“We are fulfilling our duty towards the Democracy, the rule of law and the way we have chosen as free people to live in this country”, stressed the press representative of PASOK-Movement of Change, Dimitris Manzos on the SKAI TV station.
Asked about the identification with SYRIZA which the government attributes to PASOK, Mr. Manzos described it as “wrong and completely suggestive of the turmoil and panic in which the government is”, calling on it “to look at what we have said and done throughout the past period and, if he wants, for his own use, let him make the proper comparisons with SYRIZA”.
“We are making an institutional, very careful and with particular dignity and seriousness an effort to demonstrate the government’s nakedness, its inadequacy and its danger to the Democracy and the rule of law. Neither the Government nor the Official Opposition is allowed to “tool” the this case to draw parapolitical conclusions for minor party benefit. Nor are they going to convey the importance of the main stake: the attempted entrapment and surveillance of an MEP and leader of the third parliamentary party,” added Dimitris Manzos.
Regarding the criticism of the government for “instrumentalizing” the issue by Nikos Androulakis, the PASOK-Movement for Change Press Representative emphasized that “it is common worldwide for governments responsible for this type of surveillance to try to point to the side of the victim as the he was at fault and that he ultimately has the burden to come out to the citizens and tell them what he has done. Well, we say that we do not stand for party benefit. We do it because it is our minimum duty towards the Republic, the rule of law and the way we have chosen as free people to live in this country.”
The Press Representative recalled that at the first meeting of the Committee on Institutions and Transparency “the then commander of the EYP, who was demonstrably aware, but also the ministers who accompanied him did not tell the truth in the Parliament”. “Who are they asking him today to inform him? The Minister of State who was one of those who refused to tell the truth? What confidence can the leader of a faction that has been watched in its entirety have in these persons?” wonders Mr. Manzos, pointing out that “in practice, an entire faction was monitored, former prime ministers, former ministers, MPs, members and executives of the Movement!”.
The Spokesperson repeated the request of PASOK-Movement for Change that the case come again to the Institutions and Transparency Committee of the Parliament, as the questions “are not answered in the ear or in closed corridors and offices”.
In closing, Dimitris Manzos expressed the Movement’s fear that “the Committee on Institutions and Transparency will not be prioritized in time over the pre-scheduled debate in the Plenary. There is another perception of things by the Government. They prefer to go to a battle of impressions rather than substance and in providing the essential explanations and clarifications to the citizens. We insisted and will insist to the President of the Parliament that our request be accepted. And tomorrow morning we would go to the Institutions and Transparency Committee.”
Source: Capital
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