Parliament (Photo credit: magrippi) |
The Greek Parliament voted to lift immunity from prosecution for three of its members, including Golden Dawn (Chryssi Avgi) MP Constantinos Barbaroussis for his part in destroying the stalls of the foreign street market vendors in the town of Messolonghi. According to the state news agency the other two MPs for which immunity was lifted were Christos Kellas of New Democracy and Georgios Lambroulis of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE), whose cases were found to be unrelated to their political or parliamentary status or activities. It voted against lifting immunity for PASOK MP Leonidas Grigorakos by 196 votes against, 23 in favour and one blank vote.