Milena Apostolaki launched a fierce critique of the ruling majority and Kyriakos Mitsotakis for undermining Parliament and the Constitution, for their attacks on the European Public Prosecutor’s Office, and for their systematic cover-up and evasion of accountability, Milena Apostolaki raised these issues during the plenary debate on PASOK’s motion to establish a Preliminary Investigation Committee to examine the potential criminal liability of Spilios Livanos and Fotini Arabatzis regarding the OPEKEPE.
The PASOK rapporteur spoke of a “widespread crisis of institutions, democracy, and the rule of law, ” arguing that the OPEKEPE scandal is not an isolated incident but part of a “recurring pattern of covering up for those responsible, refusing to provide due accountability, and weakening institutions.” As she emphasized, the so-called “executive state” constitutes a “closed, almost one-man power structure, without institutional checks and balances or guarantees of transparency.”
Referring to the government’s stance following the referral of new case files involving New Democracy MPs and former ministers, she highlighted the contradiction in the government’s position, noting that while the parliamentary majority lifted the immunity of 13 New Democracy MPs for cases related to OPEKEPE, it refuses to apply Article 86 of the Constitution to two former government ministers.
He also spoke of an “obvious about-face” by the Maximos Mansion, noting that initially an image of institutional stance and acceptance of the investigation was cultivated, but this was soon abandoned. “This backtracking reveals their obvious guilt and, above all, their fear that the truth will expose the true depth and extent of the scandal, ” emphasized Milena Apostolaki.
She accused the governing majority of continuing its attempt to cover up the scandal by transforming the Parliament “from a forum for holding power accountable into a forum for protecting and granting amnesty to the government.”
The PASOK MP strongly criticized the stance of government officials toward the European Public Prosecutor’s Office, referring to an “institutionally dangerous attack” on its operational independence and an attempt to turn it into a “political adversary.” As she emphasized, the government “is using every means to limit the political cost, shift the public debate away from the substance, and portray accountability as political persecution.”
Concluding her speech, the PASOK MP emphasized that “citizens are not willing to surrender the future to either impunity or decline, ” making it clear that PASOK will not allow “our democratic institutions to be subjugated to a power that seeks to ensure its political survival through impunity and arbitrariness.”