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A motion of censure against Deputy Health Minister Pavlos Polakis was filed in parliament on Monday evening by main opposition party New Democracy leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis.

• In response, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras met the censure with a call for a confidence vote, as announced by Parliament’s vice president Nikitas Kaklamanis.

Tsipras had pledged to meet any official complaint lodged against a government member with a confidence vote, according to his constitutional right.Discussion on the confidence vote will start on Wednesday at 6pm and concludes with a midnight vote on Friday.
Mitsotakis filed the censure against Polakis on the grounds of the latter’s recent comments on social media against a paraplegic politician of New Democracy.

Source: ANA-MPA

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