In a television interview Kammenos noted that three months ago a member of the New Democracy approached one of his MPs and offered her three million Euros in order to secure their vote.
(According to a report on ProtoThema -and the Kontra News Video BELOW- the MP's name is George Soukouri).
It should be reminded that the Greek Parliament is getting ready to vote for a new President of the Republic in March 2015 and the governing coalition is struggling to mass the required 180 votes that are needed in order to do so, or they will be forced to hold snap elections.
The MP, Stavroula Xoulidou, confirmed the information on a televised news show on Tuesday night. She told BlueSky Tv that she received a phone call from a member of the governing party and was offered a bribe that would have solved her economic problems "for life".
Unlike Kammenos, who was very specific about the sum, Xoulidou said that she was offered a bribe in the area of two to three million euros.
She then revealed that ANEL MP Panagiotis Melas had already accepted such a bribe. She said she uncovered this information via an email that was given to her by the ND member who offered her the bribe.
Upon hearing the news, Mr. Melas telephoned the news show and challenged Xoulidou to name the so-called MP so that he could sue him immediately for spreading malicious lies, and if she refused to do so then he would issue a lawsuit against her for involving his name.
He didn't have a chance to, following the news, and with the intent of not permitting a climate of mudslinging to hover over the Greek political scene, Supreme Court Prosecutor Efterpi Koutzamani re-opened a previous case that apparently involves the attempted bribery of politicians.
It should be recalled that in October the main opposition party SYRIZA had cited news reports which hinted that the New Democracy party was collecting bribes for MPs to secure 180 MPs to ultimately elect a President of the Republic from the current Parliament. The move prompted Koutzamani to order an urgent preliminary investigation into these serious allegations and to establish whether or not the crime of MP bribery had been committed. As we all know, the probe proved fruitless since there wasn't sufficient evidence to back up SYRIZA's claims, and rather turned out to be an attempted mud-slinging tactic by the main opposition to discredit the government. (Read relevant article by clicking HERE)
References in Greek
Dexiextrem
http://dexiextrem.blogspot.gr/2014/11/blog-post_9118.html
ProtoThema
http://www.protothema.gr/politics/article/429723/kammenos-autos-prosefere-3-ekat-stin-xoulidou-gia-na-psifisei-gia-ptd/
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