Georgiadis and Konstantopoulou clash in parliament over Israel event in Athens

The question in parliament

On Monday, 26 October 2026, Zoe Konstantopoulou, president of Plefsi Eleftherias, put a topical question to Health Minister Adonis Georgiadis in the Greek parliament. It concerned his attendance at an event organised by the Israel Allies Foundation at the Athenian Club on 12 October 2026. Konstantopoulou described the gathering as a secret meeting and said Israel's ambassador and Israel's technology minister were present. She asked whether Georgiadis had attended in his ministerial capacity and whether he had informed the prime minister and the speaker of parliament.

Georgiadis rejects the secrecy claim

Georgiadis denied that the meeting was secret. He argued that an event in central Athens with more than 200 guests, including politicians, businesspeople and journalists, could not be concealed, and that only a sick mind could think otherwise. He said he does not post everything he does on social media, and that as an MP he needed no permission from the prime minister or the speaker to attend. He suggested Konstantopoulou might be confusing him with Pavlos Christidis, a PASOK MP who was also present at the Athenian Club.

He opened his reply with a direct denial:

“I did not go to any secret meeting. I support Greece's strategic relationship with Israel.”

Strategic ties and the Netanyahu warrant

Georgiadis dated the strategic relationship to 2010, when George Papandreou was prime minister and Greece held its first meeting with Benjamin Netanyahu. He said the relationship continued under the 2012 to 2014 tripartite coalition of Antonis Samaras, Evangelos Venizelos and Fotis Kouvelis, then under Alexis Tsipras from 2015 to 2019, and still continues under Kyriakos Mitsotakis. He also said Israel officially supports Greece on all its national rights, condemns the Turkish occupation of Cyprus and the Turkish-Libyan memorandum, and backs the electricity link with Cyprus. Georgiadis cited the arrest warrant against Netanyahu, which he said was issued by an International Criminal Court prosecutor, and invoked the presumption of innocence.

Personal attacks escalate

Konstantopoulou said she was treating Georgiadis criminally in this topical question. Her words were:

“I am treating you criminally in this topical question, and you should take that into account.”

Georgiadis replied by asking whether she was threatening him with prison from the parliament floor and whether she considered herself the national prosecutor. He then asked whether, if he was a fascist, she was not a traitor, and said she did not deserve the title of traitor. In her second reply, Konstantopoulou called him a fascist, a far-right figure and a Holocaust denier, and accused him of contradictions. Georgiadis closed by calling her a fascist who, in his words, disregards Israel's history and the Holocaust, and he attacked her record as parliament speaker.

Netanyahu and the open questions

Konstantopoulou said she would make sure Netanyahu is held accountable for war crimes and crimes against humanity:

“I will make sure Netanyahu is held accountable for war crimes and crimes against humanity.”

Georgiadis said he had not informed the prime minister or the speaker of his attendance and argued he did not need their approval. The questions Konstantopoulou raised about his ministerial capacity and the nature of the meeting were answered only in the sense that each side maintained its position. The exchange, reported by several Greek outlets on 26 October 2026, ended with both sides trading personal insults rather than any agreed account of what was discussed at the 12 October gathering.