Greek Parliament

Ukraine is waging a battle for democracy, against authoritarianism and the mentality that gave birth to Nazism. Let this be the message we keep from Zelensky’s remarks.

One might look at the labour bill as a great wager for the government, not only because it will count its forces as it measures the reactions of the opposition.

The ex-justice minister maintains that the last-minute approval of the Penal Code by Parliament in 2019 determined the timing of elections as they were postponed for one week to pass it into law.

Certainly individuals who have been implicated such as [former digital policy minister Nikos] Pappas and [former alternate justice minister Dimitris] Papangelopoulos must testify.

The country is being tested as is Greek society with major crises such as the concomitant public health and economic crises.

 The testimony of protected witnesses in the parliamentary probe of Dimitris Papangelopoulos’ alleged meddling in the Novartis investigation shed light on the apparent ulterior motives in one of the darkest affairs since the fall of the junta

The inter-party consensus in election included New Democracy, main opposition SYRIZA, and the centre-left Movement for Change. Many expressed hopes that this political consensus may be maintained .

The recognition of the right of Greeks abroad to vote in Greek elections should be the first step in the direction of more broadly based suffrage.

A lawyer by training, Tasoulas served as Culture and Athletics Minister in the New Democracy government of Antonis Samaras.

In order for the country to transcend the crisis on a solid footing it must definitively abandon the dysfunctions of the past.

'We are reacting always with prudence and strategic calm to the provocations in the Aegean. The number of violations of our national airspace and territorial waters has reached a high level.'

The majority was comprised of SYRIZA’s 145 MPs and eight more independents including MPs of the former Potami party parliamentary group.

The Papachristopoulos saga with his on again off again resignation was spurred by the MPs decision to break the party line on three crucial votes.

This government systematically attempted to manipulate democratic institutions, including the judiciary.

According to Greek Parliamentary rules, for a political party to be recognised as a parliamentary group it must have five MPs elected on its ticket.

There were 153 yeas, 146 nays, and one MP who declared himself present. The 145 MPs of ruling SYRIZA were joined by eight independent MPs and some from smaller parties.

The ruling party revealed to MPs for the first time that the amendments to the Constitution of FYROM will come into effect only after the Greek Parliament ratifies the protocol on FYROM’s admission to Nato.

New Democracy leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis said it is inconceivable for the agreement to be ratified without parliament having been given the complete text of FYROM’s Constitution with the amendments stipulated in the accord.

There are concerns in Greece that MPs who have declared their support may switch at the last moment, so as to ensure their political survival in the general election.

The term used by FYROM's PM implies that the Greek part of the geographical territory of Macedonia (including Thessaloniki) is unliberated and cut off from the state of FYROM

'The investigative committee [that is now preparing its report] cannot attribute a crime to a particular minister, but it can describe his responsibilities, which will be evaluated by the judiciary and by the parliamentary committee which will conduct the subsequent preliminary criminal probe,' said a majority MP.