“If anyone should resign for an obvious democratic bias, it is not the commander of the EMP or the prime minister, but Mr. Putin. Mitsotakis“, underlined in a statement by its Political Secretariat. SYRIZA PS after today’s meeting.

SYRIZA declares that it takes the establishment of a commission of inquiry by the current parliament for granted and at the same time commits itself to holding a preliminary commission of inquiry “by the next parliament with a progressive majority, so that those who knowingly violate the basic principles of the democratic functioning of the state will be held accountable in a court”.

In particular, the PG report notes that “the resignation of the closest associate of the Prime Minister G. Dimitriadis and the head of the EEM P. Kontoleon under the weight of the revelations of the Greek Watergate cannot and will not hide what all Greek men and women have realized: that the main person responsible for this unprecedented attempt at democratic digression is K. Mitsotakis himself.” As emphasized, “it was he who handed over the leadership of the EMP to Maximos, and in fact, as soon as he took power”, “he is the founder and head of the regime of power, working against transparency, accountability, against the democratic state itself.” “He is the politician responsible for paraEFP and the illegal Predator software surveillance scandal.”

“Greek Watergate has its own signature,” the announcement notes, emphasizing that “so if anyone has to resign for an obvious democratic bias, it will not be the commander of the EMP and not the prime minister, but Mr. Mitsotakis.” In the same context, PG adds that “in any democratic European country, such a grim case of surveillance involving at least one leader of a political party and a journalist would be unthinkable and would already lead to the resignation of the government.”

In addition, the official opposition reports that “in Greece, Mr. Mitsotakis did everything possible to hush up the scandal with illegal surveillance.” In particular, he notes that “both the representative of the government from the very beginning deliberately lied, and the ministers of state Gerapetritis and Pierakakis in the Committee on Institutions and Transparency” and “tried to hush it up through their friendly media.” And now, fearing their criminal liability, with the mass of government leaks, they come up with various ridiculous and contradictory excuses. He adds that “they even went so far as to involve even foreign agencies in the case of spying on Greek citizens. That, even if it were true, not only would not exonerate them, but would further aggravate their situation”, while he notes that “they also have the audacity to talk about the alleged “poisonous climate” on the part of those who brutally abuses the Democrats of everyday institutions”.

PG emphasizes in a statement that they are “torturing in vain” and that “everything will come to light and the truth will shine. The Greek people have the right to know the whole truth about one of the darkest stories of the last many years.”

He points out that “the main question for every citizen right now is what other politicians and journalists are the Mitsotakis regime following?” and emphasizes that “in order to answer this central question, and not how the truth has leaked out, we deem it necessary for the Supreme Court Prosecutor to immediately intervene in the EMR. In order to fully clarify its illegal activities and bring it into line with the Constitution and laws.” “We also take for granted the creation of a commission of inquiry by Parliament. However, we are also committed to holding a commission of inquiry in the next parliament with a progressive majority, so that those who knowingly violate the basic principles of the democratic functioning of the state are held accountable to justice,” he says.

In addition, SYRIZA also intends to amend the legislation regarding the EMP “with a view to removing him from the post of prime minister and transferring his supervision to a cross-party parliamentary committee in line with the standards of other European states.”

“SYRIZA-Progressive Alliance will fight by all appropriate legal and parliamentary means to fully expose the perpetrators, no matter how high they may be,” concludes the PG statement.