PASOK’s Katrinis: Nikos Androulakis will not be blackmailed, he is not a convenient partner

“Obviously monitoring Androulakis did not help you to understand that Mr. Androulakis will not be blackmailed and is not a convenient partner,” PASOK parliamentary group leader Michalis Katrinis said from the floor of the Parliament, addressing Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis.

“We assure you that we are continuing our autonomous path,” he characteristically said and added “the government is heavily exposed by the wiretapping scandal. You did everything you could to downplay the fact of the surveillance.”

“The actions of the government and National Intelligence Agency-EYP constitute an institutional diversion.”

“Mr. Mitsotakis cannot bear the truth and that is why he is leaving,” Michalis Katrinis said when the prime minister left Parliament.

What other politicians and actors in public life are being monitored, he asked the prime minister.

You didn’t know, you didn’t ask to learn, you don’t care to know who is being monitored under your rule.

He described the EYP commander as decorative, saying: “But who was it that chose him with a photographic amendment? Who brought the EYP under the exclusive competence of the prime minister?”

As Mr. Katrinis said, PASOK will insist on legitimacy because democracy does not tolerate regime attitudes that undermine its existence, adding that “it will not allow us to return to the dark ages of the past”.

During his speech, Michalis Katrinis asked several times for the Prime Minister to explain to Parliament “why you were monitoring Nikos Androulakis”, questioning if he was considered ” a threat to national security”.

EYP cannot continue to operate within the same institutional framework, he said and referred to the proposal of Nikos Androulakis for its change.

PASOK does not play anyone’s game and is cannot be blackmailed, he said.