EVEA: Plan of fraud in elections denounced by Nikos Sofianos

Extensive ongoing plan denounces combination “The EVEA to its members” led by the candidate President Nikos Sofianos, one week before the elections in the Athens Chamber of Commerce and Industry ( ). This is the continuation of an organized plan of fraud that began with the illegal participation in the election of 20 members of the current Board of Directors, including Mr. Bratakos, who had completed at least 6 consecutive absences from the Board meetings should have already been declared as deductible, without the right to participate in the elections, as the law stipulates. In fact, some of them had to participate in meetings of the Board of Directors for over one year. An attempt is being made to alter the electoral result by distorting the elections through the “baptisation” of third parties, young officials of ONNED and other – business–related – persons as senior executives of public limited companies (AEs) in order to vote massively in the forthcoming election of the EBEA “Emissary”. In fact all of this was done massively and orchestrated through a relative party invitation. The combination “The EBEA to its members” has names of major business groups to be represented by ONNE Citizens and other ‘professional voters’, instead of members of the Board of Directors or their senior directors and reports: “As soon as we have received knowledge and evidence of the above, we have today submitted a Memorandum to the Electoral Commission of the EVOC where we are asking, among other things, to grant the final electoral list to ALL the combinations involved in the EPA elections in order to make legal and effective control of the voters by everyone in order to have a transparent, open electoral process. At the same time, we argued in “all directions” that we would exercise all our legal rights before criminal and administrative courts, the Transparency Authority and other supervisory authorities. Why? It is a matter of a Republic for the EBE which is a Legal Person of Public Law, i.e. a State body exercising public authority in order to achieve a specific public interest. It is a matter of respect for the candidates in our combination, who support our central authority for a chamber by the members and for its members, away from party clenching. And above all, it is a matter of honor and dignity for all members of the chamber who have expressed their intention to go to the polls, whether they vote for us or not. In order to ensure the Republic and the validity of the curatorial institution, we declare that we will inform all the members of the EVE of the above unacceptable and illegal actions, by drawing their attention, as illegal acts may be carried out without being ignored by third parties (indicative external accountants) who may have negative legal consequences for themselves. These actions will safeguard the democratic values, the prestige of the elections, the honour of the electors and the dignity of our members. In this context, during the holding of the voters at the EBEA (30/11, 1/12 and 2/12/2024) there will be a continuous presence of representatives of our Combination at the electoral center. We call on any member of the Chamber to take note of acts of fraud or to find that a person is voting in the EVC without the qualifications of the elector to immediately inform the Election Commission and our Combination to initiate the self-evident procedure. The head of our Association, Nikos Sofianos, actively supported the Prime Minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, in the New Democracy internal elections in 2016. However, all the candidates of our combination are holding an election struggle away from parties and political interference, for an independent Chamber that supports small and medium-sized enterprises, in order to return “The EVEA to its members”.