Th. Xanthopoulos: It is unprecedented for the Prime Minister to violate the separation of powers in such a crude way

The head of the Justice Department of SYRIZA-PS, Theofilos Xanthopoulos, accuses the Prime Minister of “direct interference in Justice”.

The disparaging and insulting descriptions of “underworld and gang” addressed by the Prime Minister to the Parliament against journalists who revealed aspects of the Novartis scandal and are called as defendants, constitute a direct intervention in Justice, abolish the presumption of innocence, “The rule of law as a whole,” he said, stressing that “it is really unprecedented for the country’s prime minister to violate in such a brutal way the separation of powers and the institutional functioning of democracy.” “Even if we take into account the fact that another journalist is called to give explanations because he was just reporting on the mobilization of high school students, we have every reason to worry,” he added.

“Mr Mitsotakis and his government are fully responsible for this unacceptable situation and the criminalization of journalistic investigations. “They are a bulwark for the Greek government”, he noted and concluded: “The only effective functions of the” staff “state have finally proved to be authoritarianism and repression.

Source: AMPE

Source: Capital

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