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Handcuffs and Tears as Greek Parliament Lifts 4 MPs' Immunity

Despite tears and tantrums, parliamentary immunity enjoyed by Greece 's Golden Dawn MPs Giorgos Germenis and Nikos Michos, as well as two former (now independent) members, Chrysovalantis Alexopoulos and Stathis Boukouras, was lifted at a dramatic vote in the chamber Wednesday. The decision to...

Immunity Lifted for Three Golden Dawn MPs

The Ethics Committee of the Greek parliament has decided to lift the parliamentary immunity of another three members of the political party Golden Dawn’s parliamentary representatives, Eleni Zaroulia, Ilias Kasidiaris and Michalis Arvanitis. The eight MPs of New Democracy, SYRIZA,...

Greece's Major Opposition Party Favors Golden Dawn MP'S Immunity Lift

  The parliamentary group of Greece’s major opposition party, SYRIZA, decided that the party’s MPs will vote in favor of the immunity lift of Golden Dawn’s MPs, after a similar recommendation was made by SYRIZA’s political secretariat last week. However, during...

Independent Greeks MP's Immunity Lifted

Greece’s Parliament decided on Wednesday January 22, to lift the immunity of the Independent Greek MPVassilis Kapernaros, but not of the deputies Miltiadis Varvitsiotis and Argyris Dinopoulos. According to Christos Markogiannakis, who presided at the voting, about 230 deputies took...

Greek Parliament Lifts Immunity of 6 Golden Dawn MP's

The Greek Parliament voted to lift the immunity of the 6 Golden Dawn MP's after their involvement in the murder of Greek rapper, Pavlos Fyssas. Regarding the case of Giorgos Germenis, Panayiotis Iliopoulos and Eustathios Boukouras, 246 votes were...