SYRIZA supports PASOK’s inquiry proposal – heavy fire against K. Mitsotakis

LAST UPDATE: 15.01

By Niki Zorba

The meeting of Alexis Tsipras with the executive secretariat of SYRIZA, which started at 10 in the morning, ended shortly after the start of the Parliamentary Conference.

In fact, according to information, the close associates of the SYRIZA president who participate in the party’s Executive Secretariat, as formed after the May conference, held a meeting leaving telephone devices outside the room.

As expected, SYRIZA will support the proposal of the commission of inquiry submitted earlier by PASOK, unleashing heavy fire against the prime minister.

According to the same information, the assessment, as expressed during today’s meeting under Mr. Tsipras, is that elections are expected, as the revelations so far are only the “tip of the iceberg”.

This was also conveyed by the press representativeNasos Iliopoulos, shortly before in his interview:

“Therefore, we expect concrete answers from Mr. Mitsotakis in the Parliament. Which services hired the Predator malware? Who are the political figures being monitored – last week Kathimerini wrote about seven political figures. What are the reasons that led to the monitoring of Mr. Androulakis and Mr. Koukakis?”.

He even added that “Mr. Mitsotakis should resign and call elections, this would be normal for any normal European country”.

The official opposition, however, is not going to vote for the appointment of Mr. Demiris to the EYP, as “It is not a cross-party choice, it is the choice of Mitsotakis who is the mastermind of the scandal and is apparently going with the order to cover up and not clarify the scandal of surveillance, illegal and legal “.

SYRIZA also raises objections “about the manipulations in the field of the judicial investigation by the Prosecutor of the Supreme Court, as it seems that he is not investigating the major surveillance scandal and the Predator but instead how the circuit was revealed and how the information about the watch”.

What did SYRIZA decide?

According to party sources, the party’s position was decided in the executive secretariat which provides:

1. SYRIZA PS remains steadfast in what it has stated since the first day of the revelations. He has tabled a proposal to hold a pre-day Order of Debate in Parliament at the level of Political Leaders, as well as requesting the immediate convening of the Institutions and Transparency Committee, in order to summon the directly involved Dimitriadis, Kontoleon, and the supervising prosecutor of the EYP, Mrs. Vlachou.

2. SYRIZA PS will vote in favor of the proposal submitted today by PASOK – KINAL for the establishment of an inquiry committee.

3. SYRIZA PS estimates that the absolute responsibility, political and not only, for the surveillance scandal, lies with Mr. Mitsotakis himself. The developments confirm that we are faced with a staff parastatal headed by Mr. Mitsotakis himself.
The Prime Minister is lying that he did not know. Since his first move in 2019 was to take the EYP directly to the prime minister’s office, and place his nephew and closest associate in order to organize the circuit of illegal surveillance. He changed the law to be able to put his own man in the EYP, who did not meet the criteria. And later, he brought an amendment following the request of the monitored journalist, Mr. Koukakis, to the ADAE, so that he, as well as anyone else who appealed to the Independent Authority, could not be informed about the monitoring. And then, the government rejected the amendment tabled by SYRIZA PS to cancel the legislative cover-up of surveillance, so that ADAE could inform citizens that they were being monitored, as was the case until the Mitsotakis amendment.

4. SYRIZA estimates that Mr. Mitsotakis is trying to gain time, erase the traces of surveillance, illegal and legal, and essentially set up a large cover-up operation. In this they advocate:
– His refusal to take back the amendment for the FDFA, so that any citizens who are being monitored can be informed.
– The operation of cheap distraction with the decision of Mr. Mitsotakis to request an investigation for a period of ten years.
Is there even one citizen who believes that if the Mitsotakis regime had any evidence against the SYRIZA government for similar practices it would not have already brought it to light? Unless the target of Mr. Mitsotakis is not SYRIZA but the practices and manipulations of the previous ND government and Mr. Samaras. In any case, SYRIZA PS has nothing to fear, not even from the ability of a ruthless and panicked regime to fabricate evidence for past governments, political and even internal party opponents. However, we call on Mr. Mitsotakis not to attempt such non-existent compensation, which only confirms his guilt.

5. The SYRIZA PS will not vote in the Institutions and Transparency Committee on the placement of Mr. Demiris in the EYP. It is not a cross-party choice, it is the choice of Mitsotakis, who is the mastermind of the scandal and apparently goes with the order to cover up and not clear up the scandal of surveillance, illegal and legal.

6. SYRIZA PS expresses strong concern about the handling of the judicial investigation by the Prosecutor of the Supreme Court, as it seems that he is not investigating the major surveillance scandal and the Predator but instead how the circuit was revealed and how the information was leaked for the follow-ups.

7. SYRIZA PS considers that the revelations so far are only the tip of the iceberg. Mr. Mitsotakis acted as the head of a shadowy and uncontrollable parastatal group. For this reason, he considers that there are other political figures, either from the opposition or from the government itself, who have been targeted by these parastatal surveillances. Indicative of Mitsotakis’ guilt is that 10 days after Kathimerini’s report that at least 7-8 more politicians were being monitored, there has been no refutation. So the question remains: Which other politicians, ministers, journalists and businessmen were being monitored by the Mitsotakis sub-state?

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