For “toxicity, extreme polarization and cynicism of political life”, the government abandons SYRIZA, keeping steady the course of the frontal attack on the reports of senior opposition party officials, such as Mr. Bernardakis and Mr. Polakis.
“The prime minister did nothing more than highlight with specific and typical examples the indecency and baseness with which SYRIZA has long chosen to be political. We all understand that these extremes can lead to incidents that carry great risks and the prime minister highlighted this with his statement yesterday. Mr. Tsipras, instead of being with Mr. Lymberopoulos, would have had the opportunity to be in the Parliament and distance himself from these policies of pettiness and vulgarity. He didn’t do it, but on the contrary, the speed with which what the Prime Minister said was confirmed, with the posting of Mr. Polakis, shows that SYRIZA is moving at a rate of toxicity, extreme polarization, and the emasculation of political life…”, stressed Mr. Oikonomou, during the briefing of the journalists.
Focusing on the Lignadis case, the government representative noted that making a court decision on a rape case a matter of political controversy is not something that should be considered normal in a European state of law…
“It is a choice of SYRIZA. Only such a party could look either to swindle, or to reduce to a matter of political confrontation a decision that has a criminal dimension… The Justice decided on the basis of the Criminal Code that was in force on SYRIZA. If it had the possibility to decide based on the change made by the New Democracy government to the Penal Code then based on this change the sentence would be life… And the crime of raping minors would be punishable by life…”, he said.
“The decisions of the Court must be respected and from my institutional role I must stick to it. Beyond that, society and citizens have the right to judge and evaluate the decisions. First and above all, however, what we all have to keep in mind is that Justice does not decide in a vacuum, but based on the laws, the Criminal Code… The New Republic with the changes it made made this offense punishable by life imprisonment… Judges decide based on criteria that must be decided by the Court and the institutional framework at their disposal…”, he added.
Source: Capital
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