Three draft laws on racism

The parliamentary groups of PASOK and the Democratic Left finally submitted together a draft law that PASOK had prepared for dealing with racist phenomena.

ND is preparing another draft law on racism while SYRIZA has a third proposal.

ND’s proposal will include the criminalization of denying the Holocaust and harsher penalties for racist attacks.

PASOK - DIMAR

As the statement says, "the PASOK and DIMAR parliamentary groups submitted a joint proposal for a law on combating racism and xenophobia in order for it to be discussed as soon as possible in the relevant commission in parliament."

It was preceded by the abortive meeting of political leaders on Monday after which there was no agreement for filing the antiracism bill, prepared by the Ministry of Justice.

SYRIZA is thinking to file his antiracist

SYRIZA expressed their intention to submit their own draft bill for Greece’s antiracist legislative framework.

They have already changed directions about this issue, when asking to bring the bill of the Ministry of Justice to the Greek parliament, as it was basically the same framework, formed earlier by PASOK government ministers and which SYRIZA had rejected.

Abandoning Roupakiotis’ bill by the government, exempts SYRIZA quite a lot from the obligation to follow PASOK and DIMAR, although it is still unknown what it will do if the text reaches the parliament, as a common bill proposal from both parties.