New Democracy lawmaker and former transport minister Kostas A. Karamanlis is expected to announce Saturday that he will not be a candidate in the next general elections, Kathimerini understands.
The MP from Serres is among the 11 lawmakers of the ruling party named in an investigation by European prosecutors into a massive farm subsidies scandal that was delivered to Parliament on Friday.
The investigations involve alleged fraud in the distribution of European Union farm subsidies to political cronies through the now-defunct OPEKEPE state agency.
Kathimerini reported that Karamanlis spoke on Friday with the prime minister’s office on the matter.
If he does not participate in the next elections it will be the first time since 1974 that no member of the Karamanlis political dynasty is in the Greek Parliament.