“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 tenacity of Mr. Androulakis, the denial of this reality,” he concludes.

From the first moment the prime minister was informed of the legal connection to Mr. Androulaki’s phone, the government tried to inform the president of PASOK-KINAL, which he vehemently denies. pic.twitter.com/P1nqgf0IjI

— Yannis Oikonomou (@joikonomou) August 8, 2022

Androulakis’ statement

PASOK-KINAL President Nikos Androulakis, in a statement following Mitsotakis’s intervention, requests that the reason for his request from EYP be made public immediately.