The party said that, if the minister has indeed accepted and carried out such requests in ways that harmed the public interest, the state budget and European resources, prosecutors must step in without delay and compel him to submit all relevant evidence.
Speaking to SKAI television, Georgiadis said: ‘If an opposition MP dares to accuse my New Democracy colleagues over this dossier sent by Papandreou and Kövesi and whoever else sent it, I pledge to publish on my Twitter all the favours that he himself has asked me to do.’
In a statement, the party said that ‘the judiciary must summon Mr Georgiadis to provide all the evidence of the illegal actions and to explain his own involvement in them’. PASOK headquarters further stressed that ‘the health minister cannot be allowed to operate publicly as a moral blackmailer, insulting the entire political world in order to convince society that bribery leading to violations of the law is normal for everyone. Such is the state of decline.’
PASOK also accused Georgiadis of resorting to ‘cheap tricks’ and a whitewashing operation at a time when the judicial authorities are seeking an investigation into 13 New Democracy MPs and two former ministers.
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