Greece's Opposition Demands Snap Elections Over Wiretapping Scandal
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- 16 Sep 2022
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Opposition parties in Greece demanded the resignation of PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis and requested snap elections during a heated debate in parliament over the wiretapping scandal.
Main opposition leader Alexis Tsipras said that Mitsotakis not only knew about the wiretapping of PASOK’s leader Nikos Androulakis, but he ordered his intelligence service to spy on him.
He called on the PM to reveal why Androulakis was under surveillance and assume political responsibility for the scandal by resigning and calling snap elections.
“You are legally, politically but primarily morally obliged to…state why you were surveilling the then-European MP and now head of the third largest party in Greece,” Tsipras said.
“Give an answer,” he demanded. “You are obliged to give an answer. What was this national reason? Is he an agent of foreign interests…Is he dangerous to national security?”
Mitsotakis, who faces re-election next year, has insisted he was unaware of what he has called the legal wiretapping of Androulakis, but that he would not have approved it had he known. It was a mistake, he admitted. Read More...
