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A nonaccomplishment to guarantee the due functioning of the University of West Attica by the existent Rector, Panagiotis Kaldis, is cited by six members of the institution’s Board of Directors successful a missive to the Minister of Education, Sophia Zacharaki, published exclusively by protothema.gr.
Towards the idiosyncratic of the Rector has already filed a proposal of nary confidence by these members portion the Council of State is pending the proceeding of the Council of State of the exertion for annulment, which helium brought against the enactment of his termination, which means that until the work of the applicable decision, helium remains successful his position, binding the Foundation with his actions oregon omissions.
As agelong arsenic the proceeding of the petition for annulment, which the Rector, Panagiotis Kaldis, has filed against the enactment of his dismissal, is pending earlier the Council of State, the bulk of interior and outer members of the West Attica University Board of Directors (PADA) stay with “tied hands”.
In a missive to the Minister of Education, Religious Affairs and Sports, Sofia Zacharaki, the six members of the PADA’s Board of Governors outline the reasons wherefore the existent Rector does not bask the assurance of the bulk of the Board’s interior and outer members. The signatories of the missive authorities successful item the reasons, which are related to superior malfunctions and irregularities successful the show of the administrative enactment by the Rector of the PADA.
It is besides recalled that the aforesaid members person already filed a question of nary assurance against the Rector Panagiotis Kaldis, whom they denounce for committing unlawful acts and continuous omissions, which are done voluntarily connected his part.
In much detail, according to the letter, the Rector engages successful deliberate obstruction, inaccurate signaling of the decisions of the assemblage successful minutes, which are past published oregon posted without the anterior support of the Board. They besides talk of the nonaccomplishment to decently use the basal rules of quorum and decision-making of the corporate bodies of the medication arsenic good arsenic his unwillingness to guarantee ineligible enactment to the members of the body.
The spearhead was the lawsuit of a tender procedure, which led to the acquisition of a spot worthy astir 8 cardinal euros, with the purpose of turning it into a Tourism Innovation Centre. According to the complaints, non-transparent procedures were followed. However, though a petition was made to cancel the tender and reopen the tender, the petition remained pending. The aforesaid was the lawsuit erstwhile the contented of the sentiment of the PADA’s Legal Service regarding the cancellation was enactment connected the table.
This not lone undermines the quality of Board members to execute their duties wrong the scope of their responsibilities, but besides raises the beardown anticipation of the nonaccomplishment of backing for the PADA owed to the work of Mr. Kaldis.
Equally opaque was the handling of the tender for the cleaning of the buildings of the University of West Attica. Although six of the 9 members of the Board of Directors explicitly stated that they abstained from making a decision, the Rector continued arsenic mean by posting connected Transparency and distorted the contented of the meeting.
Finally, the members of the SC who signed the missive to Ms. Zacharaki, reason that the Rector of the PADA systematically adopts an authoritarian attitude, done threats oregon indirect blackmail, which helium launches towards the SC members with a imperishable echo, referring them to judicial oregon disciplinary proceedings, frankincense creating a clime of intimidation but besides attacking their independency successful decision-making, which is contrary to the tone of ideology that should govern the functioning of the corporate body.
The letter
Honourable Minister,
Unfortunately, for a agelong clip now, the functioning of the Governing Council (GC) of the University of West Attica has been irreparably compromised by unlawful acts and continuous deliberate omissions of the Rector of the University. As you already know, connected 31.07.2024, six (6) members of the PADA’s Board of Directors, nether nonfiction 14.3 of Law 4957/2022, filed, for respective important reasons, a question of nary assurance against the Rector Panagiotis Kaldis. Our recourse to a question of nary assurance (as a past resort) was dictated by the continuous and systematic usurpation of Law 4957/2022 by Mr. Kaldi, arsenic – among different things – helium did not guarantee the due observance of procedures and the due implementation of the decisions of the Board, helium did not pass the instauration successful a timely and due mode of his actions, helium did not respond arsenic required to the requests of the members of the Board, successful short, helium disparaged the Board some done his actions and mostly done his nationalist statements.
Of course, Mr. Kaldis, pending the proceeding of the petition for annulment filed against the enactment of his dismissal, and until the work of a last determination by the CoE, remains successful the presumption of Rector of the PADA pursuing the issuance of the determination of the CoE Suspension Committee of the CoE No. 141/2024.
With this study we pass you that nether the continued presidency of Mr. Kaldis, superior dysfunctions and irregularities successful the medication of the University of West Attica proceed to beryllium and unluckily intensify, portion helium does not bask the assurance of the bulk of some interior and outer members of the Board of Directors.
In particular, the cognition of the Board continues to beryllium systematically undermined by deliberate obstructions connected the portion of Mr. Kaldis, by inaccurate signaling of the decisions of the Board successful minutes which are published / posted without anterior support by the Board, by incorrect exertion of the basal rules of quorum and decision-making of the corporate bodies of the administration, by his unwillingness to guarantee ineligible enactment to the members of the Board. In short, by Mr Kaldi’s nonaccomplishment to guarantee the due functioning of the institution. The mode successful which Mr Kaldis performs his duties does not correspond to the relation provided for by the legislature, with the effect that the administrative stability, the cognition and the estimation of the instauration are affected. By mode of indication, delight let america to bring the pursuing issues to your attention:
As president of the institution, Mr. Kaldis continues to systematically refuse, adjacent today, to spot connected the docket items relating to captious decisions, adjacent though they person been legally submitted by the members of the SC successful accordance with the provisions of the law. The lawsuit of the tender process for the ‘Purchase of Property for the Centre for Innovation successful Tourism’ is typical, successful the discourse of which applicable issues were repeatedly submitted but ne'er introduced for discussion. The last, from 26.07.2024 and 30.07.2024, requests from members of the SC inactive stay pending, which specifically related to (a) the cancellation of the tender and its reopening with a redefinition of the presumption of the tender, oregon a petition to the Ministry of Education, Religious Affairs and Sports for the reallocation of resources for the probe and improvement of the University of West Attica, and (b) an sentiment of the Legal Service of the PADA, wherever a lawyer of the NCC serves, regarding the contented of the cancellation of the tender. This signifier delays important decisions, limits transparency and undermines the quality of the members of the SC to workout their statutory powers, and poses a important risk, nether the wide work of the Chairman, Mr. Kaldis, of immoderate nonaccomplishment of backing for the PADA.
In addition, portion out-of-court notices are sent to companies participating successful tender procedures, Mr Kaldis, arsenic chairman, does not guarantee that a ineligible sentiment connected these out-of-court notices is provided anterior to the treatment of the applicable issues astatine the SC meeting. As a result, the members of the SC consciousness exposed and pressured to instrumentality decisions successful a peculiar direction.
Turning present to the regular functioning of the institution, the behaviour of the meetings of the SC is characterized by inaccurate signaling of minutes done selective signaling of events and decisions, by posting of minutes connected the WEB tract without anterior support by members and by the lack of drafting of provisional minutes by the secretary. These practices, which depart from the existing authorities and from bully practices successful the cognition of the corporate bodies of the medication successful general, undermine the transparency and credibility of the decision-making process and adjacent spell truthful acold arsenic to undermine the validity of those decisions.
They adjacent spell arsenic acold arsenic to undermine adjacent the validity of the decisions themselves.
They adjacent spell arsenic acold arsenic to undermine the precise validity of the decisions.
A peculiarly worrying, caller (since 14.11.2024), incidental concerns the handling of the Electronic International Open Tender for the Cleaning of Buildings and Premises of the University of West Attica. Despite the explicit declaration of abstention of six (6) of the 9 (9) members of the BoD from taking a determination connected the B’ minutes of the tender, Mr. Kaldis proceeded to station minutes connected the DIAGIA, successful which helium falsely depicted alleged responses by the Executive Director that were ne'er provided during the meeting, portion besides showing the six (6) members of the BoD to person rejected the B’ Tender Minutes, causing the existent cleaning declaration to beryllium terminated. The instauration was near without cleaning services for 2 (2) days portion dozens of employees were astatine hazard of losing their jobs, which jeopardized Public Health and caused disruption to the world community. Ultimately, the substance was settled (after our intervention) astatine an bonzer gathering of the Board astatine which the continuation of cleaning services was approved, an contented connected which the presiding officer, Mr. Kaldis, voted no.
It is worthy noting that Mr. Kaldis’ absorption benignant has resulted successful the nonaccomplishment of captious funds and grants for the Foundation. A emblematic illustration is the information that Mr. Kaldis, some arsenic Rector and arsenic Acting Head, did not instrumentality attraction of the implementation of the task “ENHANCEMENT AND ENHANCEMENT OF CONNECTION PROCEDURES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF DYUTY OF ATTICA (PA.D.A.)”, wrong the model of the Operational Programme “Public Sector Reform”, resulting successful the issuance by the Ministry of National Economy and Finance of the applicable Decision of Revocation of the Decision of Act Inclusion No. 177934/27-11-2024 (ID: PSORXI-XYI) and the nonaccomplishment for the PA.D.A. of the corresponding task funds totalling 1.172.228,57 €. It should beryllium noted that the supra Revocation Decision states verbatim arsenic a reason: “because each deadlines for the implementation of the approved carnal and fiscal scope wrong the eligible timeframe of the NSRF 2014-2020 person passed without immoderate enactment having been taken by the beneficiary”.
The medication of Mr. Kaldi has besides violated captious deadlines provided for by Law 4957/2022. He has ne'er submitted to the Board and the Senate the yearly study connected his activities arsenic Rector of the Foundation, arsenic explicitly stipulated successful subsection k) of para. 1 of nonfiction 15 of the Law. 4957/2022, the support of which is besides needfully portion of the responsibilities of the BoD successful accordance with subsection kth) of par. 1 of Article 14 of Law No. 495757, which is besides obligatorily required to beryllium included successful the provisions of subparagraph (1) of Article 14 of Law No. 495757. 4957/2022. Also, the improvement plans of the faculties, though submitted by Deans wrong the prescribed clip frame, person not been forwarded to the Board of Directors for support owed to the work of Mr. Kaldis.
Furthermore, it has been repeatedly noted that threats and indirect blackmail person been issued to the members of the SC for referral to judicial oregon disciplinary proceedings, with the purpose of creating a clime of intimidation and influencing the independency of the SC members successful expressing their opinion, which is unacceptable and incompatible with the antiauthoritarian rule and the due functioning of a corporate body. In addition, Mr. Kaldis precocious referred a subordinate of the BoD to the Disciplinary Board of Faculty Members. The crushed for the referral relates to an alleged misconduct that, portion its alleged committee seems to person started successful the twelvemonth 2020, i.e. nether his erstwhile rectorship, helium had not taken immoderate enactment to date.
The supra practices undermine the functioning of the SA, impede the creaseless functioning of the University and yet shingle the assurance of the world assemblage successful the medication of the institution.
We considered it our work to compile and code this study to you truthful that you whitethorn get a thorough, broad and implicit representation of the concern astatine the PADA.
We stay astatine your disposal for much elaborate accusation and information connected what is mentioned successful this report.
With our warmest wishes for a Happy and Creative New Year, with Health and Success successful the important enactment you do!!!
With honor,
The members of the PADA Management Council
Athena Georgia Alexopoulou
Konstantinos Derdemeezis
Areti Lagiou
Efstathia Papageorgiou
Cleo Sguropoulou
George Sikianakis
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