The head of government affirms that there were “endemic failures” within the national intelligence services.
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For Greek Conservative Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, intelligence surveillance of a left-wing opposition leader was a “mistake”. This error is “politically unacceptable”, did he recognize Monday, August 8 in a televised address.
It would exist “endemic failures” within the national intelligence services (EYP) according to Kyriakos Mitsotakis, who assures that he was not “not up to date”. The EYP has been under his aegis since his election in 2019. The head of government has promised a series of “reforms” to correct “failures” of the EYP.
LSocialist MEP Nikos Androulakis, leader of the third party in Parliament, the Pasok-Kinal, had taken to court on July 26. His laptop would have been the target of a “surveillance attempt” par Predator malware.
Two resignations dealt a major blow to the government of Mitsotakis Friday. The resignation of the head of the EYP, Panagiotis Kontoleon, was preceded by a few hours by that of Grigoris Dimitriadis, secretary general of the Prime Minister’s office and nephew of the latter. He was implicated by the Reporters United investigative sites and the Greek daily Efimerida your syntakton (Efsyn, left) for his alleged links to a Predator marketing company in Greece.