on the protection of ministers.
The absence of the ND deputies raises questions. If they were due to their opposition to the lifting of immunity and their agreement with the ethics and style of Pavlos Polakis’s positions, they might well have attended and voted against. In addition, he took the absence as support for his face and for that he thanked those who were convinced of his innocence through an email.
But if the 80 ND MPs just didn’t go to Parliament with something … better to do, then the problem runs deeper. Because your role is to attend meetings. The plenary session and the committees in which they have been appointed. Take a position and vote for or against the government’s proposals. They judge for themselves.
The number of absentees is great. And this should concern the party and the government. At a time when an effort is being made to deal with crises such as public health, the economy and relations with Turkey, MPs must be in office, regardless of the issues being debated in Parliament. . In fact, pressure the government to implement its program and to promote reforms through the necessary legislative regulations.
The image is not good. If some rest from the polls, the absence of a serious official opposition and the inability of Alexis Tsipras to present a new proposal, it is a fact and politically proven that they are changing with surprising speed.
Yesterday’s picture of the ND Parliamentary Group was a bell of how it worked. A campaign that should awaken the leaders and activate the reflexes of the government and the party.
On the other hand, if some deputies or ministers consider that it is above and it is not appropriate for them to participate in similar parliamentary procedures including themselves in the center and composition (for example, KINAL that the center claims that it voted … present), then a Internet publication gives the real dimension: “Center does not mean noodles, tea and yogurt 0%”.
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