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The 71 dead and 392 intubated yesterday show that the most difficult week for the NSS since the start of the coronavirus pandemic has begun, but the government is focusing on the closure in the conflict with the left for the Polytechnic and displaces the political confrontation beyond the sanitary. discussion.
This is a purely political choice of the government, as the gauntlet was first lifted by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis himself during the debate in Parliament on Thursday, in fact targeting first the KKE and then the MeRA25. This was followed by the operation on Friday night in Exarchia, with comically tragic movements such as raids on souvlaki restaurants and the addition of a citizen walking the dog, and a total ban on gatherings of four people and throughout the country, announced by ELAS on Saturday night. for three days covering the anniversary of the Polytechnic.
However, a sensation was caused by the fact that the Union of Judges and Prosecutors declared the ban unconstitutional and demanded the revocation of the decision. The Union of Judges and Prosecutors invokes not so much the spirit, but the letter of the law, pointing out that the prohibition provided by article 11 para. 2 of the Constitution, refers only to a specific meeting at a specific place and time and cannot be extended to a ban and any other meeting throughout the country, as this would mean the suspension of Article 11 of the Constitution. And he called on the state “to protect public health against the pandemic, without exceeding the limits of the rule of law.”
Officially, Maximou did not comment on the announcement from the Union of Judges and Prosecutors. Unofficially, government officials referred to constitutionalist Nikos Alivizatos’s statement in Kathimerini.
Mr. Alivizatos (of whom it is recalled that he was appointed at the suggestion of the Minister of Defense Michalis Chrysochoidis head of the police violence commission) invokes the Legislative Act of March as superior to the Constitution ((article 68 § 2 of Law 4683/2020 ), which allows rallies to be banned throughout the country if there is a recommendation from the National Public Health Committee, and that no court has declared the provision unconstitutional and has expressed surprise at the ease with which, in the current circumstances, “Special Circumstances Some colleagues, but also judicial officials, were quick to classify this ban as unconstitutional, ”thus offering a clear helping hand to the government.
Therefore, it seems that the government has no intention of backing down and chooses to end the conflict on the anniversary of the Polytechnic. ELAS has not yet given a “taste”, asking Karditsa to apologize to the people who manifested on Facebook that they will participate in the Polytechnic course.
The left-wing parties in the first phase call on the government to withdraw the authoritarian and unconstitutional as the prohibition emphasizes. The government even achieved the unprecedented: SYRIZA, KKE and MeRA25 to reach an agreement! This is because after a communication between Dimitris Koutsoumbas and Alexis Tsipras and Giannis Varoufakis, SYRIZA and MeRA25 yesterday signed a text for the Polytechnic, which was drawn up at the initiative of the KKE and will be delivered today to the President of the Republic Katerina Sakkelaropoulou and the Government.
The fact of co-signing a common text is historic for the parties of the left. In the blue field, however, they believe that SYRIZA is trailing behind the KKE and will therefore leave a gap in the center.
The left-wing parties, which in the government were going ahead with the ban, had announced symbolic celebrations with the participation of some executives and keeping their distance, but they have not yet made a joint decision on what to do in the end.
The leader of the official opposition, Alexis Tsipras, will also have contacts with the other opposition parties today with the aim of a common position. There seems to be room for consultation between SYRIZA, KKE and MeRA25 on the matter.
It should be noted that the president of KINAL, Fofi Gennimata, did not sign the Perissos text yesterday, claiming according to KKE sources that in this way “the Mitsotakis game is being played”, so it remains to be seen what attitude he will take today, if communicates with the SYRIZA president. Yesterday, Mr. Koutsoumbas described the attitude of the president of KINAL as unacceptable.
The dilemma for opposition parties is whether they will insist on holding a march with as many citizens as possible to cancel the government’s plans to curb the demonstrations in practice, or whether parliamentarians will choose to protest so as not to fall into the trap of the protesters. government scammers. in the most difficult week of the coronavirus.
Even the Hellenic Solution, however, attacked the government, stating in a statement that: “For history, a total ban on all rallies across the country, that is, a universal suspension of Article 11 of the Constitution, has been made in the past, on 04/21/1967 and 11/17/1973 ”.
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