On Wednesday afternoon, the leader of the radical party Syriza presented a motion of no confidence in the government of the conservative Kyriakos Mitsotakis over the scandal of wiretapping carried out by the intelligence services on politicians and the military.
It should be noted that it is not the first time that the leader of the radical party presents a motion of censure against the Government. Just a year ago, Tsipras filed a motion with the Greek parliament for poor government management during the snowstorm. As then, the possibility of the motion going ahead is nil since New Democracy has an absolute majority (with 156 of a total of 300 seats).
For months the issue of wiretapping was the main reason for disputes between New Democracy and Syriza. Things took another turn yesterday when the director of the Communications Security Agency, Christos Ramos, made available to Mitsotakis, the president of Parliament, the minister of justice and the leaders of all the parties with parliamentary representation a report with the results of their investigations into this matter. Rammos chose this route to report the case due to the Mitsotakis government’s refusal to report it through the Hellenic Parliament’s Transparency Commission.
Those involved in the listening
Although Rammos’s information does not include specific names, the details in the profiles of the people involved are so detailed that there is no doubt about the identity of the six affected. Among them are the current Minister of Labor, Kostís Chatzidakis, the leader of the Kinal-Pasok Social Democratic party, Nikos Andrulakis, various members of the military leadership, including the Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces, Konstantinos Floros.
Hard in his statements, Alexis Tsipras stressed that it was “an unprecedented scandal” since the end of the dictatorship and that the file includes “the work of the parallel state created by Mitsotakis.” In addition, he has accused the government of creating this “network to have at its fingertips, not only relevant information about his political rivals, political friends, the military leadership, journalists, but to be able to bribe them if necessary.”
Finally, Tsipras presented the motion of censure, alleging that it is his work to clarify the facts and take charge of their responsibilities and added that “the Government and the Prime Minister should not continue in their post for another day.”
The debate takes place this Wednesday afternoon and the vote next Friday, January 27 at night. It should be remembered that the general elections will take place next spring and that, for the moment, New Democracy continues to lead the vote intention polls. According to the survey that the private channel SKAI published yesterday, the advantage of New Democracy over Syriza would be 7.5%.
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George is Digismak’s reported cum editor with 13 years of experience in Journalism