The Supreme Special Court unanimously found former minister Mr. Nikos Pappa — Mr. Tsipras’ oldest and closest associate — guilty of dereliction of duty in a 2016 television license competition case. He even imposed a maximum penalty for this offense with a fine.
Conviction for dereliction of duty is the most shameful crime for public servants. This decision embarrasses Mr. Tsipras personally, as Mr. Pappas, through Maximos’s palace, coordinated and directed an operation to control and manipulate information with the ultimate goal of falsifying democracy. This is a sad day in our political history as a former minister is convicted of dereliction of duty. But it’s also a significant day. On the one hand, because it seemed that independent Greek justice would finally get to the bottom of the truth and everything would become clear.
Mr. Pappas was found guilty in a hearing that resulted in a unanimous decision by the Supreme Special Court. He was found guilty through institutional and legal procedures, and not on the basis of statements by undercover witnesses or on the basis of dealing in dirty networks and all sorts of conspiracy theorists. And on the other hand, because the institutional sabotage launched by the government of SYRIZA at the most central level has been revealed beyond any doubt. This is also an absolute confirmation of the conclusion of the parliamentary commission of inquiry. The censors of SYRIZA must immediately and boldly assume their political responsibilities and admit the obvious: they have abused and illegally used the power given to them by the Greek people to manipulate information, defeat our democracy and turn Greece into an authoritarian third world. mode.
After a unanimous decision, the questions are urgent and they need to be answered immediately, without half-words and evasions:
Will Mr. Tsipras take the political responsibility entrusted to him for the work and days of his senior and closest partner?
– Will Mr. Tsipras remove from the ballot and remove from SYRIZA the irrevocably and unanimously convicted Mr. Pappas?
Source: Kathimerini
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