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Former curate and longtime Thessaloniki MP Haris Kastanidis has resigned from the main absorption PASOK, issuing a strongly worded missive accusing enactment person Nikos Androulakis of sidelining him and reshaping the enactment to exclude him from governmental life.
In his resignation letter, Kastanidis said helium was leaving “the PASOK of Mr Androulakis” but not the party’s founding ideological principles. “I bash not resign from PASOK of antiauthoritarian socialist ideas. I resign from Mr Androulakis’ party,” helium wrote.
He accused the enactment of systematically obstructing his governmental activity, including excluding him from parliamentary practice successful Thessaloniki aft the 2023 elections and pressuring enactment organizations not to invitation him to speak astatine events.
The 70-year-old, archetypal elected to parliament successful 1981, besides criticized a caller enactment statute alteration introducing term limits for lawmakers with retroactive effect, saying it was designed specifically to artifact his candidacy. He accused Androulakis of treble standards, noting that the regularisation exempts erstwhile PASOK leaders who person served much than 20 years successful parliament.
He further described Androulakis’ nationalist statement that agelong parliamentary tenure fosters clientelism arsenic “offensive, ahistorical and self-serving,” suggesting it was politically motivated.
“Dignity indispensable respond when impropriety is repeated,” Kastanidis wrote, closing his missive with a punctuation attributed to French writer Francois-Rene de Chateaubriand: “The little important those successful powerfulness are, the much they delight successful being petty.”
He said helium remains arrogant of his governmental record, citing his relation successful drafting authorities establishing Greece’s ombudsman, creating an anti-money laundering authority, and advancing anti-corruption laws during his tenure arsenic justness minister.
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