Development Minister Adonis Georgiadis is known to have a big mouth. On Wednesday, he went so far to threaten the head prosecutor investigating possible involvement of politicians to the Novartis bribes scandal with imprisonment.
Corruption prosecutor Eleni Touloupaki, “should go to jail because she violated the Constitution” for pressing charges against PASOK’s former health minister Andreas Loverdos as part of the probe, Gerogidais said during a live interview with ANT1 TV.
“Shame on her!” he screamed in his traditional way.
He also posted his approach to the way the prosecutor works on his social media account.
Η κα Τουλουπάκη εις γνώση της και μετά Δόλου παραβίασε το άρθρο 86 του Ελληνικού Συντάγματος ασκώντας Δίωξη για το αδίκημα της Παθητικής Δωροδοκίας στον @a_loverdos ενώ και η ίδια γράφει στην απολογία της ότι η Νομολογία της το απαγόρευε.Ντροπή της https://t.co/wGmvU7wN2t
— Άδωνις Γεωργιάδης (@AdonisGeorgiadi) June 24, 2020
In a statement, prosecutor Touloupaki accused Georgiadis of publicly taking position about cases still under investigation and that he has no idea about national and international laws.
She said that she would move at national and European level to defend her personality.
But a government is a team and acts like one no matter what.
Spokesman Stelios Petsas defended Gerogiadis and his ministerial threats.
Georgiadis “was not commenting as a government minister, but as a regular citizen. He expressed personal indignation at the fact that his case remains unresolved for years,” Petsas said during the daily briefing on Thursday.
As expected he did not fele the need to elaborate whether ANt1 invited Georgiadis as Minister or as an indignant Greek citizen.
Strong reaction came from main opposition SYRIZA that said in a statement that if Georgiadis wants to comment as a “regular citizen”, he should leave his official post. SYRIZA spoke of the minister’s “brutal and vulgar intervention in Justice.”
Of course, the Prime Minister would not do SYRIZA a favor and dismiss the Development Minister. If he was to dismiss a minister hos what he says, Mitsotakis would have been replacing one minister once a month.
However, it is the second time, ruling New Democracy shield a government minister claiming that he talks like “like a citizen and not as a minister.”
PS In this country where twisting norms and values and lying has become the official government policy, political scientists started tearing up their diplomas long time ago.