Nikos Androulakis is determined to hammer the government following the latest developments around the wiretapping case. The PASOK leader has set his sights on taking this particular case to its conclusion, attempting in this way to change the agenda, as the main opposition party finds itself amid internal disputes and revelations of officials’ involvement in scandals (OPEKEPE, OPEKA, vocational training programs). By all indications, Nikos Androulakis will follow a hard rock strategy (reminiscent of the fierce PASOK-New Democracy clashes in the mid-2000s) with the sole goal of ultimate vindication. With this approach, he will move forward in the coming period, estimating that he has only to gain from this move and nothing to lose.
Androulakis launches fierce attack on Mitsotakis
Indeed, it is considered certain that today’s discussion within the framework of “Prime Minister’s Hour” – based on the current question he has submitted to Kyriakos Mitsotakis about energy costs – is a first-class opportunity to reveal his cards. Mr. Androulakis will attack the prime minister with vehemence while it is given that he will put issues of rule of law and transparency on the table.
Moreover, since yesterday the main opposition leader showed he will continue to move institutionally, which is why during the emergency press conference he gave at the Movement’s offices on Charilaou Trikoupi street, he emphasized that initially he will request a debate before the order of business in Parliament, so that the prime minister can take a position and account for the Greek justice decision, while he added that he will also submit a request for the establishment of an investigative committee since the previous investigative committee was deemed manipulated. “The submission of our request for a new investigative committee will be made with the clean copy of the judicial decision, which is why I ask for its acceleration,” he characteristically noted.
At the same time, he pointed out that “today’s (yesterday’s) decision is a landmark decision that constitutes a victory and vindication of a struggle I began the moment I crossed the threshold of the Supreme Court on July 26, 2022. Along with me, the victims of the deep state who did not hide are vindicated. Who declared present from the first moment in a battle for democracy, the rule of law and respect for human rights in our country. This decision, however, is above all a tremendous defeat for New Democracy and the government. It is a defeat of the deep state that was organized by the Maximos Mansion system and that utilized dark practices belonging to other eras, exposing our homeland and the rule of law in our country.”
“Despite the wretched slanders and the organized war I received and we received from the first moment, not only did we stand upright but we achieved another significant victory in this dark case. All this came as concrete results that prove who was right and who was wrong in handling this case. Today some celebrate even though they remained only in words,” he added.
“I will continue the struggle to the end – Before us lies the European Court of Human Rights”
“I will continue this struggle to the end, truly to the end, and you can be sure of that. First, the Tsiaras law was annulled by the Council of State as unconstitutional, now came another victory. Before us lies the European Court of Human Rights. All this shows that the struggle continues and does not end. Despite the government’s efforts, Democracy will win and in the end everyone will be held accountable, no matter how high they are, even Mr. Mitsotakis with Mr. Dimitriadis,” the main opposition leader subsequently emphasized.
“This judicial effort, this struggle is not a personal choice. It is a choice for Democracy, for the rule of law and above all for our homeland. To prove to Greece in 2026 that our country is a normal European country and that no one will ever think again, at the expense of society, at the expense of Democracy, to organize such practices, dark, para-state and harmful to our homeland,” Nikos Androulakis stressed at another point.
“I want to thank from the depths of my heart Christos Kaklamanis, Flora Tabaki, Manolis Velegrakis, Nikos Alivizatos for his enormous contribution to the Council of State decision but also for issues concerning the European Court of Human Rights. I also want to thank a victim of this deep state, Thanasis Koukakis, who also gave a great struggle with persistence to reach final vindication. The struggle continues. I am very happy about today’s decision, a decision that exposes the Justice leadership for archiving the decision and you can be sure that the democratic faction does not move based on political criteria. But based on principles and values that always make its stance unshakeable,” Nikos Androulakis concluded.
