Mitsotakis: I ask again, was there surveillance of politicians during your days? Shame on you for saying that I watched ministers – Tsipras: Pledge that you will resign if it is proven that the EYP watched ministers and the leadership of the Army
By Penelope Galliou
In a climate of extreme polarization and tension, with sharp positions on both sides, mutual accusations and moving in a diametrically opposite strategy, Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Alexis Tsipras confronted each other from the steps of the Parliament regarding surveillance, during the discussion of the bill for the institutional shielding of the EYP.
With two parallel monologues, during which the prime minister and the leader of the official opposition “up and down” the tones, for the umpteenth time in about five months since the surveillance case broke out, the only point on which they agreed was that they disagree. They disagree both in substance and in the process of shielding and dealing with surveillance issues.
In fact, they stated their disagreement even more emphatically during their debriefings where the two politicians attacked and used personal characteristics against each other, with the prime minister to call Alexis Tsipras a “liar”. for what he attributes and attributes on the issue of surveillance to the government and personally to Kyriakos Mitsotakis himself and the president of SYRIZA, to return the accusations, characterizing the prime minister as “guilty” and “divisive”.
The basic canvas, however, on which the two strategies were developed were two specific questions. On the part of the prime minister to SYRIZA, if he has evidence for what he claims and attributes to the government for the surveillance and on the part of the official opposition leader to the prime minister, to answer with a “YES or NO or I DON’T KNOW” to whether he was monitored from the Ministry of Labor the Minister of Labor Kostis Hatzidakis and the Head of GEETHA Konstantinos Floros.
Earlier, during his introduction, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, despite the strict style against the accusations he has been receiving for months from SYRIZA and the other opposition parties, kept a soft tone and moved more institutionally in his position, emphasizing the initiatives undertaken by the government from the first time the issue broke out. He called the debated bill a “brave institutional response” noting that it establishes a new, clear framework for removing privacy that will become a guide across Europe.
Attempting to interpret the attitude of SYRIZA, Kyriakos Mitsotakis photographed an attempt to disorient public opinion in order to cover up his political dead ends, noting that while all countries are defending themselves against international inflation, some in Greece are manufacturing their own monitoring inflation, with the weekly serial, featuring many faces but never any evidence. He noticed that while the government is trying to make everyday life more tolerable, SYRIZA is setting up “the basket of misery and division” and connected SYRIZA’s strategy with the upcoming elections, wondering “I don’t know if all these conspiracy theories will help you survive the next day. It would be good if you don’t drag our democracy into the mud anymore,” he concluded.
On the contrary, the prologue of Alexis Tsipras was in higher tones targeting the prime minister from the beginning and accusing him of preventing the truth from coming to light. As proof of the opposite, he even called on the prime minister to vote for an amendment that would restore to the independent authority to ensure the privacy of communications the possibility of informing persons who are being monitored at the present time and not after 3 years.
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