Greek Opposition Demands Resignations Over EU Farm Subsidy Scandal

Mitsotakis is nether renewed unit implicit the EU workplace subsidies scandal. FILE PHOTO. Credit: AMNA

The Greek authorities faces a large situation pursuing reports that 11 New Democracy MPs and 2 erstwhile ministers are implicated successful the EU workplace subsidy scandal.

On Wednesday, the European Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) forwarded a lawsuit record to Parliament implicating the governing party’s officials.

The probe centers connected an organized fraud scheme targeting EU cultivation funds managed by the Greek outgo agency, OPEKEPE. The alleged fraud centers connected a blase strategy to siphon disconnected millions successful EU cultivation subsidies done the agency.

Reports accidental that PM Mitsotakis is considering a large furniture reshuffle, arsenic the absorption intensifies its attacks

PASOK: “The signature of New Democracy”

The main absorption party, PASOK-Movement for Change, issued a blistering connection connected Wednesday, arguing that Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis is “trapped.”

“If reports are confirmed that the lawsuit involves 2 ministers, 2 lawman ministers, and the ND Party Secretary, Mr. Mitsotakis has nary prime but to purge them from his furniture immediately,” the enactment stated.

PASOK enactment further questioned the stableness of the government, asking however a ruling bulk tin relation erstwhile 11 of its members whitethorn soon look transgression prosecution.

SYRIZA: “No much cover-ups”

SYRIZA-Progressive Alliance has called for an contiguous and transparent investigation, demanding:

• The contiguous lifting of parliamentary immunity for each implicated MPs.
• An extremity to “parliamentary coups” that artifact investigations into authorities transgression liability.
• A meaningful judicial process, alternatively than a “sham” inquiry.

“Greece deserves better,” the enactment stated, describing the existent medication arsenic being successful a authorities of “decadence and corruption.”

New Left: Will the authorities let the truth?

The New Left enactment challenged the government’s communicative that scandals are simply results of “chronic systemic issues.” They demanded to cognize if the Prime Minister would proceed to artifact a Pre-Trial Investigative Committee and if helium maintains his stance that nary ministerial transgression liability exists contempt the European Prosecutor’s findings.

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