Health Minister Adonis Georgiadis revealed on Friday morning that the Interior Ministry has launched a disciplinary investigation into the swearing-in of Petros Konstantinou as a municipal councilor in the Municipality of Athens.

“The Interior Ministry and Mr. Livanios have initiated the appropriate disciplinary investigations into this case. Whether he will lose his position will be decided by the relevant authorities,” the minister said on SKAI Radio.

He also described the swearing-in ceremony of the ANTARSYA councilor as “a ridiculousness allowed by Doukas.” “Those who did not go vote for Bakoyannis in the second round should think about it. The ridiculousness concerns the Municipality itself. It was also an obvious illegality because he did not recite the legally prescribed oath, and on the document he signed he stated that he had. Therefore, there is some form of falsification,” Georgiadis concluded.

Konstantinou’s Swearing-In

Although the oath Petros Konstantinou was supposed to take during his swearing-in ceremony as a municipal councilor of the Municipality of Athens — since ANTARSYA rotates its single seat on the council — was:

“I declare, invoking my honor and conscience, that I will be loyal to Greece, obey the Constitution and the laws, and faithfully and conscientiously fulfill my duties,”

Petros Konstantinou instead read his own version, prompting the Health Minister to describe the scenes in a post on X as “outrageous” and an embarrassment to the process, with “nonsense instead of the oath to the Constitution and the laws of the Hellenic Republic.”

“He has absolutely no place there until he takes the legally prescribed oath,” Adonis Georgiadis had written.

Specifically, Petros Konstantinou read the following statement:

“I declare on my honor and conscience that I will fight for the defense of the interests of workers, both locals and migrants, for the overthrow of the barbaric attack of the government-capital-EU and imperialism. So that our lives come before their profits! To put an end to wars and the genocide in Gaza. To punish the murderers in Tempi, Pylos, and Violanta. For freedom in Palestine and internationalist solidarity above borders. For a society under workers’ control, free from capitalist barbarism and exploitation, poverty and oppression, with complete separation of Church and State. For a society without discrimination based on race, gender, nation, or religion. Eighty-two years after the liberation of Athens from Nazi occupation, honoring the dead of the Resistance, the 200 executed in Kaisariani, honoring Pavlos Fyssas, Shehzad Luqman, and Alexis Grigoropoulos, I will fight for a city aligned with social needs and the environment, with democracy, freedom, solidarity, without racism and neo-Nazis.”

According to the municipal faction “Anatreptiki Symmachia gia tin Athina” (“Overthrow Alliance for Athens”), those present at the swearing-in included:

• Kostas Papadakis, head of the faction and candidate for Mayor of Athens, member of the Athens Bar Association board;
• Javed Aslam, whose asylum status — following what they described as an open intervention by Thanos Plevris — will be reviewed by a committee on May 15;
• migrant female school cleaners employed by the Municipality of Athens;
• and Khalit, described as a Palestinian activist.