The leader of Plefsi Eleftherias (Course of Freedom) took a public stand on Thursday evening from the parliamentary podium regarding the events that unfolded during the day’s Conference of Presidents session between herself and Deputy Speaker of Parliament Giorgos Georgandas. Konstantopoulou spoke of the “eagerness of Mr. Georgandas — who, while the OPEKEPE case was still open, had served as Minister of Rural Development and was privately approaching opposition members, telling them ‘I am clean,’ ‘I don’t stand behind these things,’ ‘let me tell you this,’ ‘let me tell you that.'”
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Konstantopoulou: The moment the OPEKEPE case closed, he became the government’s top enforcer again
Continuing her offensive against the Deputy Speaker, she argued that “the moment the OPEKEPE case was closed, he became the government’s top enforcer once again. That’s when he felt safe — confident he was no longer at risk of being scrutinized. This Georgandas, who today took the chair presiding over the Conference of Presidents, was anxious about two things. The first was how to shield Mitsotakis, and the second was how to shield Tsipras — so that no one would ask questions about the interference in the judiciary and in the work of then-Prosecutor of the Supreme Court Xeni Dimitriou, who brazenly intervened in the work of prosecutor Zagoraios and the investigation into the Mati wildfire tragedy, essentially attempting to prevent the preliminary inquiry from being completed and prevent political figures from being called to account.”
She further argued that “today, before our very eyes — and I am shocked by this — the three parties (New Democracy, PASOK, SYRIZA) engaged in behind-the-scenes coordination that is corrupt and not in the direction of accountability, transparency, or judicial independence,” while also referring to what she called the “remarkable cooperation between Olga Gerovasili and Dora Bakoyannis — something that would make even the New Democracy deputy speakers of Parliament envious.”
