Recent revelations that Greek intelligence tapped an opposition leader’s phone have left the embattled prime minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, struggling to fend off a mounting scandal ahead of next year’s elections.
Mitsotakis has denied knowledge of the incident and called the actions of the National Intelligence Service, or EYP, “politically unacceptable.”
The turmoil, which one political party referred to as “Greek Watergate,” has already forced the intelligence chief and a close aide of the prime minister’s to resign. Parliament is cutting short its summer recess, and Greek President Katerina Sakellaropoulou has called for an investigation, saying in a statement Tuesday that individual privacy was “a fundamental condition of a democratic and liberal society.”Monday in a televised address to the nation.
Androulakis, who is also a member of the European Parliament, said that he contacted the institution’s cybersecurity service after receiving a suspicious message on his phone. In an address Friday, he said he later learned that the EYP was listening to his conversations over a three-month period in 2021, when he was campaigning for the PASOK party leadership.
“I never expected the Greek government to put me under surveillance with the darkest practices,” Androulakis said, according toMitsotakis has vowed to strengthen the EYP’s legal framework and transparency mechanisms. The agency reports directly to the prime minister’s office, and any surveillance must be approved by a prosecutor.Earlier this year, two Greek journalists filed similar complaints of being monitored by the EYP.
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