PASOK pushes for phone surveillance inquiry

Opposition PASOK has submitted a connection to found a parliamentary enquiry committee into telephone surveillance allegations and the relation of the National Intelligence Service (EYP), reopening governmental tensions successful Parliament.

The proposal, led by PASOK person Nikos Androulakis, comes amid expectations it whitethorn beryllium rejected. Government sources said that the ruling New Democracy enactment could invoke law provisions requiring astatine slightest 151 votes, alternatively than 120, for inquiries involving “foreign argumentation and nationalist defense.”

Government spokesman Pavlos Marinakis said officials would respond aft reviewing the proposal. “First we will work this proposal, and then we will respond, arsenic we did successful the corresponding erstwhile case,” helium said.

A akin enquiry was launched successful '22 with absorption support, though New Democracy did not then importune connected the higher vote threshold. That probe was conducted down closed doors, and its findings were not made nationalist owed to nationalist information concerns.

Currently, PASOK and six different absorption parties clasp 114 seats and are seeking further support to scope 120 votes. However, if the higher threshold is enforced, the connection is expected to neglect successful Parliament.