PASOK leader Nikos Androulakis launched a full-scale attack on Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis regarding energy policy during his parliamentary address. The opposition leader stated: “I took the initiative to discuss a critical issue for all households in the country, for every small and medium-sized enterprise, the agricultural sector, and industry. Citizens pay more expensive electricity than the European average based on their purchasing power. 32% of Greeks have overdue debts on utility bills.” “In the EU, the corresponding percentage is 6.9%. Almost 5 times higher. Today, almost one in five households cannot adequately heat their homes. Behind these numbers, there are people who turn off their heating to manage to pay for groceries,” the PASOK leader emphasized.
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Subsequently, he referenced small and medium-sized enterprises that “limit their activity because they cannot bear the cost of electricity. There are farmers, among those who went to the blockades, who see their production becoming uncompetitive and unsustainable.” According to Androulakis, “while wholesale prices are de-escalating, Greek tariffs remain among the most expensive in Europe.” He also highlighted that “PPC (Public Power Corporation), while being the big winner of the energy crisis due to hydroelectric plants and other energy production sources it owns, instead of showing its social face, evolved into a cash cow with ‘golden eggs’ for the golden boys. A clientelistic tool for distributing hefty advertising packages and investments. And all this while the State has the necessary shareholding weight to determine other priorities in the company. As if all this wasn’t enough, you proceeded with hasty coal phase-out without investments in networks and storage. In our opinion, the pace of coal phase-out should have been absolutely linked to these investments so that infrastructure exists for a truly fair and green transition.”
“So why isn’t it fair? Because you handed over the energy sector to the few and powerful, not to the real producers. The distribution of our country’s energy sector constitutes one of the biggest scandals of your era, Mr. Mitsotakis. Farmers, cooperatives, energy communities are systematically excluded from the electricity sector. The evidence: Real broad-based Energy Communities barely reach 25. While Spain in 2024 had 659 energy communities, Portugal had 89, Italy 600, and in Germany 41% of renewable electricity production comes from agricultural cooperatives, energy communities and individual small producers. A revealing element of your failure in storage issues is that in 2025, green energy was lost equivalent to all agricultural electricity in the country or consumption of approximately 500,000 households,” Nikos Androulakis added.
At the same time, Nikos Androulakis made particular reference to the Vertical Corridor, meaningfully saying that “you constantly talk about the Vertical Corridor and we hope you will utilize it, but you avoid, Mr. Mitsotakis, informing the Greek people about the timeline for laying the cable for the Israel-Cyprus-Crete electrical interconnection.” He also made pointed remarks about the stance of Deputy Foreign Minister Haris Theocharis, saying that cable laying is “stuck” due to responsibility borne by the Cypriot side.
Attack on Mitsotakis over wiretapping: The decision confirmed that my surveillance was not a “mistake”
Additionally, the opposition leader fiercely attacked the Prime Minister over the wiretapping scandal. In the aftermath of yesterday’s court decision, Nikos Androulakis spoke of a “defeat of the deep state that was organized at the Maximos Mansion under your premiership.” According to Androulakis, the decision “confirmed that my surveillance was not a ‘mistake,’ as you once stated, but an organized para-state mechanism that brutally violated human rights, undermined the rule of law, and exposed the country internationally.” He subsequently characterized the government’s reactions as “deplorable” and added that instead of the Prime Minister apologizing, he became “synonymous with moral and institutional decay, attacking with audacity saying we don’t respect justice.”
Furthermore, addressing the Prime Minister, he said that “respect for justice means I respect its decisions and implement them. You don’t respect it. That’s why I call on you to implement the Supreme Court’s decision. You ask us if we trust justice and I answer: I trust it, as much as you trusted it when Alexis Tsipras was Prime Minister. You say the judicial decision doesn’t concern you because it involves ‘some private individuals.’ Private individuals who were convicted yesterday because they trapped half your ministerial council and the chiefs of the armed forces. Did you actually read that the court is calling for a new investigation for espionage? Espionage, Mr. Mitsotakis. What will you do? What will be the legal actions of Greece’s Prime Minister against these private individuals, some of whom are residents of third countries? The Prime Minister who swore to serve the people and the homeland must tell us today what he will do with those who organized this deep state? National security means it’s not for illegal power games, Mr. Mitsotakis. You will be held accountable in broad daylight.”
He then questioned why government officials wonder about the reasons PASOK will propose conducting a new investigation. “Simply put, the court’s investigation revealed that your MPs violated their oath and organized a sham investigation with rigged questions, cut and tailored to the deep state’s measurements. The investigative committee will be held so that those who hid from their responsibility by violating their oath can come forward. This struggle will continue unwaveringly until the end. To bring to justice all those who think that because they won the elections and conquered power, the state belongs to them. The state doesn’t belong to you, Mr. Mitsotakis. I will do everything in my power to teach you an expensive lesson: the state is not spoils in the hands of each Prime Minister. To end once and for all impunity and corruption that paralyze the homeland and don’t allow Greece to spread its wings, creating a crisis of confidence.”
