“You will give answers because you are accused of undermining the functioning of the democratic state”, said the president of SYRIZA Alexis Tsipras addressing PM Mitsotakis in his speech at the Plenary session in Parliament on the phone tapping scandal debate.

Alexis Tsipras submitted a request for a discussion of political leaders, after the revelations that the president of PASOK – Movement for Change (KINAL), Nikos Androulakis, and the journalist Thanasis Koukakis were targets of surveillance by the Greek National Intelligence Services (EYP).

“A debate without evasions, but with “names and addresses” is the main point of contention for the official opposition, which comes to today’s pre- morning debate in Parliament determined to pressure the government for “compelling answers” to “relentless questions”, in the case of monitoring.

Although for SYRIZA the government has been trying to deliberately stall the proceedings, however, in the days between the resignations of the Secretary to the Prime Minister, Grigoris Dimitriadis, who is also Mitsotakis’s nephew, and the Head of the EYP, Panagiotis Kontoleon, the new revelations, the “consecutive admissions” of Oikonomou (Government spokesperson) – Demiris about the scope of the surveillance list, but also the widespread international press, which according to SYRIZA-Progressive Alliance “are disparaging the country for the government’s regime practices”, they have paved the way for shedding light on the issue.