“Leaving Athens without permission” will be very difficult for Ministers and deputy Ministers of Greek coalition government as Prime Minister Antonits Samaras decided to tight the working schedule of his government.
If a minister, a deputy minister or an alternate minister wants to leave Athens for traveling across the country Greece or abroad for whatever reason, he would need to submit his request to the secretary of the cabinet and obtain a permission by the prime minister.
A Samaras’ aide told Proto Thema, “when the PM says government members need to work seven days per week and be available 24 hours per day, he means it. The phenomenon that ministries remain 2-3 days without ‘head’ because ministers and deputies visit their home areas to attend weddings, baptizing ceremonies or keep contacts with the local community will be on hold.”
This decision has also to do with Samaras’ intention to separate the legislative and excecutive powers and to proceed to a substantial incompatibility between ministerial posts and parliament membership.
It will be hard for ministers to keep their local offices and …clients.
PS oops! our ministers won’t enjoy vacations this year?
If anyone had any doubts that Samaras is an old-fashioned fascist (I did not) then let those doubts be removed.
Let us also hope that he loses the sight of both eyes, and quits.
come on, he tries to keep his staff on spot and not on wedding spot
I take it that the summer roster for parliament is as usual? From June until September just 1/3 in session and the rest on holiday? Or is this year different?
difference is MPs on vacation, ministers in their offices. can you imagine how much the tax payers (Europeans, Greeks) will pay for A/Conditioning expenses?
Why A/C? Fan not good enough for these guys? (And one girl? Did I read that right?)
So, the newly elected MPs are nicely off on their holidays? Guess they deserve it after those two grueling elections and the two months off they had for that. At least they can now have some more contact with their voters and make good for the lack of contact by the new ministers. Guess there will be some extra vacancies on Mykonos this August?