Greece’s main opposition leader and former prime minister, Alexis Tsipras, requested a censure motion against the government after he revealed names of people who were tapped by the state intelligence unit.
“The last six months Mitsotakis is lying that he wasn’t aware,” Tsipras told lawmakers Wednesday, accusing Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis of being responsible for spying on the officials. Current labor minister Konstantinos Hatzidakis was being tapped from November 2020 to May 2021, when he was energy minister, while the head of armed forces and other military officials were spied on from July 2020 to May 22, according to Tsipras.
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Tsipras’s comments came a day after he met with the head of the independent authority for Communication and Privacy, who handed him a letter with the findings of his investigation into who was under electronic surveillance from the state spy unit. The agency also sent the letter, which was classified, to all parliamentary party leaders, as well as to the president of the parliament and the justice minister.
The spy scandal in Greece broke in August and since then Mitsotakis has been under pressure from the opposition because his office oversees the spy agency. The national intelligence service was revealed to have been spying on Nikos Androulakis, the leader of Greece’s opposition socialist Pasok party, as well as on a reporter investigating powerful business figures.
The spy scandal in Greece broke in August and since then Mitsotakis has been under pressure from the opposition because his office oversees the spy agency. The national intelligence service was revealed to have been spying on Nikos Androulakis, the leader of Greece’s opposition socialist Pasok party, as well as on a reporter investigating powerful business figures.
As a result, the general secretary of Mitsotakis’s office, who is also the premier’s nephew, resigned, along with the head of the spy unit at the time. Mitsotakis has admitted that the surveillance was conducted, but he has repeatedly said he wasn’t behind it.
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The tension between the government and Tsipras’s Syriza party is expected to rise as the country heads to national elections this spring.
Elections will take place under a straightforward proportional representation system, which makes it almost impossible to have a one-party government. If the parties are unable to form a coalition, a new round of elections would need to be held about a month later, which would then be under a semi-proportional system that makes it easier to form a government.
Elections will take place under a straightforward proportional representation system, which makes it almost impossible to have a one-party government. If the parties are unable to form a coalition, a new round of elections would need to be held about a month later, which would then be under a semi-proportional system that makes it easier to form a government.
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