The strong reactions of the KINAL MPs were provoked by the decision of the Speaker of the Plenary Thanasis Bouras to observe the Rules of Procedure of the Parliament and not to be excluded for intervention outside the speakers, of the former PASOK Prime Minister and KINAL MP Giorgos.
Specifically, when Mr. Papandreou asked to speak during the discussion of a topical question of his party, which he signed but had not registered as a questioner, Mr. Bouras replied that the Rules of Procedure of the Parliament must be observed, which, as he said, “does not provide for interventions of former prime ministers in the parliamentary control process”.
“The only explicit reference is to the pre-day debate of the political leaders. If he wanted exceptions, the legislator would have explicitly put it for parliamentary control, you just want to deprive me of the floor,” Mr. Papandreou countered.
For his part, KINAL MP Vassilis Kegeroglou attributed to the Speaker of the Plenary Session, “political expediency in the interpretation of the Rules of Procedure of the Parliament”. “However, I will not leave you and Mr. Papandreou will speak in return. Anyway, thank you because with your expediencies you facilitate us every time you do it”, added Mr. Kegeroglou, giving his turn to the former prime minister.
“Exactly what is provided by the regulation for the parliamentary control is applied”, Mr. Bouras insisted.
“For us, the presence of the former prime minister in today’s debate has an institutional value and is of paramount importance. I understand your invocation of the Rules of Procedure of the Parliament, we respect your decision but we can not accept or agree on it”, reacted the secretary of the Parliamentary Group of KINAL, Evangelia Liakoulis.
“The most powerful of all is the Rules of Procedure of the Parliament, which precisely define the procedure. You want its exception, which can become a rule,” Mr. Bouras commented.
Taking the floor immediately afterwards, Mr. Papandreou insisted that the Speaker of the House made an arbitrary interpretation of the Rules of Procedure of the Parliament. “You made an arbitrary interpretation of the Rules of Procedure by not allowing a former prime minister to speak. It is wrong and indecent for the democratic culture that should prevail and a poor interpretation of the Rules of Procedure that has some expediency,” Papandreou stressed.
Source: AMPE
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