Case events monitoring commented the president of PASOK-KINAL, Nikos Androulakisat an event in the “Greek world”.

Next to Mr. Androulakis was his legal team, consisting of Michalis Kalantzopoulos, Manolis Velegrakis and Christos Kaklamanis, as well as Professor Emeritus of Constitutional Law Nikos Alivisatos.

As the PASOK-KINAL leaker mentioned, EYP and Predator sync was revealed two months after the revelation of his surveillance.

“Behind the established centralized state of the New Democracy, there was a strong and organized semi-state, a semi-state arm. The prime minister’s responsibility cannot be swept away by references to “legal errors,” he said characteristically.

At the same time, according to him, journalistic investigations show by numbers and names that the predator was handled by the Greek police in the EYP building.

“The lists are published every day, but no one knows exactly what is true and what is not, who is slandering and who is being slandered, who is being blackmailed and who is being blackmailed,” said Mr. Androulakis, stressing that the only way is justice.

Regarding the North Dakota government’s EYP bill, Nikos Androulakis said it has some positive elements, but “doesn’t address the core of the system’s serious pathologies.”

“However, there is still no sense of responsibility for a case that severely damages the prestige of our institutions and discredits the country at the international level. This indicates that there is a three-year time limit for the controlled person to know that they were being monitored, not why they were being monitored, and also that the Human Rights Council, which must decide on disclosure information about the observation, a collegial body is separated, in which the verified governor and the EEM prosecutor will have the majority,” he said.

“Elections must be held in a clean landscape”

Mr. Androulakis offered PASOK-KINAL proposals for the EYP bill:

• repeal of the unconstitutional provision prohibiting the National Security Agency from informing individuals who are being monitored for reasons of national security, even retroactively,
• full justification for the cancellation of confidentiality in the relevant prosecutor’s decision, so that its legality can be verified,
• cutting off the EMP from the prime minister’s office,
• the final decision on monitoring on national security grounds must be made by the three-member Judicial Appeals Board and must be immediately reported with full details to the president of ADAE, so monitoring is essential.

The chairman of PASOK-KINAL asked the judiciary to expedite the procedures for clarifying the surveillance case so that “we know the whole truth before the election, and the prime minister can follow the only path left to him.”

In this context, he said that the elections should be held against a clear background, without shadows. “Three-year terms and retroactive effect for informing those who are being monitored do not make sense if we want to have a clear pre-election picture,” he stressed.

At this point, Mr. Androulakis repeated two of his proposals:

1. The Greek Parliament should take the initiative to control the mobile phones of all MPs and their assistants, as such a possibility exists in the European Parliament.
2. ADAE to check for links to persons appearing in publications.

“All these legislative proposals, as well as our practical proposals that the Greek Parliament can take advantage of, are aimed at holding elections in a calm political environment. So that every citizen knows what really happened in this case, which brought the attention of the whole world to our country, and thus chose, on the basis of meritocracy, which political force is the one that can guarantee strong institutions, strong transparency, strong democracy “, – he said. emphasized.

N. Alivisatos: It is impossible to go to the polls in this form

Commenting on the surveillance case, Distinguished Professor of Constitutional Law Nikos Alivisatos in his speech, he noted that it is necessary to protect the rights of a citizen.

“The Institutional Attorney, i.e. the State Attorney, is placed in the EYP with the Pavlopoulos New Democracy Act in 2008. You understand what that means. Put your hand on your heart and think about your personal experience. Someone next to you and you are together 24 hours a day. Eat together, talk about your family. Can he be independent of you? Can he seriously test you when they wink at him and say: “This is a very serious matter, and we have to watch the other person”? write down.

“However, there was also a second prosecutor, the Prosecutor of Appeal, which SYRIZA abolished by law in 2018. Why? Because then there was the prosecutor – unfortunately blessed – Mr. Liogas, who refused to sign the numerous connection requests that Mr. Rubatis sent him every day. Therefore, the second prosecutor was abolished, and now the only guarantee is the institutional one,” Nikos Alivisatos said.

Subsequently, Mr. Alivisatos recalled that “with the new Penal Code in 2019, eavesdropping on a criminal offense has become an offense in SYRIZA”, and spoke about the change in the legislative framework regarding the qualifications of the EMP governor.

“Thus, an unknown, with a term of service in a security company, became the commander of the EMP without any other qualifications. He was just a friend, if not of the prime minister, then of his inner circle,” he said characteristically.

In addition, a well-known constitutional expert highlighted the bias of the Anti-Terrorism Act, as the chairman of the Data Protection Authority did not have the right to access EYP and Anti-Terrorism files.

He stressed that the responsibility is timeless, but also cross-party. “However, the responsibility of the New Democracy with purely scientific criteria is even greater. What does the Prime Minister’s first statement mean? “I didn’t know. If I knew, this would not have happened.” So, if he had given the go-ahead, Andrulakis would have been followed normally. he noted.

Returning to the government’s oversight bill, Mr. Alivisatos touched on the issue of retroactive effect, characteristically saying, “Nothing is provided for retroactive effect for what has happened so far. You can’t go to the polls like this. There must be a deep shadow that the prime ministerial candidate is being watched for national security reasons. This is unthinkable. This cannot be in a European country.”

“My personal opinion is that we would feel great relief if the European body specialized in these matters, and not our friend in the Commission, i.e. the Venice Commission, were asked to issue an urgent opinion on a draft law under consideration, something might be done in two months,” concluded Mr. Alivisatos.