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People we love to see in Greek Parliament
Members of the Greek Parliament like Michalis Tamilos from Trikala, Central Greece, must be a shining exception, “one in three hundred”, so to speak. He seems so much devoted to the promotion of the interests of his voters, that he considers as waste of time the participation to several parliamentary committees – how much more now that the allowance MPs get for this has been substantially cut into half.
Tamilos (Nea Dimocratia) complained about the increased parliamentray duties he has been assigned to. One of them, his participation to the sub-committee on Water Resources.
During a meeting of the sub-committee, Tamilos got upset for the long duration of the meeting, ‘while participants do not even get paid’.
“Here is not a university where we learn what’s going on with the environment. I’m not going to sit here and learn. Whoever knows about, knows about… Are we going to do some scientific analysis here?”
And continued teaching his colleagues about the duties of an MP:
“It’s not the work of lawmaker to be in committees and in the parliament the whole day and waste long hours on this. The work of lawmaker is to be in the ministries and promote the requests of his prefecture.”
And he added, setting his colleagues in stunning:
“We get paid once a month, while we come here every week?”
Tamilos’ outbust was filmed by the Parliament camera, and the footage was broadcast by a satirical show on private ANT1 television. The news made the rounds off- and online and reporters dug for some comment, on the following day.
But instead of apologizing or saying something like ” ‘t was a misunderstanding”, Tamilos hit back:
“You, journalists, instead of accusing us, MPs, for having voted for the austerity measures, you accusing us because we scratching our @@s”.
He argued that the subcommittees are supportive, that they produce no substantial work and “we sit there for 4.5 hours and nothing comes out.”
For this reason, he said he had already submitted a proposal to the Parliament speaker to “reduce the number of parliamentary committees.” (news247)
PS Rumors that he proposed as well to abolish the parliament and have only the cabinet of ministers are confirmed as baseless because then Michalis Tamilos would not be elected and he would not be able to appear before the minister and ask favors for his voters.
Also rumors that he asked “the MPs to attend committees without payment at all’ exist only in the the sphere of fantasy of KTG-readers.
2012-11-28 19:00:05
Source: http://www.keeptalkinggreece.com/2012/11/28/people-we-love-to-see-in-greek-parliament/
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