The wife of Prime Minister Mareva Grabovksy-Mitsotakis is legally pursuing Member of Parliament for SYRIZA, Elena Akrita, following a post by Ms. Akrita on social media, which is deemed defamatory.
Specifically, as announced by the Prime Minister’s Press Office, “Following yesterday’s defamatory post by SYRIZA’s Member of Parliament Elena Akrita, the content of which she repeated today, Mrs. Mareva Grabovksy-Mitsotakis will take the necessary legal actions under civil and criminal law in the immediate future, aiming to restore truth and her personal reputation. We consider it self-evident that the entire parliamentary group of SYRIZA will accept the lifting of Ms. Akrita’s immunity in order for her to be accountable to justice for her false and defamatory allegations.”
The post by the SYRIZA MP that triggered the reaction of Mrs. Grabovksy-Mitsotakis is a comment on another post by journalist Thanos Dimadis, who claimed, “Mareva Mitsotakis’ mistake in Greece is that she wasn’t born Tyler”, referring to Stefanos Kasselakis’ spouse.
Mrs. Akrita reiterated the content of this post today, following the call by Health Minister Adonis Georgiadis for the MP to apologize to Mrs. Mitsotakis. Mr. Georgiadis, speaking on a television show, noted that Mrs. Akrita should be ashamed, as her political opponent is Kyriakos Mitsotakis, and he wondered how, as a woman, she accepts another woman being the target of such relentless criticism simply because she married someone. “I’ve been a minister for five years; she hasn’t called me once, hasn’t sent a message about ministry matters. Mr. Dimadis wrote something. Mrs. Akrita sits there and insults the prime minister’s wife? What do they want? To destroy the Mitsotakis family?”
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