Pavlos Polakis

The balance of the election and the fear of electoral losses due to Polakis prodded the entire SYRIZA party and its Political Secretariat unanimously to embrace him once again.

According to SYRIZA, the decision of the vice-speaker of Parliament to cut off an opposition MP’s speech and shut the microphone of the podium was an 'unprecedented, undemocratic, and coup-style muzzling of an MP'.

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis during the weekend debate on SYRIZA’a failed no confidence motion demanded that SYRIZA apologise for its false accusation against top ND cadres, including former PM Antonis Samaras.

The main opposition has not considered that SYRIZA is not appealing because on all issues on the political agenda – from the Prespes Agreement to [convicted N17 terrorist Dimitris] Koufodinas, and from COVID-19 to the purchase of frigates – it has never once aligned itself with the social majority.

Pavlos Polakis, he coarse native of the Cretan town of Sfakia, which is historically known for its bravery, is not the exception in Syriza but rather an organic part of the party.

In a result that rings alarm bells, extreme right-wing Golden Dawn, whose leaders are self-professed admirers of Hitler, placed third with 6.0 percent in an Alco poll.

Mitsotakis said Tsipras' economic stimulus programme, including tax cuts, is too little too late and is in no way a growth programme.

ND tabled the no confidence motion when Polakis attacked its European Parliament candidate Stelios Kimbouropoulos, a psychiatrist who is paraplegic, because he used affirmative action

It is a dishonour for any politician to invoke a law that protects ministers from prosecution by requiring that Parliament lift his or her parliamentary immunity.

'The competent authorities of the Single Supervisory Mechanism (SSM) is a matter of continuous concern to the European Central Bank (ECB), which stands ready to react decisively against threats to independence,' SSM's Andreas Enri replied to MEP Eva Kaili

A detailed transcript of the conversation was published by the pro-government newspaper and website Documento, but Polakis later denied that he had recorded it.

Power is characterised mainly by the demeanour and mores that accompany it. Currently, the level of mores is contemptible and the demeanour is enraging.

When Greece had already registered 39 deaths from the flu Alternate Health Minister Pavlos Polakis appeared on a television network and said “This is not a catastrophe.” Will he revise his assessment now that there are 74 deaths? If not, how many dead would it take for him to feel concern? These rhetorical questions are […]

Major international media reported on Alternate Health Minister Pavlos Polakis’ behaviour towards Bank of Greece Governor Yannis Stournaras.

Alternate Health Minister Pavlos Polakis, who loses no opportunity to target his opponents and their families, and who is continuing a legal battle against a deceased journalist, now is playing the slighted and targeted victim.

Polakis placed the call in order to discuss reports that the Bank of Greece was to probe a 100,000-euro loan that was issued to him by the Attica Bank.

In the recorded conversation, Polakis demands that Stournaras also probe the loans of political parties and of other politicians.

It is not just democratic norms that mandate that a minister cannot tell a journalist “Who are you to ask me?”

New Democracy has lashed out against the government with weighty charges of judicial meddling and of having set up a conspiracy to incriminate politicians.

It is now clear that judicial functionaries were marshaled in the government’s effort to transform the whole country into a boundless courtroom.

The criminalisation of political life will not cease., as all means will be marshaled in what the government views as a battle to the bitter end, and without rules.   

Individuals in the prosecutor’s circle speak of the constant interventions of a minister, who is described as 'Rasputin', and who 'with the demeanour of a pimp dictates how cases should be handled'.

The various institutions linked to the independent judiciary, which has been turned into a tool by ministers and MPs, usually tolerate and remain silent about the provocations to which they are subjected.