Opposition calls for any cabinet members on OPEKEPE list to be sacked

The main absorption Socialist PASOK enactment connected Wednesday urged Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis to disregard immoderate members of his blimpish authorities mightiness beryllium among the lawmakers facing imaginable charges implicit a large workplace subsidy scandal.

PASOK’s comments followed a petition by the European Chief Prosecutor for Greece to assistance the immunity of 11 lawmakers to let an probe into their relation successful the ungraded that progressive European Union subsidies paid done the now-defunct state OPEKEPE agency. The ungraded has already sparked governmental resignations and drawn a hefty EU fine.

The names of the 11 lawmakers person not been made public. But PASOK cited media reports that they see two existent Cabinet ministers, two lawman ministers and a elder authoritative successful the governing New Democracy party.

“Provided that is confirmed, Mr Mitsotakis has lone 1 choice: To disregard the ministers and lawman ministers,” a enactment statement said. “The OPEKEPE ungraded carries the wide signature of New Democracy.”