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GREEK ELECTION: Athens Bar Association declares June 17th election null and void, suspects criminal activity
SENSATION AS TOP GREEK LAWYERS’ BODY ACCUSES ELSTAT OF CRIMINAL DECEPTION
ELSTAT ALREADY FOUND GUILTY OF MISLEADING BRUSSELS OVER GREEK DEBT
Special Porta-Porta account released exclusively to The Slog
Very little surprises me about the eurozone any more, but this latest development out of Athens beats anything yet seen: the Athens Bar Association (DSA) has just released a memorandum declaring the recent Greek general election void because of an out-of-date census having been used…and hints darkly at the ulterior motives of Elstat, the national statistical organisation originally found to have been complicit in the plot to disguise Greece’s true fiscal position in its reports to the European Commission in 2008.
In a nutshell, the 2011 census was not used last week: the June 17th election seats-per-constituency allocation was based on the 2001 census…now over a decade out of date.
The DSA release follows:
IOANNIS ADAMOPOULOS, President of the Athens Bar Association (DSA).
EXTREMELY SERIOUS CONSTITUTIONAL FAILURE
‘The number of parliament members for every constituency being defined by presidential decree based on the legal population of the constituency that results according to the latest census, the results of the latest census are considered published based on the data gathered by the relevant services, one year after the date the census actually took place”.
In this case, the last census was completed by the National Committee of Statistics (ELSTAT) on 24th May 2011 – a date which is official, and confirmed beyond any doubt by a press release from ELSTAT.
Therefore, as a year has already passed since the last day of the completion of the above mentioned census, the number of parliamentary seats in every constituency should be defined based on the legal population of these constituencies, as derived, according to this census.’
In fact, the 2001 census data was used.
The release continues:
‘An extremely serious constitutional failure has occurred, as we estimate that substantial changes have occurred in the population distribution in every constituency in comparison with the previous census of 2001.
Not only the redistribution of the parliamentary seats in every constituency but also the redefinition of parliamentary representation of every party, is possibly at risk. In view of all the above, the DSA expresses its deep institutional concern regarding the risk of an acute constitutional crisis which is expected to cause damage to the function of the democratic institutions.’
But the real sting is in this final paragraph:
‘This is, of course, not the first time that actions or omissions by ELSTAT required further investigation and criminal evaluation. We remind readers that already, since 29th September 2011, DSA has filed a law suit with regard to very serious offences committed by ELSTAT concerning the illegal overstatement of the revised deficit of 2009 to 15.4%, as a result of which we now see the subjection of Greece to the current Memorandum and the subsequent imposition of austerity and other measures on the Greek People.’
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ESM & FISCAL UNION: German President refers Merkel plans to Karlsruhe Court
Major victory for Germany’s financial opposition
A furious exchange allegedly took place by telephone last night between Kanzler Merkel and the Bundespräsident, her former fellow Osti Joachim Gauck. Gauck announced yesterday that he would not ratify the EU’s second-generation rescue fund, known as the European Stability Mechanism (ESM), until legal challenges to the fund had been cleared. The German Constitutional Court had asked earlier in the day that the President grant the Karslruhe judges time to examine a probable legal challenge from the Left party.
I understand that this was a pre-arranged ‘staged’ exchange between Karlsruhe and Gauck. Both hold deep suspicions about Angela Merkel’s commitment to democracy and the Rule of Law.
The Slog has been on the case between these two for some time. As I posted last February when Gauck was fist appointed, ‘Chancellor Angela Merkel did not want Gauck at any price – this despite the fact that opinion polls show he is a popular choice. Frau Merkel has a track record of trying to keep Gauck out of office. In 2010, Gauck had been the Opposition’s candidate: but the now disgraced Christian Wulff took three ballots back then (and a lot of Merkelite arm-twisting) to get the Presidency from which he was forced to resign last week…’
There are two reasons why she didn’t want Joachim in the Presidential office. The first is that he knew her father (they were both pastors in the DDR) and after reunification Gauck was for a time in charge of reading Stasi files to finger those who had secretly worked for that most pernicious of security agencies. There seems little doubt that Gauck knows the full degree of cooperation between both the Merkels and the Communist regime.
The second is that Joachim Gauck has long suspected totalitarian instincts inside the dictatorial mind of the Chancellor – and she knows this. Although technically his role is largely ceremonial, he does have the power to refer Bundestag (or Executive) actions to the Karlruhe Court if he thinks them unconstitutional. In practice, I am told by one source that the Left Party was prodded with a large wink to make the complaint to the Constitutional Court.
Several hours before Gauck’s announcement, Bundestag legislators announced they had agreed a deal to guarantee the required two-thirds majority on the ESM and the fiscal pact. The need for a two-thirds majority meant the ruling coalition would not have been able to push the measures through without broader support…but now they had it. This was the trigger for President Gauck to make his move.
Bundestag members were furious last night (this now means Fiskalpakt cannot become law throughout the eurozone on July 1st as planned) but of course Frankfurt’s private banking community were happy last night – as The Slog’s longstanding Bankfurt Mole was able to confirm.
“We have seen in recent months how most of our worst fears have become realities,” he began, “and I for one would rather she was stopped before we end up with the bill for everything. You can also be certain that the Bundesbank has been liaising with the President for some time.”
Merkel’s dash for Fiscal Union, some inside German politics believe, is seen by the group around her as far from being an obstacle: on the contrary, one middle-weight FPD member writes to tell me, “The danger to the eurozone you should see as Merkel’s Reichstag Fire. It has forced a sense of imminent collapse, and overridden opposition that would otherwise have been far more sceptical about fiscal union.”
The reference is to the use by the Nazis of a fire ‘started by Communists’ in the Reichstag during late 1933 as the pretext for introducing sweeping emergency legislation. But that is a niche minority view: the majority of Germans are worried about the responsibility Germany is taking on, but also proud of Merkel’s determined stance.
Gauck can only delay the ESM decision. In theory, the Karlsruhe Court could rule it unconstitutional. But then, that hasn’t held Angela Merkel and her Sprout allies back before.
Nevertheless, what we can see here is an influential opposition in Germany that is implacably opposed to Merkel’s desire for several responsibility when it comes to eurozone debt. I have been banging on about this for months, although generally speaking the pieces have attracted scorn from Europe-based MSM folks. The anti-FU tendency may yet prove to be all bark and no bite, but perhaps the last word on this should go to our resident Fifth Columnist eurocrat in Brussels:
“Merkel’s Fiscal Union strategy is really an open book for anyone paying attention. She has a limited window of time during which the idea is credible. But with every week that goes by the entire scheme looks increasingly flawed. Already the Union is bound to contain at least four countries in serious financial straits. If Greece defaults (and that is seen as a strong possibility still here) and French banks get into trouble, the whole edifice could crumble within days. With no Fiscal Union there could be no EU dominated by Merkel and Schäuble. What Gauck did yesterday was an important act of sabotage.”
We may all one day be very grateful to the German President. Stay tuned.
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