Parliament votes to lift immunity of Greek Solution leader Velopoulos

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Parliament voted Wednesday to assistance the parliamentary immunity of far-right enactment person Kyriakos Velopoulos pursuing a defamation suit filed by a governmental campaigner from different right-wing party.

Lawmakers voted 97 successful favour of lifting the immunity of the person of Greek Solution, with 79 voting against and 18 abstaining.

The lawsuit stems from a suit filed by Christos Kostakis, a governmental campaigner with the anti-immigration enactment Voice of Reason, accusing Velopoulos of slander and insult.

Although Velopoulos had reportedly requested the lifting of his immunity during discussions astatine Parliament’s morals committee, his enactment aboriginal reversed people up of the plenary vote.

Konstantinos Chitas, parliamentary spokesman for Greek Solution, announced that the party’s lawmakers would vote against lifting the immunity, while urging different parties to vote “according to their conscience.”

According to Chitas, the complainant had antecedently described Greek Solution arsenic “the enactment of kid abusers” and continued to reproduce what helium called “filthy articles” contempt ineligible enactment taken against him.

Under Greek law, lawmakers bask parliamentary immunity from prosecution unless Parliament votes to waive it. The vote allows judicial proceedings against Velopoulos to determination forward.