As part of the interventions at the political, institutional and practical levels that the Prime Minister described yesterday Kyriakos Mitsotakisthe government will immediately try to regain the initiative of the movements and limit the influence case tracking with AIP mobile phone of the President PASOK – KINAL Nikos Androulakis. “Shadows are unacceptable in a democracy,” the prime minister said. His interference yesterday puts an end to any scenarios of forcing elections. From Maximos Palace declare that they firmly support the position of “everyone in the world.” So his new leadership EYP it will be asked, among other things, to investigate whether third parties use illegal tracking software such as Predator to answer questions about centers operating out of control. They also assure that there were no collusions of other politicians from the EPM. At the same time, with regard to SYRIZA’s request for the immediate opening of parliament for a pre-day debate on this issue, the government spokesman Yannis Oikonomou said the government had agreed to expedite the opening of parliament on August 22 and schedule a debate this week. Mr. Economou also responded to Nikos Androulakis, who asked for the reason for his observation, stating that the government has been trying to inform the PASOK president from the first moment, but he is refusing.

The government’s main line of defense against opposition and criticism is that everything that has been done has been done legally. That the political conduct of business can be controlled, and illegal surveillance is out of the question. This was a failure, but all necessary steps will be taken to avoid similar failures in the future and to ensure that the institutional armor is strengthened to prevent their recurrence. “I didn’t know about it and obviously I would never have let it happen,” Mr. Mitsotakis said, stressing that “although everything was done legally, National Intelligence Service underestimated the political component of this particular action” and added that “it is for this reason that the commander of the EMP was immediately removed. At the same time, the Secretary General of the Prime Minister’s Office assumed objective political responsibility.

Direct government intervention will be through legislation that will provide that in order to activate the connection order from EYP, in addition to the prosecutor who oversees the service, the prosecutor of appeals must also give approval. The provision was in effect until 2018, when it was abolished by a decision of the SYRIZA government, government sources say. “The case revealed the absence of additional “filters” in the work of the special services. Because the surveillance of a political figure certainly requires guarantees that go beyond the judgment of even an experienced and competent judicial officer,” Mr. Mitsotakis stressed in this regard.

Opening of Parliament on the 22nd and debates on the Andrulaki case. The PASOK chairman refuses to be informed, Maksim informs.

At the second level, after appropriate consultation, an integrated institutional framework will be presented to ensure transparency in the work of EYP with safeguards.

About his convocation Committee on Institutions and Transparency, from the government declare that there is no need to open Parliament, that the President of the House can convene a committee at any time, and that their position remains in favor of immediate convocation. He is, of course, preceded by the inauguration of the new EMP commander and his briefing on all aspects of the case so that he can brief the members of the committee.

With regard to the establishment of a commission of inquiry, the government reiterates that it is in favor of it and will wait for the proposal to be formulated by the opposition to decide whether to make its own proposal. On the table is the idea that the investigation should also cover the SYRIZA period. However, as the Prime Minister made clear in his speech yesterday, protecting the EMP from attempts to discredit it horizontally remains an important priority. As Mr. Mitsotakis noted, “there are many enemies of the motherland who are hiding and would like a weak EYP.” He added that the contribution of the service is important and is manifested in the readiness of our country to face challenges such as Evros or the Aegean Sea, as well as in the daily fight against terrorism and crime.

New structure for EYP

The Prime Minister referred to the “chronological pathologies of the intelligence service” and addressed an indirect invitation to the political forces to submit proposals for a structure that would increase the transparency of its work. “Personally, I am open to any creative idea that includes best practices from abroad and will strengthen the accountability mechanisms of such a vital service for the country’s security,” he stressed.

Mr. Mitsotakis presented a framework of four areas of change that the government will propose and they are:

• Strengthening the accountability of the Ministry of the Interior and oversight of the Parliament through the Committee on Institutions and Transparency.
• Strengthening the role of the National Security Council for better use of information and EYP.
• Protection of the framework of legal connections of politicians.
• Changes to EYP to increase internal control, transparency, extroversion and training of their human resources.

“I will be happy to discuss proposals that will increase the transparency of the work of our special services, without interfering, of course, with their mission. Starting, of course, with the strictest restrictions in terms of legal ties,” Mr. Mitsotakis stressed. Government sources indicated that the process of forming a new organizational structure based on the directions presented by Mr. Mitsotakis will be intensified in the near future. The government is concretizing its proposals and will look to the opposition parties for help in this effort, as it has been reported that shortcomings have been identified that need to be addressed. All the more so, they add, at a time when an increasingly demanding international security challenge environment is emerging, against which there is no room for discrediting the intelligence service.