The prime minister has ordered that more light be shed on the case, with the government spokesman saying yesterday that “all answers will be given in due course”.
With the gaze fixed on tomorrow’s position of the prime minister on the case of phone surveillance are the commas, after the resignations of his close associate, Grigoris Dimitriadis and the commander of the EYP, Panagiotis Kontoleons.
After all, Kyriakos Mitsotakis has given a clear order to fall shed light on the caseby Yannis Economou to respond positively to PASOK’s proposal for establishment of an examination committee but also for the re-convergence of the Institutions and Transparency Committee of the Parliament, even inviting Nikos Androulakis to attend in person. “The government has from the outset been clearly in favor of a full investigation of the case, within the framework defined by the law, and the remediation of the consequences of the mishandling that has been demonstrated is already underway. All answers will be given in the proper way: with full institutional respect and with a view to safeguarding the public interest. At the end of the thorough investigation, the final political assessment will be made and it will be seen who is really consistent in the institutions – especially when he has the responsibility of governance – and defender of the truth“, the government representative stated emphatically yesterday, in response to SYRIZA which demanded the resignation of the prime minister, citing an unprecedented “democratic deviation”.
“We also consider it self-evident the establishment of an inquiry committee by this Parliament. However, we are also committed to conducting a preliminary investigation committee by the next Parliament with a progressive majority, so that those who knowingly violated the basic principles of the democratic functioning of the State will be held accountable to the Justice“, its announcement said Political Secretariat of SYRIZA.
In this context, the statement of Kyriakos Mitsotakis is also expected to be launched, sending message that it will not allow to hide any data and requesting the full clarification of the case and the establishment of an Inquiry Committee requested by Nikos Androulakis.
Yes, yesterday the president of PASOK-KINAL he mentioned that “it is unacceptable in a European democracy for it to be revealed that apart from the attempt to trap my mobile phone with the predator in September 2021, after the announcement of my candidacy, today we learn that the EYP which reports directly to the Prime Minister proceeded to monitor me during of the same period as the internal election procedures of PASOK. All this, Mr. Mitsotakis, is it by chance?”
According to a Kathimerini report, the former commander of the EYP, Panagiotis Kontoleon, allegedly claimed that the monitoring of Mr. Androulakis took place after request of Ukraine and Armenia. However, PASOK rejected this scenario in a statement.
“While the District Attorney invokes the law on procedural secrecy, the government leaks information about Armenians, Ukrainians and Chinese. They are refuted by the ambassador of Armenia but they continue to use dark and parastatal methods“, he noted.
However, it is underlined that the Prosecutor of the Supreme Court, Isidoros Dogiakos, is proceeding with the criminal preliminary investigation into the possible leakage of information contained in top secret government documents, which concern, as pointed out by the Prosecutor of the Supreme Court, “the process of lifting the confidentiality of communications on matters , which concern the national security of the country”.
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