SYRIZA-PS calls on the government to stop “playing games with institutions and democracy” and to proceed with an “immediate and full investigation of the political scandal” in its announcement, commenting on the withdrawal of candidacy of Anna Michelle Asimakopoulou from the upcoming European elections, after the affair with the e-mails to expatriates and the uproar it caused.

The announcement of SYRIZA-PS in detail

“Two weeks have passed since the complaints of emigrants that they received campaign material from the ND MEP, Anna Michelle Asimakopoulou, without their consent. They were the same addresses that the emigrants had given to the Ministry of the Interior for the compilation of the electoral lists of the postal vote. Today we learn that Mrs. Asimakopoulou “decided” – was pushed – not to be a candidate in the European elections, “until the case is fully clarified”.

However, two weeks later there is extreme silence and the revelation of the truth is still a question. Not one and two, but four different investigations were launched after the complaints about the leakage of the personal data of the emigrants to the ND MEP: by the Athens Prosecutor’s Office, by the Personal Data Protection Authority, by the government, according to statements by Kyr himself Mitsotakis and from the Ministry of the Interior, which conducts an internal audit. What has Maximus discovered, but is not telling? What does Mrs. Kerameos, who was silent for four whole days after the revelation of the scandal, have to present?

The government must, at least for once, provide answers and finally bear the political cost. How did it leak and by whom? Why was the emigrants’ personal data not protected? Have there been other leaks and to where?

Within a moment, the government managed to cast shadows on the invariability of the electoral process with a postal vote and reaffirm that what it says about transparency and democracy, are just communicative “words of the wind”.

SYRIZA – Progressive Alliance immediately calls for a full investigation of the extremely serious political scandal, which arose under the responsibility of the government shortly before the European elections. Finally stop playing with the institutions and democracy!”