An application to strike down as unconstitutional a provision preventing the Communications Privacy Protection Authority (CPA) from informing those whose phones are monitored by the National Intelligence Service was filed today ahead of State Council President of the PASOK-Change Movement, Nikos Androulakis.

With his request for annulment, he insults ADAE’s denial of his request for information on surveillance of him by the National Intelligence Service, as stated in a press release from the PASOK-KINAL press office. In addition, they are asked to recognize that the provision of Law 4790/2021, which prohibits the disclosure of surveillance on grounds of national security, is contrary to the Constitution, the European Convention on Human Rights and the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights.

In his statement on the matter, Nikos Androulakis notes that “the provision of law 4790/2021 should have been repealed from the beginning of August, when my observation became known. The government had the opportunity to do so in the Legislative Content Act for the Reform of EYP’s Operating Structure, which it issued. He didn’t. He also had the opportunity to accept the corresponding amendment presented by PASOK Movement for Change on September 29, 2022. He dodged her again.”

And Androulakis’s statement concludes: “Finally, this aspect of the case also falls into the hands of justice, so that the validity of the challenged provision can be judged. The government used secrecy to hide and create islands of lawlessness in the functioning of the state, which modern European democracy does not understand.