Since the beginning of the year, there have been thoughts and proposals at the highest government level for his removal. Konstantinou Skusa from your position Police officer. The final decision was made last Saturday. CYSEAcaused the same reaction and provoked a political confrontation between the authorities and the opposition.

According to one version, the sudden change in the leadership of the Chamber is associated with a series of personnel reshuffles and changes that began in the fall of 2022 and marked a change in the balance of power within it. Ministry of Citizens’ Protection. The change began in September with the return to responsible positions of police officers who had previously fallen out of favor and switched to “cooling” positions.

They continued into the crises of January, with information for the report what a certain Stock and basically the demobilization of the officers took place after the consultation of Megaros Maximos with the minister. Takis Theodorikakosgeneral secretary Michalis Karamalakibut not the Deputy Minister of Citizens’ Protection Lefteri Economy.

Lieutenant General Konstantinos Skumas was appointed to the position of leader in April 2022, i.e. before the personnel reshuffle began in the building on and beyond Katechaki Avenue. Within a few months, the theoretically strongest man in the House had weakened, and some of his proposals – objections to the appointment of officers to positions of responsibility during recent crises – were conspicuously ignored. Government sources say there was no discussion of his resignation in January as he had only been at the helm of EL.AS for a few months. and any removal would provoke political and other reactions. Something that was ultimately inevitable.

Lieutenant General Konstantinos Skumas has visibly weakened in recent months, to the point that some of his recommendations have been pointedly ignored during recent crises.

Mr. Skoumas himself complained in a written statement – without naming names – that his objections to the electrocution of the position of Director General of the Attica Police, an officer with operational experience from Thessaly, were ignored. He also suggested that he was asked to satisfy campaign bribes by transferring officers from police stations to privileged positions, which he did not.

“The decision to appoint a new chief belongs to the highest state body, KYSEA, and was taken unanimously only with the aim of improving and more positively and efficiently implementing the modern operational plans of the Greek police,” according to a leak from the Ministry of Civil Protection in the complaints of Mr. Skumas.

Question to Parliament

SYRIZA made a statement on this matter, and yesterday PASOK MP Giorgos Kaminis posed a question to Minister Theodorikakos. “What decisions did the former leader of EL.AS refer to. in his statement, which, despite the fact that it allegedly serves the Constitution, was not accepted by the political leadership of the ministry, and why? Who are the “centers of power” in the ministry who demanded decisions against “absolute transparency and meritocracy?” asks Mr. Caminis, among other things.