The Parliamentary Ethics Committee recommends lifting the immunity of Zoe Konstantopoulou

The Ethics Committee of the Hellenic Parliament has recommended the lifting of the parliamentary immunity of Zoe Konstantopoulou, pursuing a affirmative ballot by the members of New Democracy aft a tense and eventful meeting.

It is recalled that 5 lawsuit files concerning antithetic allegations against the president of the Course of Freedom enactment were precocious forwarded to Parliament. Appearing earlier the Ethics Committee, Konstantopoulou declined to supply explanations and denounced the procedure, arguing that she had not been fixed capable time, arsenic required by parliamentary rules, to survey the lawsuit files.

In this context, she submitted a petition for the recusal of the committee chairman, Giorgos Georgantas, but the petition was rejected, arsenic nary enactment different than Course of Freedom supported it. However, absorption parties backed Konstantopoulou’s petition to postpone the proceedings successful bid to let much clip for preparation.

For its part, New Democracy projected separating the cases into 2 groups: the 2 cases that had already been pending successful Parliament for immoderate clip (including the suit filed by Georgiadis and the lawsuit involving judicial officials), and the 3 caller cases submitted past Tuesday, for which treatment was postponed until adjacent Monday.

In the end, absorption members withdrew from the vote, stating that they did not privation to legitimize the process. As a result, the league concluded with information lone from New Democracy members.

Regarding the 2 cases connected which the Ethics Committee has already issued a recommendation, the plenary league of Parliament is expected to instrumentality a determination by roll-call ballot adjacent Tuesday, portion the remaining 3 cases volition beryllium examined astatine a aboriginal date.