His condemnation was unanimous. Pavlos Polakis behavior by parliamentary representatives, although they fully agreed with the severe penalties imposed on the deputy by the President of Parliament, K. Tasoulas.
“We are not perfect in judging Mr. Polakis so harshly. And first of all, I am not perfect. But there are limits and those limits have been shamefully exceeded today and we must react,” the Speaker of Parliament said.
“We support everything the President of Parliament said, Kostas Tassoulas and let’s keep it positive that it was. Mrs. Linou’s reaction and her tears over what happened. It represents all of us and everyone immediately condemned the incident,” said Mr. ND Parliamentary Representative Thanasis Pleuris and added: “Because I listened very carefully to Mr Famelo, we will have to reflect at some point as a whole on how we ourselves will protect the prestige of Parliament. In the case of Mr Polakis, it was a special case that caused a lot, but we must look at all our behaviour.”
At this point, the President of Parliament intervened for the second time, to underline that “looking at the minutes of Parliament, Mr. Bibilas also disapproved of the behavior of Mr. Polakis and the chairman of the committee, Giorgos Stylios, characterizing Mr. Polakis’s behavior as highly unacceptable and, therefore, there is this unanimity in disapproval.”
“Some people pursue a political career because many of us who don’t fight, don’t argue, don’t shout, don’t feel like fighting with them, because it’s not our style and because mentally we can’t stand receiving insults and insults. And that leaves them in an immunity, in an invulnerability, because no one wants to mess with them,” he said.
“End of this story”
As Mr. Tasoulas said, “Nobody deals with it, because nobody, to be fair, wants to deal with the courts.”
“Well, that’s the end of this story. The end. He cannot continually have the same people – and also himself – tarnish his title, his role, his party, all of us, because we have no desire to fight with him. Let me repeat. The rules of the Parliament were made for people who behave much better and sometimes rarely paraphrase, out of hope. Here we rarely have hope. We hope he is well. This today has crossed all limits,” said the President of the Parliament.
Will consider stricter changes to the Chamber’s Rules of Procedure
At the same time, he made it known that he would consider more stringent changes to Parliament’s regulations.
“Certainly, Mrs. Athina Glinou, expressing herself to everyone with the sensitivity of a deeply civilized woman, reacted in time, correctly, but I also have to preserve the prestige of Parliament. I have no other more rigorous means, I will obviously resort to more rigorous changes in the regulations. I am ashamed of this necessity and I hope that this will not happen again, but I do not believe it, because there is a perception that as long as we are like this, behaving aggressively, this can be accepted in a small part of society. Well, it is not acceptable for us. And we are not perfect who judges Mr. Polakis with this severity. And first of all I am not perfect, but there are limits and the limits were shamefully crossed today and we have to react,” said Mr. Glinou.
“It is clear that this is an unacceptable and reprehensible event, an insult to human dignity and we agree in this regard with the new announcements made by the Mayor,” he said in turn. the parliamentary representative of the KKE, Nikos Karathanasopoulos.
“We also unequivocally condemn the incident. Amidst all this negativity and the many incidents that are happening, there is an optimistic message. It is – and congratulations to SYRIZA President Sokratis Famelos for the immediate reaction, and to Athina Glinou, the hope that in every incident of this kind all parties in Parliament will unite against violence and we will remain with this pleasant message that we will always condemn it,” he stressed on behalf of NIKI parliamentary representative, Giorgos Tsironis.
“We agree with the Speaker of Parliament,” said Mr. parliamentary representative of the “Spartans”, Thanasis Chalkias and added: “I would also like to condemn this event and all the events that have happened before in this room. They will always be condemned and reprehensible on our part, they are not appropriate for parliamentarism and I want to hope that this will be the last event”.