In a climate of polarization or before the day for the follow-ups. As a fuse for an explosive meeting, the whole surrounding atmosphere around the case and the ongoing confrontations between the government and the opposition have worked.
By Penelope Galliou
Perhaps one of the fiercest political conflicts of the ND government is expected to unfold today in the Parliament during discussion of political leaders for the case of monitoring, with the mercury of the confrontation soaring. As a fuse for an explosive session, the whole surrounding atmosphere around the case and the ongoing confrontations between the government and the opposition parties have worked.
The government having given special importance from the first moment of the revelations to the institutional route, she is not willing to take a defensive stance but according to sources in the Maximos Palace, the prime minister is expected to go on the counterattack.
Since, according to information, the Kyriakos Mitsotakis present the context in which the government is already moving and will move to clarify the case, it is expected that during his speech in Parliament he will “place” the subject of surveillance on the right footing, – as they say – rejecting conspiracies and speculations, focusing strictly and with clarity on the institutional interventions that should be made without jeopardizing the operation of a service critical to national security and with the aim of correcting perennial problems.
The strategy of Megaros Maximos is expected to move along three axes, with the prime minister in principle strictly reminding that he was the one who opened the issue, with the revelations about the surveillance of the leader of PASOK-KINAL in early August, accepting the resignations of both the former commander of the EYP Panagiotis Kontoleontos as well as his close partner Grigori Dimitriadis.
The second axis in the parliamentary position of Kyriakos Mitsotakis is expected to concern the institutional interventions which the government is focusing on and is already promoting for the restructuring and further armoring of the EYP, so that in the future it will not be possible to monitor politicians or journalists so easily.
The third axis will concern the political and minor party – as government sources commented – management of the case by the opposition parties and especially by SYRIZA. In fact, it is not excluded, according to information, that the prime minister will call the other political leaders to respond to the possibility that the EYP is prohibited by law from monitoring politicians.
In any case, however, government officials report that the prime minister will avoid following the anti-institutional path taken by the official opposition, considering that the issue of the secret services does not lend itself to small-party exploitation and political frivolity.
The prime minister is also not excluded during the discussion to hide “aces” up his sleeve of what will “throw” them from the floor of the Parliament while he will insist on the need, alongside the investigation of the Androulakis case, to investigate the way the security services operate over time, in order to deal with chronic pathologies and formulate improvement proposals for the future as these are services that play an important role in protecting national security, strictly observing the rules of the rule of law.
Group fire from the opposition
In pursuit of targeting the prime minister himselfas SYRIZA has already done, Alexis Tsipras in today’s debate in the Parliament he will seek to show that Kyriakos Mitsotakis has no convincing answers to the case of surveillance. In fact, according to information, insisting on raising questions about whether there are other Greek politicians and journalists who are being monitored, whether the predator malware has been procured by the EYP, while he will also focus on the selection of the former EYP commander Panagiotis Kontoleon, he has just taken over the ND governance. What Koumundourou has already prescribed with her attitude and the positions of her executives is that the leader of SYRIZA will raise the tone of the confrontation with the prime minister, calling for the resignation of the government and the holding of elections.
In the oxymoronic position will be the Nikos Androulakiswho, despite being the protagonist of the case, will not participate as he is not a member of parliament and will be represented by the head of the KO Michalis Katrinis. However, Nikos Androulakis gave the mark of his intentions during the PASOK-KINAL KO meeting a few hours before the political leaders’ debate, launching a fierce attack on the prime minister, accusing the government of having set up a trap and calling on him today from the floor of the Parliament to publicly explain why the EYP was following him.
The leaders of the other opposition parties are also expected to attribute responsibilities to the prime minister, while the Prime Minister of the KKE Dimitris Koutsoubas will also make special reference to the meetings – wiretapping that took place in 2016 at the KE headquarters in Perissos.
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