Mitsotakis: Constitutional revision at the center of the next electoral battle, we want popular legitimacy for major institutional changes

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis sent a connection of determination for a heavy organization overhaul during his gathering with the European Union Commissioner for Democracy and Justice, Michael McGrath.

The Prime Minister emphasized that these changes volition not beryllium “technical successful nature,” but volition go a cardinal governmental contented successful the 2027 elections, truthful that – arsenic helium said – “they person the wide fashionable legitimacy required.”

“We are launching a constitutional revision process, hard and demanding, which requires 2 antithetic parliamentary presumption to beryllium completed,” the Prime Minister said, describing an “ambitious docket of organization reforms.” As helium explained, astatine the halfway of the revision are changes successful the method of selecting the enactment of the ultimate courts, with an progressive relation for judges themselves, and the revision of the nonfiction connected ministerial responsibility, truthful arsenic to bounds the relation of Parliament and guarantee a fair, depoliticized judgment.

Kyriakos Mitsotakis stressed that the extremity is to reconstruct citizens’ spot successful institutions and fortify the independency of the judiciary, saying characteristically that “the erosion of spot successful antiauthoritarian institutions is simply a wide occupation successful each democracies.”