A parliamentary committee is objecting to government plans to close 21 organizations deemed no longer useful, saying it violates the Greek Constitution.
The shutdowns were ordered by the country’s international lenders, the Troika of the Europoean Union-International Monetary Fund-European Central Bank (EU-IMF-ECB) amid criticism Greece has kept alive redundant and useless agencies.
That comes in the aftermath of court ruling and expected decisions also declaring other austerity measures unconstitutional, such as pay cuts to the military and emergency services and the slashing of lump sums earned by pensioners through deductions from their salaries over years of work, which the court says doesn’t belong to the government.
In its report, the committee invoked several articles of the Constitution that it maintained are being breached. The abolition of a state organization can only be carried out if it has been preceded by a comprehensive study that redefines the operation of the state after the administrative overhaul, it was noted.
The committee also objected to the allocation of external advisers to evaluate the efficiency of state organizations and the employees who staff them saying it doesn’t want private advisers determining the worth of workers although critics said government agencies have been wildly overstaffed through generations of needless hiring in political patronage.
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