Your Parliamentary Group PASOK presented an amendment requesting the suspension of state funding of the “Spartans”.
In the explanatory memorandum of the amendment presented under the leadership of PASOK President Nikos Androulakis and signed by the entire Parliamentary Group, reference is made to article 6, paragraph 1, of PD 15/2022, which states that State funding of a party is suspended in the event of criminal prosecution and imposition of temporary imprisonment against a party leader or president of the KO or the person exercising effective management of a party. Deputies note that this regulation needs to be complemented to cover all cases of direct or indirect channeling of state financial support to political parties to support criminal activities, regardless of the shell party in the context in which the aforementioned criminal acts occurred.
At the same time, reference is made to the “decision of the Political Department A1 of the Supreme Court which accepted that Ilias Kasidiaris is the true leader of the party “SPARTIATES” which replaces “HRYSI AVGI”, but also to the decision of the First Court of Appeal of Athens, composed of three members, for which Ilias Kasidiaris, was found guilty of the crimes of: a) joining and directing the criminal organization “LAIKOS SYDESMOS-HRYSI AVGI” and b) illegal possession of a firearm and sentenced to a total sentence of 13 (thirteen ) years and 6 (six) months, which he fulfills, given that with the above decision it was decided that any appeal brought against him will not have a suspensive effect, while on 19-12-2022 his request for suspension of the execution of the first instance decision mentioned above was rejected by the five-member Athens Court of Appeal.
The change
With the amendment, it is proposed that paragraph 1 of article 6 of PD 15/2022 be amended as follows:
“In the event of conviction of any degree or process and imposition of temporary imprisonment under the terms of article 282 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, against the leader of a party or the president of a parliamentary group or anyone who exercises the direction of a party or against more than one-fifth (1/5) of the deputies or one-fifth of the MEPs or one-fifth (1/5) of the members of the central governing body of a party or coalition of parties, in accordance with its statutes, for the crimes of articles 187 and 187-A of the Penal Code, any type of financing and financial support from the State after a decision by Parliament by nominal vote and absolute majority of the entire number of deputies”.
The following is the text of the PASOK amendment:
Amendment to the Ministry of the Interior’s proposed law “Acceleration of recruitment through ASEP, amendments to the Code of Statute of Public Administrative Political Employees and NPDD Employees and the Code of Statute of Municipal and Community Servants, system of incentives and rewards for civil servants public servants, regulation of the evaluation system for public servants and other provisions to improve the functioning of public administration”
Subject: “Suspension of state financing of parties – Amendment of paragraph 1 of article 6 of PD 15/2022”
EXPLANATORY OF MEMORANDUM
Article 29(2) Syn., which enshrines the right of political parties to financial support from the State, is not independent of Article 29(1) Syn. the democratic state. As the CoE also accepted in its Plenary Decision No. 518/2015 “the Constitution does not exclude the establishment by law of conditions for the provision of state financial support to parties… not only for reasons related to the management of this support by the beneficiary party… but also for essential reasons, related to its action in general, which, according to article 29, no. 1, of the Constitution, must serve the free functioning of the democratic State”.
In this context, article 6, no. 1, of PD 15/2022, in its wording, already establishes that “In the case of criminal action and imposition of temporary imprisonment under the terms of article 282 of the Code of Criminal Procedure , against the leader of a party or the leader of the party”. president of a parliamentary group or one who manages the party or by more than one-fifth (1/5) of the deputies or one-fifth of the MEPs or one-fifth (1/5) of the deputies of the central governing body of a party or coalition of parties, in accordance with its statutes, for the crimes of articles 187 and 187-A of the Penal Code, any type of financing and financial assistance from the State is suspended after a decision by Parliament by roll call vote. convocation and absolute majority of the entire number of deputies. Suspension may be imposed if the acts of the natural persons referred to above were carried out within the scope of the action of the party to which they belong or on their behalf”.
This regulation needs to be complemented according to its proportion, so that its application expressis verbis covers all cases of direct or indirect channeling of state financial support to political parties to support criminal activities, regardless of the shadow party in the context of which the aforementioned criminal acts.
This is because decision No. 1/2024 of the Political Department A1 of the Supreme Court accepted that Ilias Kasidiaris is the true leader of the “SPARTATES” party that replaces “GLOREN DAWN”. It should be noted that, by decision 2644/22-10-2020 of the First Three-Member Court of Appeal of Athens, the aforementioned, Ilias Kasidiaris, was found guilty of the crimes of: a) joining and directing the criminal organization “LAIKOS SYDESMOS- HRYSI AVGI” and b) of illegal possession of a firearm and be sentenced to a total sentence of thirteen (13) years and six (6) months, which he fulfills, given that with the above decision it was decided that any appeal filed under his responsibility will not has suspensive effect, while, on 19-12-2022, its request to suspend the execution of the aforementioned first instance decision was rejected by the Five-member Court of Appeal of Athens.
According to the operative part of decision 2644/22-10-2020 of the First Tripartite Court of Appeal of Athens, Ilias Kasidiaris de Panagiotis was found guilty of: “In Athens, from the year 2008, the accused in question together with his co-accused a) Nikolaou Michaloliakou, b) Georgiou Germenis, c) Ioannis Lagou, d) Ilias Panagiotarou, e) Artemiou Matthaiopoulos, f) Christos Pappas and several other known and unknown people, in any case, much more than than three, joined as a member and continuously participated in the ongoing and service-structured criminal organization “Laikos Syndesmos-Chrysi Avgi”, which was originally founded by Nikolaos Michaloliakos in the 1980s as a political organization and later evolved into a political party with the same name .
Judging by decision No. 1/2024 of the Political Department A1 of the Supreme Court, Ilias Kasidiaris has never disapproved or repudiated, not even in the least, the previous – as leader of GOLDEN DAWN – hate speech, the violent and his racist action , within the scope of the criminal mechanism of the aforementioned party, copying the institutional mechanisms of the Greek State, the intended policy of destroying the democratic institutions of the rule of law and the disapproval of the rights and freedoms recognized by democracy.
Thus, decision No. 1/2024 of the Political Department A1 of the Supreme Court ruled that there is no case for declaring the combination “SPARTATES” in the elections for the appointment of Members of the European Parliament, which finally took place on June 9 September 2024 without the participation of the above political party. When finally accepted by the Supreme Court, it was “clear that Ilias Kasidiaris has exercised the true leadership of the party” ESPARTIATES “since at least 8-6-2023, whose electoral campaign he also organized with his repeated posts on the internet, although he was a prisoner” .
PROPOSED CHANGE
In the proposed law of the Ministry of the Interior “Acceleration of recruitment through ASEP, amendments to the Code of Statute of Administrative Public Political Employees and NPDD Employees and the Code of Statute of Municipal and Community Employees, system of incentives and rewards for public employees , regulation of the evaluation system for public servants and other provisions for improving the functioning of public administration” an article with the following wording is added:
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Paragraph 1 of article 6 of PD 15/2022 is amended as follows:
“In the event of conviction of any degree or process and imposition of temporary imprisonment under the terms of article 282 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, against the leader of a party or the president of a parliamentary group or anyone who exercises the direction of a party or against more than one-fifth (1/5) of the deputies or one-fifth of the MEPs or one-fifth (1/5) of the members of the central governing body of a party or coalition of parties, in accordance with its statutes, for the crimes of articles 187 and 187-A of the Penal Code, any type of financing and financial support from the State after a decision by Parliament by nominal vote and absolute majority of the entire number of deputies”.