With the Lincoln Memorial as a backdrop, Washington’s Greek-American community welcomed Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew at a dinner hosted by businessman John Koudounis, featuring special guest House Speaker Mike Johnson and a wide roster of political and community figures.
The Niki party announced on Tuesday morning that it has removed its MP Nikos Vrettos from the parliamentary inquiry into the OPKEPE scandal. The decision came shortly after the first session of the inquiry and follows Vrettos’s support for New Democracy’s proposal for the inquiry’s president. According to the party’s statement, the move followed what it described as Vrettos’s “arbitrary initiative” to support the New Democracy candidate. Vrettos reportedly explained his vote by saying he did so “because New Democracy has the right to elect the President of the Committee.” The party says this action ran against Niki’s official position on a matter it considers very serious. In addition to his removal from the inquiry committee, the party has initiated the internal process defined by its statutes to refer Vrettos to the Ethics Committee with a request for his expulsion. The statement notes that this latest deviation adds to earlier instances in which Vrettos diverged from the party line on important bills and other key issues in recent weeks. Niki’s announcement also reiterated the party’s view of the OPKEPE affair as a grave matter. The statement called the scandal “a crime against our country” and said those involved or covering it up should be treated accordingly. The party emphasized that the OPKEPE inquiry is not a place for political games but a setting to seek accountability and protect the nation’s interests.
SYRIZA Mass Resignation Sparks Political Crisis: Understanding the Internal Conflicts of 2025 SYRIZA Progressive Alliance News: Key Leaders Criticize Current…
