The former Prime Minister, Giorgos Papandreou, launched a multifaceted attack on the ND government and the Prime Minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, speaking in the Parliament about the establishment of the commission of inquiry that will investigate the monitoring of the president of PASOK-Movement of Change, Nikos Androulakis.
“What will the prime minister say when he is with his EU counterparts and they ask him, why your own office was monitoring journalists and a rival politician – president of the opposition party?”, said Mr. Papandreou and characterized as a weak argument, that other countries use surveillance methods for national security issues. “It collapsed deafeningly, as the prime minister himself could not tell us in front of Parliament why Nikos Androulakis is a danger to our national security, and finally, why he was being monitored. Even the confession of error, if it was a mistake, is not an explanation of his because the mistake was made. Because apparently those who ordered the surveillance did not consider it a mistake,” the former prime minister stressed.
He also claimed that those who watched Nikos Androulakis “were the heart of the government system of the ND, the so-called ‘well-organized staff state’, who believed that they were doing the right thing. This is the essence of the recent wiretapping case. It is not just a random criminal act. It is evidence of a perception of the law of power, the arbitrary appropriation of the state and the resources of the Greek people,” he assessed.
In relation to claims by government officials that people care about accuracy and energy and not polls – that “few people care about wiretapping,” Mr. Papandreou said: “Sleep on that side. The Greek people, now that the reformist mask has fallen, will see that the wiretapping issue is about the general perception that you have of the management of the country, its economy, its money, and you will soon realize how much this perception will change. image”, he emphasized.
Mr. Papandreou accused the ND of how the wiretapping case highlights its age-old perception of power. “The facade of progressivism, democratic liberalism and ‘modern staff state’ has fallen,” lamented the former prime minister and continued:
“You found the bogeyman of SYRIZA, who really made a lot of mistakes, and you call any criticism of the ND government, any different opinion that exists, pro-SYRIZA.
It is a deeply authoritarian concept that wants every critical voice to be stigmatized, just as you used to stigmatize every different opinion of others, calling them traitors, anti-nationalists, miasmas, communists, a threat to the security of the country! Either you are with the evil SYRIZA, or you are with the perfect ND! There is no other version for you, because it suits you. For this reason you were soured, you were surprised that Mr. Venizelos and Mr. Alivizatos criticized you severely. Because, for better or worse, you had classified them in the anti-Syriza front and therefore in the pro-government space. And now, how do you justify it?”, he underlined.
As Mr. Papandreou explained, the criticism of PASOK-KINAL is done from the point of view of “the faction that promoted and defended the great democratic and social changes of the country over time. Simply, we leave them from the left!”.
George Papandreou did not leave SYRIZA unscathed and he said that, while “talking about revolutionary changes, under the Leninist guise of ‘controlling the joints of power’, they were absorbed by client structures and the most anachronistic notions of exercise and jurisdiction” of power […] They turned out to be imitators of right-wing practices.
As in others, with TV licenses, instrumentalization of justice, bills that undermined labor rights. Like you!”.
The former prime minister reiterated that PASOK-Movement of Change is called upon to play its historic role again. “To overturn perceptions of the state and looting of the state. To awaken, mobilize, rally all the progressive, productive and creative forces of the country. In an era that requires enormous changes, the transition to another model of development, quality, green, right, which can only be achieved with wider democratic participation and citizen trust in the institutions of the state. Something, of course, that the ND did not serve, in order to keep its control asphyxiated”.
“This is the bet for all democratic and progressive citizens and forces: to fight for the change of the country and not for the rule of power. For a Greece of law, for a Greece of values” concluded Mr. Papandreou.
Source: Capital
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