Manzos on SKAI for monitoring: The government is in a panic

The press representative of PASOK-Movement for Change, Dimitris Manzosspeaking today to and asked about the identification with him SYRIZAwhich the government attributes to PASOK-KINAL, said that it is “incorrect and completely indicative of the turmoil and panic in which the government is”, calling on it to “look at what we have said and done throughout the past period and, if wants, for its own use, to make the proper comparisons with SYRIZA”.

“We are making an institutional, very careful and with particular dignity and seriousness an effort to demonstrate the nakedness of the government, its inadequacy and its danger to the Democracy and the rule of law. Neither the government nor the official opposition is allowed to “instrumentize” this case in order to draw parapolitical conclusions for a small party’s benefit. Nor are they going to detract from the main stake: the attempted entrapment and surveillance of an MEP and leader of the third parliamentary party“, he added.

Regarding the censure of the government for “tooling” the issue by Nikos Androulakisthe press representative of PASOK-Movement for Change emphasized that “it is common worldwide for governments responsible for such surveillance to try to point to the victim as the culprit and that he ultimately has the burden to come out to the citizens and tell them what he has done. Well, we say that we do not stand for party benefit. We do it because it is our least duty towards Democracy, the rule of law and the way we have chosen as free people to live in this country».

D. Manzos recalled that at the first meeting of the Institutions and Transparency Committee “the then commander of the EYP, who was demonstrably aware, but also the ministers who accompanied him did not tell the truth in the Parliament».

“Who are asking him today to inform him? The Minister of State who was one of those who refused to tell the truth? What trust can the leader of a faction that was monitored in its entirety have towards these persons?”, was the question he raised, pointing out that “in practice, an entire faction was monitored, former prime ministers, former ministers, parliamentarians, members and executives of the Movement».

The press representative repeated the request of PASOK-Movement for Change that the case should come again to the Institutions and Transparency Committee of the Parliament, as the questions “are not answered in the ear or in closed corridors and offices”.

D. Manzos expressed the Movement’s fear that the Committee on Institutions and Transparency will not be prioritized in terms of time from the agenda-setting debate in the Plenary.

“There is another take on things by the government. They prefer to go to a battle of impressions rather than the substance and providing the essential explanations and clarifications to the citizens. We insisted and will insist to the Speaker of the Parliament that our request be accepted. And tomorrow morning we would go to the Institutions and Transparency Committee“, he emphasized at the end of his interview.

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