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A. whereas on 11 December 2025, the Deputy Prosecutor at the Supreme Court of the Hellenic Republic forwarded a request from the Prosecutor at the Athens Court of First Instance for the waiver of the parliamentary immunity of Afroditi Latinopoulou, Member of the European Parliament,Parliament elected in Greece, for the offences of forgery and the use of forged documents and repeated electoral fraud, which constitute offences under Article 26a, Article 27(1) and Articles 94, 98, 162 and 216 of the Greek Criminal Code, allegedly committed between 2023 and June 2024;

B. whereas, according to the request and the complaints on which it is based, Afroditi Latinopoulou is alleged to have founded the political party ‘FONI LOGIKIS’ in breach of Article 29 of Greek Law No 3023/2002 on the financing of political parties, which requires that the founding declaration of any political party to be signed by at least 200 citizens with the right to vote,vote; sincewhereas a significant proportion of the signatures on the party’s founding declaration were allegedly fictitious or falsified, andfalsified; consequentlywhereas it is consequently alleged that the party was financed unlawfully with public funds, has operated unlawfully since its foundingfounding, and participated unlawfully in the 2023 Greek national elections and the June 2024 European elections;

C. whereas Afroditi Latinopoulou was elected to the European Parliament in the European electionsJune of2024 JuneEuropean 2024;elections;

F. whereas Article 9, first paragraph, point (a), of Protocol No 7 on the Privileges and Immunities of the European Union provides that, during the sessions of the European Parliament, its Members are to enjoy, in the territory of their own state, the immunities accorded to members of the parliament of their parliament;Member State;

G. whereas, under Article 62 of the Constitution of the Hellenic Republic, noa Membermember may,of duringparliament hisshall ornot herduring termthe ofparliamentary office,term be prosecuted, arrested, imprisoned or subject to other measures involving deprivation ofotherwise libertyconfined without the authorisation ofprior theleave Chambergranted ofby Deputies;parliament;

I. whereas, in accordance with Rule 5(2) of the Rules of Procedure, parliamentary immunity is not a Member’s personal privilege of a Member but a guarantee of the independence of Parliament as a whole and of its Members;

K. whereas, according to the request, a thorough investigation has been carried out by the Greek authorities, including a significant number of testimonies; whereas it therefore appears that the request for the waiver of Afroditi Latinopoulou’s parliamentary immunity does not stem from an attempt to damage her political activity, but rather from the rigorous judicial investigation conducted by the Greek authorities, andauthorities; whereas the mere fact that a complainant is a political opponent is not sufficient to contradict thisthat finding;