{"id":5128,"date":"2025-03-19T20:29:14","date_gmt":"2025-03-19T20:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/19\/ministers-and-justice-ekathimerini-com\/"},"modified":"2025-03-19T20:29:14","modified_gmt":"2025-03-19T20:29:14","slug":"ministers-and-justice-ekathimerini-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/19\/ministers-and-justice-ekathimerini-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Ministers and justice | eKathimerini.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-1264470\">\n    <!-- .entry-header --><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content\" itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p>After decades of debate, all parties now seem to agree on one point: The constitutional protections granted to ministers against criminal prosecution are excessive. Parliament has failed to convince the public that it can effectively fulfill prosecutorial and investigative duties. The decision of the accused former deputy minister to face justice without the \u201cshield\u201d of the ruling party\u2019s majority in the parliamentary preliminary investigation committee signals the direction a future constitutional revision should take.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- .entry-content --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n        var NXFBPixelFunc = function () {\n            document.removeEventListener(\"scroll\", NXFBPixelFunc);\n            setTimeout(function () {\n                !function (f, b, e, v, n, t, s) {\n                    if (f.fbq) return;\n                    n = f.fbq = function () {\n                        n.callMethod ?\n                            n.callMethod.apply(n, arguments) : n.queue.push(arguments)\n                    };\n                    if (!f._fbq) f._fbq = n;\n                    n.push = n;\n                    n.loaded = !0;\n                    n.version = '2.0';\n                    n.queue = [];\n                    t = b.createElement(e);\n                    t.async = !0;\n                    t.src = v;\n                    s = b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n                    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t, s)\n                }(window, document, 'script',\n                    'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n                fbq('init', '109138906120213');\n                fbq('track', 'PageView');\n            }, 0)\n        };\n        document.addEventListener(\"scroll\", NXFBPixelFunc);\n    <\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/opinion\/1264470\/ministers-and-justice\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After decades of debate, all parties now seem to agree on one point: The constitutional protections granted to ministers against criminal prosecution are excessive. Parliament has failed to convince the public that it can effectively fulfill prosecutorial and investigative duties. The decision of the accused former deputy minister to face justice without the \u201cshield\u201d of &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"Ministers and justice | eKathimerini.com\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/19\/ministers-and-justice-ekathimerini-com\/#more-5128\" aria-label=\"Read more about Ministers and justice | eKathimerini.com\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","no-featured-image-padding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}