Parliament rejects request to lift the immunity of New Left leader

[InTimeNews]

Parliament overwhelmingly rejected the petition to assistance the immunity of Alexis Haritsis, president of the New Left, for his information successful the farmers’ roadworthy blockades successful Karditsa past February.

The petition related to the offence of obstructing transportation during Haritsis’ visit to the spot where protesting farmers person blocked nationalist roads. The determination not to assistance Haritsis’s immunity was successful enactment with a proposal by the Ethics Committee. Some 254 MPs voted against the request. 

New Left parliamentary typical Nasos Iliopoulos criticised the determination to complaint Haritsis. 

“The information that a lawsuit record has been submitted to Parliament simply due to the fact that a enactment person participated successful farmers’ mobilisations demonstrates the country’s unsafe descent into authoritarianism under New Democracy,” helium said.