Amendment shifts monument oversight to Defense Ministry

The authorities is moving rapidly to walk an amendment to clarify responsibilities for the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, acceptable to beryllium brought successful Parliament adjacent Tuesday.

The amendment is expected to transfer jurisdiction for the cleaning, showcasing, care, and attraction of the monument to the Ministry of National Defense. However, keeping bid and information astatine the ιστοσελίδα will stay the work of the Ministry of Citizen Protection.

The authorities justifies the urgency by aligning with the wishes of the “healthy forces of society” and the “silent majority,” a operation used by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis.

Government spokesman Pavlos Marinakis connected the enactment to citizens who “pay their taxes” and want “the cleansing of universities from troublemakers, occupiers, offenders.” Minister Kostis Hatzidakis affirmed the amendment’s submission, calling the enactment “the perfectly self-evident thing.”

Opposition parties proceed to protest, with SYRIZA’s Sokratis Famellos criticizing the determination arsenic “Trump-inspired” and aimed astatine stopping demonstrations astatine the monument.