The changes in the institutional framework of the EYP and the national security systems in general will be the prime minister’s “weapons” in the debate that will take place in about two weeks from today.
By Antonis Anzoletou
Developments are rapid for the subject of monitoring with parties turning their sights on opening of Parliament on August 22. The latest information indicates that it will take place first the pre-day discussion, which Alexis Tsipras has requested (August 25 or 26 most likely) and then the Institutions and Transparency Committee will be convened.
The rift now between ND and PASOK is deep. This was evident from his statement yesterday Nikos Androulakis and his answer Yannis Economou. “I make it clear in all tones that I am not going to enter into a verbal debate with the authorities of the EYP, which operated despite the Constitution and the laws. I will not legitimize the illegal practices of the Mitsotakis government by participating in an extra-institutional process, which is neither legal nor ethical“.
In high tones came the answer of the government representative who pointed out the refusal of the head of Harilaou Trikoupis to be informed by the new commander of the EYP: “With his daily statements, Mr. Androulakis attempts to instrumentalize a very important issue. The government will not continue this sterile exchange of statements. The continuation will be given, as has already been announced in the Parliament“.
Executives of N.D. they estimate that SYRIZA after three years of polling cachexia “found a field to play on” and basically invests all his money in the issue of monitoring. They insist on emphasizing how the monitoring had the necessary approval of the competent prosecutor and that being an MEP was not an obstacle. They choose to move quickly and the proof, as emphasized by the camp of Herodos Atticus, is the immediate publication of the Act of Legislative Content that the prime minister had announced. The two prosecutors are now restored to the supervision of the National Intelligence Service (which was abolished by SYRIZA in 2018) and the Institutions and Transparency Committee of the Parliament establishes for the first time a hearing of the Commander of the EYP.
The changes in the institutional framework of the EYP’s operation and the national security systems in general will be the prime minister’s “weapons” in the debate that will take place in about two weeks from today. The resignations that took place, and the initiation of all institutional and parliamentary procedures, showed that the government is not hiding.
Alexis Tsipras with his intervention yesterday in favor of the president of PASOK, he made it clear to the majority that will attempt to form a front in order to squeeze her. “The request of Nikos Androulakis to provide the Committee on Institutions and Transparency with the full file of his monitoring is a self-evident democratic obligation for the government“, he said characteristically.
As for the proposal for establishment of a Commission of Inquiry both SYRIZA and KINAL follow separate tactics. The only common point is that both parties are waiting for the developments in the Parliament to see how they will move. That is, if they will file separate motions or if the questions they wish to raise coincide. In order, they are waiting for the Conference of Presidents to meet, for the pre-day debate to be held (there the correlations of forces will be reflected) and of course for the meeting of the Institutions and Transparency Committee to take place. There is no parliamentary force that will not agree to the establishment of a Commission of Inquiry.
However, before the debate in the Parliament on the surveillance opens, questions are constantly entering the public debate. Whether it is a purely political or legal issue or even whether the legality of the link depends on the merits of the case. The deposit cycle that opens is awaited with great interest. The journalist Tasos Telloglou will be the first to will testify today to the Prosecutor of the Supreme Court, Isidoros Dogiako. The investigation carried out by the head of the Supreme Court’s Prosecutor’s Office refers to how it became known that specific persons were being monitored by the EYP, while a separate investigation is being conducted by prosecutors at the First Instance Prosecutor’s Office for the substance of the complaints.
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