In Parliament, the SYRIZA proposal for an inquiry into the ‘operation of manipulating public opinion’

In the Plenary Session of the Parliament, the discussion of the proposal of the president and the deputies of SYRIZA for the establishment of a committee of inquiry begins, in order to investigate the “operation of political manipulation of public opinion, degradation of institutions and waste of public money”.

“The government, for a long time, and even today, has been incessantly planning and executing a press-driven strategy, under which fat packages of funding and state advertising are used as a weapon against opposition journalists and as a reward for friendships with the government or the conveniently silent journalistic pens “, SYRIZA stated in its proposal and spoke about the political use of the pandemic for the control of the media. This is exactly the complaint that the MPs of the official opposition are expected to make, who will take the stage to analyze and justify the proposal for the establishment of a committee of inquiry.

The official opposition, in its proposal, has requested a commission of inquiry to investigate “all cases of outsourcing of communication and information services carried out invoking the implementation of a campaign for the protection of public health, measures to prevent the spread of coronavirus COVID -19 and the participation of citizens in the vaccination, without observing the principles of transparency and without objective criteria, namely the “Skin List No. 1”, the “Skin List No. 2”, the campaign of the Ministry of Health for vaccination, as well as the assignment to ENTERPRISE GREECE mentioned above “. It has also called for an investigation into “any waste of public money by the government towards the polling company Opinion Poll”, which conducts polls beyond all ethics with the sole aim of serving the government’s political goals and manipulating citizens, as well as the possible existence of of other polling companies, the owners of which maintain a parallel activity through which they directly or indirectly receive funding from the Greek State and the wider public sector “.

The SYRIZA proposal has been submitted on the basis of Article 68 of the Constitution, which stipulates that the Parliament may constitute two committees of inquiry per parliamentary term, provided that the relevant proposal of at least ten deputies is voted in favor by two-fifths of the deputies, regardless of the majority.

Movement for Change

The following statement was issued by the Parliamentary Group of the Movement for Change under the heading “All in the Light”:

“The Parliamentary Group of the Movement for Change met yesterday, Thursday 11.11.2021, to discuss the proposal for the establishment of an examination committee, which is being discussed today in the Plenary Session of the Parliament, and decided:

The Movement for Change remains firmly and over time committed to the line of full clarification of all cases for which an investigation is requested.

Transparency for everyone and everything, without asterisks and reservations.

In this context, the Movement for Change will vote in favor of the proposal of the official opposition to set up a committee of inquiry, as it has done in all the respective cases to date.

In addition, the Movement for Change, as we had stated, would vote in favor of the proposal that New Democracy had announced in advance for the extension of the time period of investigation of the subject of the committee.

Everything in the light! ”

Source: AMPE