Union of Bailiffs of the State Council condemns the recent appointment of the former Deputy Minister of Health Pavlos Polakisstating that “public discourse like that articulated in this case by Mr. P. Polakis is dangerous.”

“The mocking argument of Mr. Pavlos Polakis

Mr. Pavlos Polakis’ recent statements about the “deep state” cannot leave the country’s associations of judges indifferent.

Such statements require a response.

The statements of Mr. P. Polakis call us to account not because of the small possibility they have as such to influence Greek justice in the minds of our fellow citizens.

They are so obviously passionate that it is certain that they will not be listened to by those Greek men and women who have not lost the ability to think critically and morally judge impartially.

Obviously, criticism of court decisions affecting important and controversial issues of our political, social and economic life is quite expected and welcomed by judges and prosecutors.

Even impartiality – the most important virtue of those who formulate (public) critical reasoning – quite understandably gives way to criticism of judicial decisions, since nothing that affects or damages the important goods of human life can humanly be observed impartially by those whom it is concerns. or affected by them.

Thus, the statement of Mr. P. Polakis deserves disapproval, not because it is harsh, and not because it is not impartial. It should be condemned because it is inspired by the ethos that in order to find the strength to be embodied and become public discourse, it must take on the traits of a rude character, and in order to be heard, it must turn into a muffled roar.

But a public speech such as the one delivered on this occasion by Mr. P. Polakis is more than rude and dissonant. It is dangerous, and that is because of what drives it: mocking the democratic and liberal institutions through which Greek men and women have chosen to organize their state-organized social coexistence, and mocking the belief that Greek men and women value judicial institutions as institutions of the rule of law.

Mr. P. Polakis behaved in this matter in a way that shows that he does not favor the judicial institutions of the Greek constitutional state and does not have the art of delivering a quality public speech.

The status of Mr. P. Polakis as a member of the Greek Parliament and a former ministerial post has prompted us to address the Greek people with the above lines.”