The criminal provisions of the Constitution and the rule of law

Last week Nikos Alivizatos, a professor emeritus of constitutional law at Athens University, wrote an article for Kathimerini in which he presented the reasons that led him to an interpretative proposal for Article 86 of the Greek Constitution (which grants the Parliament exclusive authority to prosecute government officials for criminal offenses) which was adopted by the government majority in the case of former minister Christos Triantopoulos’ role in the handling of the 2023 Tempe train crash disaster site.