In a statement released by the SYRIZA press service, Pavlos Polakis has been removed from the post of head of the transparency department and transferred to the party’s ethics committee.

Full announcement from the SYRIZA press office:

“According to the decision of the President of SYRIZA – Progressive Alliance, the position of Pavlos Polakis as head of the transparency department is taken by Giannis Ragusis. Dimitris Tsanakopoulos becomes the representative of the parliament.

Next Tuesday, 28/2, the Executive Office of the Party will meet in an expanded format, where the Chairman request the referral of Pavlos Polakis to the Ethics Committee regarding the attitude to the systematic violation on his part of the rules of collectivism and the democratic functioning of the party.

SYRIZA – The Progressive Alliance has always acted collectively and thus has shaped and continues to shape its policies. Political conflict with the Mitsotakis regime and those who represent it it’s not done in terms of a personal crusade but with a plan, institutional seriousness and determination. Is not individual case but a collective task and strategy.

SYRIZA – Progressive Alliance he wants and can, by solidarity, seriousness and composure, ensure the face and purity of his policy.

No one has the right to pour water on the mill of Mr. Mitsotakis and his government, especially a few days before the official start of the pre-election period“.

More provocative than what the same MP has provocatively stated and written in the recent past was a post made by Pavlos Polakis on social media late Saturday night (early Sunday morning) that was supposed to spark a new cycle of violent reactions.

Political factions, the Union of Judges and Prosecutors, and even sources from Kumunduru hastened to “answer” the MP from SYRIZA, sharply criticizing what he had written.

Late Saturday night, Pavlos Polakis posted a message on Facebook in which he openly threatened 13 judges, 15 journalists, four bankers and the head of the Independent State Revenue Office, whom he is personally prosecuting. “If we don’t get rid of them, things will be different next time,” declares the SYRIZA deputy from Chania in his post, thus introducing what he thinks needs to be done (“if we don’t get rid of them…”), so that “next time it will be different” when SYRIZA is in power.

In his online “appeal” against 13 judges, 15 journalists, four bankers and the head of the Independent Tax Administration, Pavlos Polakis demands that at least one of the four systemic banks be placed under public control, demands the dismissal of Giorgos Pitsilis from AADE and its repeal is aimed on the media, commit to reinstating the provisions of the Pope’s Law when (and if) SYRIZA becomes government again, and talks about the PETSA lists under the slogan “money back”.

SYRIZA for Polakis: He has clearly decided to withdraw from the election campaign

“SYRIZA has a program and policies approved by its congress. It also has operating principles that are characterized by democracy, collectivity and provide for defense, not defense. undermining its policies by its members and much more by its leadership“, noted earlier today, for their part, Komunduru’s sources, pointedly emphasizing that “anyone who believes that he can develop his own policy, form ballots and impose a private agenda that he prefers, with continuous publications and disregard for the principles and party politics, has apparently deliberately decided to put himself out of the election battle“.

Komundur’s sources previously told K that Alexis Tsipras had “made a decision,” referring to a meeting of the party’s executive apparatus scheduled for Tuesday, February 28. Judging by the message subsequently circulated by the SYRIZA press office, these reports are now being confirmed, and Al. Tell Tsipras that he is not being blackmailed and set the stage for the possible removal of Pavlos Polakis.

Polakis’ first reaction

However, the deputy of Chania himself, in a post on Sunday afternoon, stated: “We will tell EVERYTHING to the political secretariat and the Central Committee. I will not engage in dialogue with “sources”… Obviously, there are procedures and institutions in which I participated and was elected, and even then with very high percentages. There we will talk and see who is right!”

We will tell EVERYTHING to the political secretariat and the Central Committee.
I will not open a dialogue with “sources” …
Obviously, there are procedures and bodies in which I participated and was elected, and even with the highest percentages.
we’ll talk there
and we’ll see who’s right! pic.twitter.com/yu4cxtzSkp

— Pavlos Polakis (@pavpol2222) February 26, 2023

ND calls for removal of Pavlos Polakis

“Mr. Polakis’ obscene language, threats, and injunctions against journalists, judges, and government officials cannot be covered up by SYRIZA leaks about being kicked off the ballot. It would be a matter of course in any democratic party to expel him, and that is what we demand from Mr. Tsipras, who has covered for him until today. We also take for granted the removal of the unanimously convicted Nikos Pappas from the ballot,” the New Democracy said in a statement.

PASOK-KINAL: Expel Pavlos Polakis from the party

“The harassment and threats to subpoena journalists and judges by Mr. Tsipras’ colleague, banker and milkman, Pavlos Polakis, have nothing to do with democracy or the rule of law,” PASOK-KINAL said in a statement, emphasizing that “In any European party that upholds the rule of law, individuals who have either been convicted by the courts or rave against institutions and human rights would already be outside the party.”

Union of Judges and Prosecutors: Threats by P. Polakis are a heavy blow to a democratic state

The Union of Judges and Prosecutors said in a statement that “the public threats by former minister and current MP Pavlos Polakis about a collective ‘purge’ of the institutions of the rule of law and freedom of speech deal a heavy blow to the democratic state of the country and the lack of sympathy for the functioning of its democratic institutions.”

Intervention of the prosecutor’s office in defense of Polakis

Finally, the ex officio intervention of the Athenian Prosecutor’s Office was prompted by posts on social media, including Pavlos Polakisfor the chief judges who served on the Special Court that sentenced former Minister Nikos Pappe.