Pavlos Polakis

All the statements from the side of SYRIZA converge on the fact that party headquarters will hardly get along with the once beloved "comrade" Pavlos Polakis

Development Minister Adonis Georgiadis announced that he will sue Polakis over his continuing allegations against the development minister regarding kickbacks, even after the case was shelved. 'Whatever he may say, I will answer only in court,' the minister declared.

Since 2019, New Democracy has cemented its political predominance and SYRIZA has gradually grown weaker. That is recorded in every opinion poll and by any journalist who does his or her job properly.

No one accepts the concept of familial responsibility but the PM himself was never thoughtful about the families of others.

Mitsotakis and other top MP cadres are stressing that Polakis who is known for his vulgarity and Tsipras who covers for him are one and the same thing.

'Novartis AG said its own internal investigation found no evidence of bribery to Greek officials as an upcoming election puts the Swiss drugmaker back in the spotlight,' Bloomberg reported.

Secretly recording a conversation without the consent of the other party or parties is a felony punishable with a jail term of up to 10 years.

In certain aspects those who currently exercise power have no sense of measure, and this lack is so intense that they brutally offend the mores and aesthetic of the country and our people.

Perish the thought that Alternate Health Minister Pavlos Polakis was recording the conversation in which he threatened Greece’s central banker.

The violation of the confidentiality of telephone communications without the consent of all the parties is a felony, punishable with a maximum ten-year jail term.

In the recorded conversation, Polakis demands that Stournaras also probe the loans of political parties and of other politicians.

The justice minister essentially distanced himself and the government from Polakis’ attack.

The search was conducted the day after the ex-protected witness in the Novartis scandal said on television that he had moved his household goods abroad.

A case regarding the mismanagement of public funds in the healthcare sector was used by the government to implicate almost the entire opposition in a corruption case.

Polakis targeted the Corruption Investigating Magistrate, Matina Bozinou, whom he lambasted for not summoning as a witness and possibly remanding in custody the former VP of Novartis Hellas, Konstantinos Frouzis.

The government’s constant talk of handouts has stirred greater social demands, which combined with electoral fiscal imprudence can easily reverse what the country and its people have achieved until now.

'Mr. Tsipras’ beloved minister reached the point of making ‘little jokes’ even about the 99 dead people in Mati,' ND said in a statement.

Papantoniou was a top minister in the two governments of then Pasok leader Kostas Simitis. He is the second defence minister appointed by Simitis that has been jailed (in Papantoniou’s case, pending trial) over defence contract kickbacks, the first being Akis Tsochatzopoulos.

At the 14 October party meeting, Polakis said, “The judiciary must expedite what it is doing. We cannot continue with high culture. We cannot let this happen, and we are not, but we must push more, and that must be clear in our rhetoric.”

The Left was once in the frontline in the defence of democratic values, and was the first to go to battle, with personal sacrifices in confronting all manner of autarchic thinking and practices. Now that it is in power, the cadres that manage that power not only demean their ideas in order to keep their offices.