Tips for the speech of the President of the Republic, Katerina Sakellaropoulou, at the reception at the Presidential Palace on the anniversary of the restoration of the Republic, was left by Nikos Filis, Member of Parliament and head of the Education Department of SYRIZA.
“An impression was also made by the speech of the President of the Republic yesterday at the event at the Presidential Palace for the Restoration of Democracy. She did not speak as the institution that attempts to unify and represent the entire people, but rather as the retired judge, who indirectly chose to stand in favor of the release of Lignadis”, the SYRIZA MP pointedly stated in his written statement, adding:
“The President of the Republic once again lends to her role an ideological color that divides the people and does not serve the Republic. Obviously this behavior is not covered by the irresponsibility of the Supreme Lord. We would expect the President and former judge to avoid systemic didacticism” about populism” and to insist on the democratic mission of justice”.
The statement of N. Philis in detail:
On the day of the anniversary of the Restoration of Democracy, yesterday Sunday, a concert was banned in Propylaia for the hunger striker Yannis Michailidis, while the day before yesterday in Exarchia a march against rape was banned and beaten by the police. Finally, the Restoration of Democracy… was “celebrated” with a (momentary…) regression to the millstone of memory Zagorianakos’ order “we decide and order”! Syrigos’ delusion about the “myth of the Polytechnic” is no exception. For the government, it is the canon of how it brutally encroaches on democratic values ​​and rights, after first discrediting the struggle for Democracy as a “myth”.
Tomorrow the Appeals Council in Lamia will discuss the request for release from prison of the hunger striker Yiannis Michailidis, who has served a sentence of seven and a half years and is entitled to a conditional release based on the law. The judicial favor for Korkoneas and Lignadis confirms that Justice is not so blind, but rather sees well from its right eye.
The speech of the President of the Republic yesterday at the event at the Presidential Palace for the Restoration of Democracy also made an impression. She did not speak as the institution that attempts to unify and represent the entire people, but rather as the retired judge, who indirectly chose to stand in favor of the release of Lignadis. Essentially commenting on the popular outcry over recent court decisions, he stated that “justice is not dispensed on the basis of public sense of justice […]judges enjoy the guarantees of their function […] they are judged and not targeted. Divisive speech does injustice to the public sphere and does not serve our democracy.”
The President of the Republic once again lends her role an ideological tone that divides the people and does not serve the Republic. Obviously this behavior is not covered by the irresponsibility of the High Lord. We would expect the President and former judge to eschew systemic “populism” indoctrination and stick to the democratic mission of the judiciary, which decides on the basis of laws, fair laws, has the constitutional authority to judge their constitutionality, and renders decisions always in the name of the Greek people. Is this also populism?
The “independent and impartial judges” are now called upon to decide on Michaelides’ request. To apply the law, not with double standards. Does this criticism constitute populism? Judges always have the discretion to impose sentences within a range set by the criminal law. Their decision is judged when it concerns a political issue or case that has upset public opinion. The court does not identify with the public’s sense of justice, but it is also not possible for its decision to conflict with basic values ​​of the Rule of Law. Not vox populi, but also not a state of judges. I hope we do not have the meteorites of the Restoration with a tragic event, with the possibility of the first post-colonial hunger strike in our country dying.
Otherwise, yesterday’s reception at the Presidential Palace maintained and increased its special worldliness (didn’t we know, did Syrigos go too?). This year an attempt was made to update the celebration by inviting young excellent refugee students, at a time when, however, crimes are being committed and dramas are unfolding with the pushbacks to the Evros and the Aegean and the country has been condemned by the European Court of Human Rights without, however, speaking the President of the Republic, although a retired judge. And yet the festive atmosphere at the Presidential Palace was not affected by the flames that have engulfed the country. Of our familiar debtors, you let…
Source: Capital
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