As Alexis Tsipras stated in his letter to the Speaker of the Parliament “the political life of the country is experiencing one of its most critical moments in the post-political period and the Prime Minister, taking advantage of the fact that we are in the summer vacation period, tried to avoid the necessary process of extensive and public accountability in Parliament”.
Telephone communication mwith the President of the Hellenic ParliamentKonstantinos Tasoula he had a while ago Alexis Tsipras in order to inform him that filed a letter, with which he asks the interruption of the Parliament’s summer vacation and the definition extraordinary debate before the agenda in the Plenary about her subject monitoring politicians and journalists from the office under the Prime Minister EYP.
As Alexis Tsipras mentioned in his letter to Mr. Tassoulas “the political life of the country is experiencing one of its most critical moments in the post-political period and the Prime Minister, taking advantage of the fact that we are in the summer vacation period, tried to avoid the necessary process of extensive and public accountability in the place that is its natural environment, i.e. in the Parliament and chose deliver a sermon by means of a videotaped announcement with a prepared text”.
He asked Mr. Tasoula to respond to his self-evident democratic duty to facilitate the exercise of all powers of legislation and parliamentary control as soon as possible and, as an emergency, to set a daily debate.
For SYRIZA – Progressive Alliance must “to immediately shed light on what has happened with the highest dialogic process of critical review and debate in the Plenary of the Parliament“.
Mr. Tsipras’ letter to Konstantinos Tassoulas in detail
“Subject: Request to hold a pre-agenda debate in Parliament (Article 143 of the Civil Code) on the surveillance by the Prime Minister’s Office of the Prime Minister of his political opponents and journalists.
Dear Mr. President,
The government on its rise to power imposed a regime in every way to reproduce and maintain its power. For this purpose, she did not hesitate to make unworthy appointments of “mothers”, scandalous waste of public funds, silencing and manipulation of the mass media, and even attempts to prosecute her political opponents with special courts and by erasing their views from the public sphere .
However, it was recently revealed that he did not even hesitate to set up and keep in operation a highly effective parastatal surveillance cell within the Maximos Palace itself.
The Prime Minister of the country, immediately after his election, having obviously calculated his next steps, brought the National Intelligence Service under his direct administrative control. In the position of head, he appointed a personal friend of his, who for his sake lowered the cognitive proficiency requirements for the position of Commander of the service, changing the relevant law. Subsequently, he allowed his immediate subordinates, the Commander of the EYP and the General Secretary of the Prime Minister, to utilize this sensitive service for other purposes. A journalist as well as the President of PASOK-KINAL are two of those he has
it has already been proven with certainty that they were monitored sometimes by the EYP with their privacy removed and sometimes through the predator spy mechanism – which the government claims it does not possess, but the “coincidences” of targets and times of monitoring indicate otherwise. The fact that there was a conscious surveillance plan without it being noticed is also proven by the extraordinary legislation of Article 87 of Law 4790/2021, so that no one could – and even retroactively – be informed about the surveillance they had undergone.
The government even after the complaints, despite having all the necessary evidence and the time to know exactly what had happened, misled the public opinion and leaked lies in every institutional or non-institutional process. And she didn’t just leak lies, she humiliated the country and its relations with third countries that she portrayed as having requested the surveillance of the President of PASOK-KINAL or, even worse, she unleashed her “trolls” on the Internet to spread blackmail in relation to with the victims of her surveillance.
Finally, just today, the Prime Minister in his public speech stated in short that the one who will protect us from his arbitrariness will be himself and that he will do this through legislative initiatives that he will again take with an Act of Legislative Content. He is so afraid of the process of live accountability in the Parliament that he chooses to hide behind pre-formulated texts, videotaped announcements and proceed with legislation with the Parliament absent.
For the above reasons and due to the fact that these are serious issues of general interest, we request that a debate be held immediately before the order of the day in the Parliament (Article 143 of the Civil Code) on the subject of surveillance of political opponents and journalists by the Prime Minister’s Office of the Prime Minister.
Yours sincerely
The Leader of the Official Opposition
Alexis Tsipras”
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