Mantzos for surveillance: The government must answer who, how and why considered Androulakis a spy

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“The government’s lapses in the management of this deep institutional crisis continue under the prime minister’s responsibility,” said the PASOK-KINAL press representative

“The government must answer who, how and why considered a member of the European Parliament, candidate for leader and already leader of the third parliamentary party, PASOK-Movement of Change, suspicious of national security? Who considered him Nikos Androulakis a spy?”, said the spokesperson of the Movement, Dimitris Manzosspeaking this morning to the television station ANT1.

The government’s lapses in the management of this deep institutional crisis continue under the prime minister’s responsibility. With his statement yesterday, an unconstitutional choice was dubbed a “legal mistake” and the objective political responsibility is assigned to a deputized official, the Prime Minister’s Secretary General, instead of the Prime Minister accepting that he, as head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, who himself brought the July 2019 in his office, he has the objective political responsibility. These are two contradictions and two backbitings with the Prime Minister’s stamp and seal“, noted Mr. Manzos and added:

The government representative, in the same context, has indulged in a persistent effort to turn Nikos Androulakis from a victim of this case into a problem. Nikos Androulakis is almost asked to come out to… apologize for bothering us with this story in Augustiatika, to say… “thank you” to EYP for monitoring him and finally have the courage to come out and say why EYP monitored him».

Afterwards, the press representative of PASOK-KINAL emphasized: “Mr. Androulakis, his director, his legal representatives, anyone in his office at PASOK and in the Parliament were not summoned by any Ministry of Internal Affairs, by any state agency, to do what? Should Mr. Androulakis go to the EYP office, in closed corridors, in closed offices, to find out what? Something that today and despite the Legislative Content Act is valid, that is, the EYP cannot inform the monitored person. Mr. Gerapetritis, who tried to inform Mr. Androulakis by SMS, told us yesterday that the confidentiality of Law 2225/1994 is sacred and inviolable. Could he violate it that Friday when he said to Mr. Androulakis “come let me inform you”?».

Let the government decide what exactly is true, stop the nonsense and look at this serious case with due institutional seriousness – as we do. Also, something else extremely worrying has emerged since yesterday and we are waiting for the government to tell us what is true: The government representative told us – neither more nor less – that Mr. Androulakis’ file in the Parliament “may” have been destroyed. I will say it in plain Greek: Do not let anyone in the government think that through such tactics or other manipulations they will obscure the case“, he underlined.

We request here and now the convening of the Institutions and Transparency Committee. Tomorrow morning and before the 22nd of August, the Commission should be convened which is the only forum of democracy where these answers can be given and this time the government should tell the whole truth. Not to Nikos Androulakis, but to the citizens, to the Republic. You read very carefully the statement of the President of the Republic, which points out that the case is not one party’s, one person’s, it is all citizens’. Therefore, the government’s answers must be given to all citizens. Who, how and why considered an MEP, leader candidate and already leader of the third parliamentary party, PASOK-Movement of Change, suspect for national security? Who considered Nikos Androulakis a spy?“, concluded Mr. Manzos.

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