SYRIZA-PS and PASOK-KINAL refer to the change of Secretary General in the Ministry of Citizens Protection with announcements, commenting replacement for Konstantinos Tsouvalas.

“Nails” SYRIZA

SYRIZA said in a statement that “Mr. Tsouvalas bears the main responsibility for the catastrophic fire in Mati. Despite his dismissal by then Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, Mr. Mitsotakis promoted him to General Secretary of the Ministry of Citizens’ Protection immediately after the elections.”

“Today, all of a sudden – and after the wiretap revelations – he decided to overthrow someone he had been holding for three years, despite the obvious political costs that this had incurred for him. We believe that any suspicion that all of this has anything to do with the latest revelations about the Mitsotakis substate wiretapping is a figment of morbid imagination…” adds the official opposition party.

PASOK: Answers will be sought

For its part, PASOK notes that “the proposed replacement raises questions that will be answered.”

“Today the government announced that Mr Konstantinos Tsouvalas, leader of EL.AS. in the tragedy in Mati under the government of SYRIZA-ANEL and the general secretary of the Ministry of Citizens’ Protection under the government of ND replace him. Given previous reports that companies associated with the distribution of Predator spyware in Greece had contracts with EL.AS., this replacement raises questions that will be sought answers,” PASOK notes in his message – KINAL.

General secretaries in the ministries of civil protection and education are changing

In the morning, government spokesman Yiannis Oikonomou announced that the post of General Secretary of the Ministry of Citizens’ Protection, in which Mr. Konstantinos Tsouvalas has held until today, is being filled by retired General and Honorary Chief of the Greek Police Michael Karamalakis.

At the same time, the post of General Secretary of Higher Education of the Ministry of Education and Religion, where Mr. Apostolis Dimitropoulos has been serving so far, is held by the President of the Open University of Greece and the former Rector of the University of Crete. , Professor Odysseus-Ioannis Zoras.

In announcing the two changes, the spokesman said they were positions that had successfully completed their service cycle.