Mr. Manzos reminded that the morbid, as he characterized it, surveillance case of Nikos Androulakis “is not individual or partisan, but concerns the Republic and the citizens”
An interview with the Real FM radio station was granted by the Press Representative of PASOK-Movement of Change, Dimitris Manzos.
Mr. Manzos reminded that the morbid, as he characterized it, surveillance case of Nikos Androulakis “is not individual or partisan, but concerns the Republic and the citizens”, pointing out, at the same time, that “we insist on the need to clarify whether the cases predator and EYP are, through this diabolical coincidence, connected”.
“If there is anything a citizen expects in Greece in 2022, it is at least to be able to speak freely and safely and with natural speech both on his phone and in his electronic communications“, he underlined.
Asked if PASOK-Movement for Change is requesting an appeal to the polls, Mr. Manzos clarified that “we have been requesting elections for three months in the public debate. However, neither the Government nor SYRIZA can “tool” the issue for small-party exploitation. It’s one thing to obsessively ask for elections without being able to provoke them – it was proven with the motion of censure – and another thing to prove every day with your political work the inadequacy of the government and its danger to the institutions. Obviously a deeply institutional issue like this is a reason for the country to go to elections. After all, in 2019 one of the requests that led the previous Government to exit – as it is being led too – was the management of institutional issues”.
Regarding how the surveillance issue can be resolved, Dimitris Manzos argued that “the one axis is certainly the Justice, which makes targeted checks, focused on every act and request. However, in the case of N. Androulakis, precisely because he is a party leader and a member of the European Parliament, next to the judiciary, the Parliament as a political representative body should help with its own strengths and institutional tools in the search for the truth”.
“All this must be discussed in the Parliament, with full transparency and democratic dialogue, which is directed towards what the citizens want: to break the vicious cycle of surveillance, this black veil of privacy violation, which has covered our country and the exhibits internationally“, referring to the widespread interest of the international press in the surveillance case.
“We do ourselves a disservice as a country if we tolerate surveillance and wiretapping. If this is the new normal, sorry, we won’t take it“, concluded the Press Representative of PASOK-Movement of Change.
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