Mr. Kastanidis accused the government of trying to cover up the case of phone surveillance while he fully defended the actions of ADAE president Christos Rammos, stressing that he has a constitutional obligation to control the providers and to inform Parliament and party leaders.
“It would be a great act if the prime minister said I was wrong, I missed things and I apologize to the Greek people, it will not happen again and I myself along with all the opposition and all the parties, I will do what I can to correct things. It would be a great moral and political act.”
This was characteristically reported by PASOK-KINAL MP, Haris Kastanidis in the parliament, in the debate on the motion of no confidence against the government.
“A word hovers over the hall. Chip. And it wanders because it is missing from the room, the public debate, and from the responsibility of the government”, emphasized the PASOK-KINAL MP.
Mr. Kastanidis accused the government of trying to obscure instead of helping to illuminate the dark case of telephone surveillance while he fully defended the actions of ADAE president Christos Rammos stressing that he has a constitutional obligation to control the providers and inform parliament and leaders parties.
As Mr. Kastanidis said, Mr. Rammos received harsh attacks from the government majority, attributing them to ignorance and semi-knowledge.
“When the president of the Independent Authority for Ensuring the Privacy of Communications asked to inform the Committee on Institutions and Transparency, with a proposal addressed to the president of the parliament, the answer of the president of the Parliament was, no one comes uninvited to inform it.
And the next day, the government representative expressed the complaint because the president of ADAE did not inform the prime minister. Question. In the case of the prime minister, according to the statement of the president of the parliament, would he come uninvited to inform him?”
And Mr. Kastanidis continued:
“The president of the Independent Authority informed all party leaders in a single letter. If someone is considered uninvited when the controlling body is the Institutions and Transparency Committee of the Independent Authority, then they cannot appear uninvited in any other case.
Otherwise, the rule applies that he is obliged to be accountable to the Institutions Committee and he is also obliged to inform, without prior invitation, the leaders of parties, the president of the parliament, the minister of justice as defined by the article of the regulation.
The Authority for Ensuring the Privacy of Communications, received harsh attacks, these days from the side of the government majority.
I must and must restore certain things.
I understand ignorance, I detest ignorance. The president of ADAE, like the entire ADAE, from founding law 3115 of 2013, can ex officio or following a general complaint intervene in any public or private telephone communications provider and check files, equipment, facilities, when it is not a matter of national security. The President of the Authority himself is present.
Consequently, no one can raise the question why ADAE intervened in the providers, dusting off files, facilities, equipment to find the truth. It is her obligation from the constitution.”
“They said ADAE did not recognize the letter sent by its president to the president of the parliament and the leaders of the parties in its Plenary. It is clear what Law 3115 states.
ADAE operates collectively. But when it comes to the monitoring of ADAE’s decisions, its findings and for each of its decisions, its president is competent to act.
In this case there was a convergence of the Plenary and with a slim majority it was decided to investigate the providers and after the audit a conclusion was drawn up which was again discussed within the ADAE. “Well, its president as the only person had to inform”, pointed out Mr. Kastanidis and added addressing the government representative Yiannis Oikonomou.
“The question was raised whether the offense of breaching the privacy of communications was made a misdemeanor. Mr. Government representative, please inform your representatives that the article of the criminal code provides that when the violation of the privacy of communications endangers fundamental principles of the state – according to article 134 of the criminal code – it is a felony and the prescribed penalty is imprisonment. Don’t repeat things that move in the area of semi-knowledge”.
“I ask a simple question. Does anyone dispute the ADAE document that there were additional surveillances beyond what we were aware of? No one disputes this”, concluded Mr. Kastanidis.
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