The Prosecutor of the Areios Pagos, Konstantinos Tzavellas, is expected to refuse to appear before the Institutions and Transparency Committee of Parliament, responding to the call of the Opposition to answer about the wiretaps case, according to media outlets.
He is expected to invoke the separation of powers and explain that the presence of a judicial official in Parliament for the provision of explanations regarding a judicial judgment is not compatible with the current constitutional framework, as Kathimerini reports.
His reasoning is that there are limits in the provisions of the Constitution and in the case law of the Areios Pagos, regarding the limits of parliamentary oversight over Justice.
Similar requests regarding the wiretaps had also been rejected in the past, both for former Prosecutor of the Supreme Court Georgia Adeilini, as well as for others.
Konstantinos Tzavellas is the Prosecutor who recently decided that the case file on the wiretaps should remain in the archive and his summoning by the parties of the Opposition, namely PASOK, SYRIZA, Communist Party of Greece, Course of Freedom and New Left.
He judged that no new data emerged that would justify the retrieval of the case from the archive, in order for it to be re-examined. Of course, officially the summons concerned “issues of competence and operation”, but it is considered certain that it mainly concerned the above prosecutorial judgment.
Similar requests regarding the wiretaps had also been rejected in the past, both for former Prosecutor of the Areios Pagos Georgia Adeilini, as well as for other senior judicial officials who had been involved in investigations related to the wiretaps case.
Sources: ΤΑ ΝΕΑ, ΤΟ ΒΗΜΑ, Εφημερίδα των Συντακτών, Καθημερινή
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