D. Mantzos: The government should answer who, how and why considered N. Androulakis a national security suspect

“The government must answer who, how and why considered an MEP, leader candidate and already leader of the third parliamentary party, PASOK-Movement of Change, suspicious of national security? Who considered Nikos Androulakis a spy?”, the press representative said. of the Movement, Dimitris Manzos, speaking this morning on the television station ANT1.

“The government’s lapses in the management of this deep institutional crisis continue with the responsibility of the prime minister. With his statement yesterday, an unconstitutional choice was dubbed a “legal mistake” and the objective political responsibility is placed on a deputized official, the Secretary General of the prime minister, instead of for the Prime Minister to accept that he, as the head of the EYP, which he himself brought to his office in July 2019, has the objective political responsibility. These are two contradictions and two falsities with the Prime Minister’s stamp and seal,” noted Mr. Manzos and added:

“The government representative, in the same context, has engaged in a persistent effort to turn Nikos Androulakis from a victim of this case into a problem. It is almost being asked of Nikos Androulakis to come out and… apologize for bothering us in August with this story, to say… “thank you” to the EYP for monitoring him and finally have the courage to come out and say why the EYP monitored him”.

Afterwards, the press representative of PASOK-KINAL emphasized: “Mr. Androulakis, his director, his legal assistants, anyone in his office in PASOK and in the Parliament were not summoned by any EYP, by any state agency, to do what? Should Mr. Androulakis go to the EYP office, in closed corridors, in closed offices, to find out what? Something that is true today and despite the Legislative Content Act, that is, the EYP cannot inform the person being monitored. Gerapetritis, who tried to inform Mr. Androulakis by SMS, told us yesterday that the confidentiality of Law 2225/1994 is sacred and inviolable. He could have violated it that Friday when he told Mr. Androulakis “come let me inform you “?”.

“Let the government decide what exactly is the case, stop the nonsense and look at this serious case with due institutional seriousness – as we do. Also, something else extremely worrying has emerged since yesterday and we are waiting for the government to tell us what is true: The government representative told us – neither more nor less – that Mr. Androulakis’ file in the Parliament “may” have been destroyed. I will say it in plain Greek: Let no one in the government think that through this kind of tactics or other this kind of manipulation will obscure the case,” he emphasized.

“We are asking here and now for the convening of the Institutions and Transparency Committee. Tomorrow morning and before August 22, the Committee, which is the only forum of democracy where these answers can be given, should be convened and this time the government should say all true. Not to Nikos Androulakis, but to the citizens, to the Republic. You have read very carefully the statement of the President of the Republic, which points out that the case is not of one party, of one person, it is of all the citizens. So, the government’s answers must to be given to all citizens. Who, how and why considered an MEP, leader candidate and already leader of the third parliamentary party, PASOK-Movement for Change, suspect for national security? Who considered Nikos Androulakis a spy?”, concluded Mr. Manzos.