ND leader says Polakis' innuendos are 'undermining democratic institutions'

Main opposition leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Thursday accusations levelled by Alternate Health Minister Pavlos Polakis against judicial officials handling two major corruption cases are an "unprecedented undermining" of democratic institutions, and criticized Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras for not disciplining the minister.

"Everything that is happening in the past few days constitute an unprecedented undermining of our democratic institutions and threaten directly the separation of powers in our country," he said in a statement.

"It can not be tolerated in a state governed by the rule of law, to have an acting minister accuse named prosecutors and investigative magistrates that they not fulfill their mission, in the way he would have liked, and have the prime minister protect him," he added.

Earlier on Thursday, Greece's union of judges and...