With a long statement, the President of PASOK-KINAL, Nikos Androulakislaunches a new attack on the government over his cell phone spying case.

In a stern tone, he declares that he will not receive information “by ear”, while indicating that he does not trust the ministers.

Noting that the government is trying to portray him as uncooperative, Mr. Androulakis attacks Kyriakos Mitsotakis, accusing him of EYP surveillance and Predator software, alleging that the government is avoiding revealing the details of the entire case.

The PASOK-KINAL leader demands that the entire file be forwarded immediately to the Committee on Institutions and Transparency and that the Office of Confidentiality of Communications and the Office of Personal Data Protection be informed in the most formal way of the reasons for the “illegal and unconstitutional monitoring” from EYP.

Finally, he emphasizes that the announcements of changes to the EYP are pretentious because, he says, the government passed the Legislative Content Act without consultation.

Full statement by Nikos Androulakis:

“If I were not a member of the European Parliament, today, together with me and the entire Greek people, we would not be aware of the semi-state methods used by the current government.

We would not know that in September 2021, shortly after the announcement of my candidacy for the presidency of PASOK, the EMP began to follow me, and a few days later an attempt was made to trap me with the Predator software.

What escapes public discussion is the fact that during this critical period for the democratic faction, the EMP, through my own monitoring, also controlled the entire party, former prime ministers, deputies and members of the party, who regularly talked to me about events.

So they caught not only me, but the entire Democratic Party.

With all this, a government spokesman and Mr. Mitsotakis’ few now defenders, even within his party, insist that it is my fault that “I don’t go and get information.”

Based on my experience of European Parliament missions in countries whose governments use this practice, the victim is often presented as an aggressor, uncommunicative, uncooperative and, ultimately, an enemy of national security. The goal is clear: to make such dark practices bearable in public opinion.

Mitsotakis, clean up the mess.

You illegally followed me with EYP.

You are dragging out the investigation of the spy “supership” Predator in Greece, with which an attempt was made to catch me and the victim of which was the journalist Thanasis Koukakis. The company allegedly linked to this has not yet been verified.

You evade the answer by the devilish coincidence that a few days after the start of observation of the EMP, an attack took place on me with the Predator.

You are avoiding making public the serious reason why I was a “national danger” at the time. This is because I was not in the previous 7 years as a member of the European Parliament and how does this “national danger” begin with my candidacy and cease to exist a few days after my election as President of the Movement?

Is this a diabolical coincidence or a complex plan for political extermination?

I make it clear in all tones that I am not going to enter into a verbal polemic with the authorities of the EMP, which acted contrary to the Constitution and laws.

I will not legitimize the illegal actions of the Mitsotakis government by engaging in an extra-institutional process that is neither legal nor ethical.

I have no confidence in ministers who claim that I am not cooperating and at the same time claim that my monitoring file could have been destroyed.

These are the same people who disrespected the Greek Parliament and misled the Greek people during the meeting of the Committee on Institutions and Transparency.

I’m not going to take the update by ear.

I will not tolerate “loss” or tampering with data.

I’m not going to play conspiracy theory about leaking information about foreign countries. You were refuted, exposed in front of the embassies of Armenia and Ukraine.

I request that the entire file be forwarded immediately to the Committee on Institutions and Transparency and that the Office of Communications Confidentiality and the Office of Personal Data Protection be informed in the most formal manner of the reasons for my illegal and unconstitutional monitoring. by EIP.

You actually proved how pretentious your statements were about changing the institutional framework of the EMP, introducing an Act of legislative content without consultation and maintaining the distorted status of belonging to the Prime Minister’s Office and the provision not to inform the person, under supervision for reasons of national security.

You tried, as evidenced by the facts, to hold me and a whole faction hostage in order to achieve your dark goals. Not only have you failed miserably in exposing the country internationally, but today this proud faction, along with much of the country’s democratic world, is showing you the door to exit power.”