George Kyrtsos was expelled from ND – Towards ‘eviction’ and from the EPP

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By decision of the Secretary of the Political Committee of N.D. Pavlou Marinaki, MEP George Kyrtsos is deleted from New Democracy.

According to an announcement by the Press Office of New Democracy, ” Mr. Kyrtsos, who was elected with the ND ballot, with an order from the voters to promote the Greek positions in the European Parliament, does the exact opposite with his posts. He internationally discredits the country by questioning the independence of the Greek judiciary and comparing Greece with states that violate the rules of the rule of law. With his attitude he insults all those who trusted him to represent them. To date, any criticism of the government has been tolerated, even if it goes too far. “But there can be no tolerance for defaming the country.”

More specifically, Article 5 §1.2 was applied, according to which the loss of the membership status occurs “With his voluntary removal from the party, which is manifested by word or deed and clearly results, indicative of his registration in another political party, or with public demonstrations that strongly oppose the party’s ideological and political principles or promote racism, hatred and violence or challenge the rule of law and the democratic parliamentary system of the country. Political Committee “.

The reason for the removal of Mr. Kyrtsos was a series of his posts, which follow the MEPs’ multiple differentiations from central political positions on Piraeus Street.

“Trap for government, Greece the persecution of journalists, Touloupaki. The rivalry between Brussels – Hungary, Poland for the rule of law at its zenith. The European Court has accepted a link of funds with respect for rights. of developments, “he said in a post.

“The insurance black hole for government, economy. The deficit is growing as a percentage of GDP. The authorities do not inform. We have entered a retrograde loophole without money. , in another … tweet, the MEP.

A little while later, George Kyrtsos responded for his deletion with the following tweet:

M. Weber: The EPP starts an internal process against G. Kyrtsos

EPP President Manfred Weber characterized the allegations of MEP G. Kyrtsos against the Greek government as unacceptable.

As M. Weber wrote on Twitter: “We categorically reject the baseless accusations against the Greek government by @GiorgosKyrtsos. We consider them unacceptable. After these events, an internal process will be launched against MEP Kyrtsos.”

The SYRIZA announcement for the removal of Kyrtsos

“Mr. Mitsotakis did not dare to delete Mr. Kyrtsos for the self-evident criticism he has been making for a year about the failure to manage the pandemic and the millions of deaths, the staff chaos in dealing with crises and his disastrous policy in the economy with precision records.

However, he did so today when he dared to point out that Greece is in danger of losing EU funds for violating the rule of law, as happened with Hungary and Poland, on the occasion of the persecution of journalists and judges for the Novartis scandal.

Mr. Kyrtsos simply said what the whole of Europe is discussing about the Mitsotakis regime, who thinks that with his removal the omerta will continue. “Unfortunately for him, his achievements, which turn the Hellenic Republic into an Orban-type regime, now concern Europe and its institutions,” SYRIZA said in a statement.

Source: Capital

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