His discovery is in a hurry parliamentas agreed by the government with the relevant Tsipras request. According to a government spokesman, Yannis Oikonomou“The government agrees to expedite the opening of Parliament on August 22 and defining that debate this week.”

“The government is serious about doing what is required at the institutional and parliamentary level to investigate the legal connection to Mr. Androulakis’ phone. The President of the Parliament informed the Government of the request of Mr. Tsipras to interrupt the summer holidays of the Parliament and to call for an extraordinary debate before the agenda on this issue in the plenary session. The government agrees to expedite the opening of Parliament on 22 August and the determination of these debates during this week. It is noted that the plenary session of the Parliament was originally scheduled to begin on August 31.

SYRIZA request

Previously President of SYRIZA-PS, Alexis Tsipras, submitted a request to interrupt the summer vacation of parliament and hold an extraordinary debate before the agenda on the issue of monitoring politicians and journalists.

Mitsotakis’ statement

Prime Minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, made a public announcement at noon on Monday to dispel the shadows that had been growing around the surveillance case. “Shadows are not allowed in our republic,” he stressed. Kyriakos Mitsotakis and mentioned a number of institutional changes to the National Intelligence Service (NIS) that the government would propose. He also stated that “although the connection to his cell phone was legal Nikos Androulakis“, was politically unacceptable and that he himself did not know about it. He added that he would never have allowed it if he had known.

He also noted that the process, with the approval of the Supreme Prosecutor, as stipulated by the decree passed in 2018 by the previous government, lasted three months and was automatically suspended, as required by law, a few days after the election of Mr. Androulakis. president of KINAL.

“Although everything was done legally, the National Intelligence Service underestimated the political underpinnings of this action. Formally, this was adequate, but politically unacceptable. This should not have happened, which would have caused a crack in the citizens’ trust in the National Security Service,” he said, emphasizing the EMP’s work to strengthen national security.

“The conduct of the case was incomplete, so the commander of the EMP was immediately removed from his post, as well as the secretary general of the prime minister’s office, who assumed objective political responsibility,” he stressed.

Finally, he said that he was open to any creative idea that included best practices from abroad and strengthened the accountability mechanisms of such an important agency for the country’s security, and stressed that he would discuss proposals that would increase transparency in the actions of the intelligence service without hindering it. sending. “Starting, of course, with the strictest restrictions in terms of legal ties. This must be done and will be done immediately with the passage of the Legislative Content Act.”

Andrulakis’ sharp reaction

PASOK-KINAL President Nikos Androulakis with his statement after the intervention of Mitsotakisrequests that the reason for his request be made public by EYP immediately.

“With today’s announcement, the Prime Minister again proved to be impeccable, adopting a ‘legal error’ narrative to justify a criminal act and a direct violation of the constitutional provision on parliamentary secrecy. He sought, not overtly, to direct events. It was clear that Mr. Mitsotakis feared that the former EMP governor would be caught off guard, while he placed objective political responsibility on Prime Minister Secretary General Grigoris Dimitriadis, downgrading it to the level of negligence,” he said incidentally.

And he added: “Mr. Mitsotakis, I ask you to immediately announce the reason for my observation by the EMP, which you even too brazenly call legitimate in violation of the confidentiality of my messages as an MEP and presidential candidate PASOK. – Movement for change. I won’t accept any cover. I will not allow Mr. Mitsotakis to simplify the key case of separation of powers in our country.” It’s not a personal issue, as I’ve said many times before. It’s a matter of democracy,” he added.

Government response

“From the first moment the prime minister was informed of the legal connection to Mr. Androulakis’s phone, the government has tried to inform the president of PASOK-KINAL, which he vehemently denies,” a government spokesman said.Yannis Oikonomouanswering President PASOK.

“In addition to the Investigative Committee and the Committee on Institutions and Transparency, which will also deal with this issue, Mr. Androulakis can always apply and receive answers in the proper institutional manner from the competent authorities. He stubbornly denies this option as well,” he notes, adding: “The connection to the telephone of Mr. Androulakis should not have happened politically, but its legitimacy is beyond doubt. If Mr. Androulakis and all those who pretend to doubt the legality want to be convinced of this, they need only refer to Law 2225/1994. There they will find everything about national security legal applications that do not exclude any subject from scope. They will also find the signatures of all those who recommended it.”

“Finally, with regard to Predator and other malware that has tracked or attempted to track dozens of politicians and public figures in Europe, we have made it clear that the Greek government did not purchase them, nor did any security agency in Greece use them. This is another remarkable persistence of Mr. Androulakis, the denial of this reality,” he concludes.