After filing the lawsuit against professor Tsakyrakis, the president of the Supreme Court committed another institutional faux pas. In a letter to Mrs. Gennimata, she requested a denunciation of the criticism from her MPs and party. By outright violating the separation of powers, the guardian of the judiciary’s independence is attempting to intervene in the parliamentary work, in order to secure protection from the criticism against her.
With these actions the Supreme Court president is irreparably invalidating her appointed position appointed and is essentially attempting to abolish the freedom of expression and criticism. She is associating the defense of her political positions – which she is impermissibly, for her position, expressing in public – with the necessary respect for the independence of Justice.
Mrs. Thanou is demonstrably ignoring the outright disapproval from the vast majority of constitutional experts, Law School professor assembly and bar associations, by insisting upon such an unprecedented practice. She will gladly accept the judiciary’s union bodies to issue unacceptable statements of support towards her, for a case they will likely be called upon to judge, which rules out any sense of a fair trial.
She will not hesitate to abuse her powers, given to her by the government that appointed her overnight, to take disciplinary action against judges…
In a period where the institutional independence and prestige of justice is under threat from the outright government interventions, rather than defend the stature and credibility of the institution of which she is the head, Mrs. Thanou is contributing towards its deconstruction and depreciation. The professor of law and Minister of Justice, who has so far remained silent, has a constitutional obligation, as Mr. Venizelos argues, to take a stand for all these unacceptable developments in the area of Justice.
TO VIMA
