Tsipras

Mitsotakis underlined that shortly before Tsipras left office in July, 2019, his government in the amended criminal code made illegal surveillance, which was a felony, a misdemeanour.

Why PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis lashed out against Nikos Androulakis but at the same time courted [former PASOK leader] Vangelis Venizelos is clear.

The PM effectively argued that PASOK leader Nikos Androulakis exploited his own surveillance for political benefit, because he had already ruled out a coalition with New Democracy.

The government must do everything possible to temper the predominant bad impressions from the EYP surveillance affair, even to proclaim snap elections if necessary.

'How can you possibly maintain that a prime minister can conduct surveillance for reasons of national security? Who will judge those reasons, he and his close associates?'

PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis distanced himself from past declarations that he will not settle for anything less than ND single-party rule and left open the prospect of a coalition government.

'Let every citizen judge whether this is acceptable and draw the conclusions,” Lytras said, noting that the he and Tsiodras, as was their duty as servants of public health, they immediately and repeatedly shared the data to decision makers at the highest level.

'The national advantages are clear to everyone. For the first time there is a provision for military assistance in the event that a third country will attack one of the two countries,' the PM said.

The overall picture is pessimistic, with 49 percent saying that economic conditions will worsen over the next months, and only 25 percent expecting improvement.

On the COVID-19 pandemic, Tsipras, as he has from the beginning, lambasted the government with the charge that it mismanaged the public health crisis.

He declared SYRIZA can guarantee a 'progressive government” that will heal the socio-economic wounds created by the government, which is 'making the rich richer and the poor poorer'.

Tsipras criticised the government, noting that, 'Greece must monitor much more intensely the implementation of the Prespa Agreement and must ratify as soon as possible the pending to memorandums.'

The US was the most indicative case as networks of all sorts of “trolls” were warmly and openly supported by former President Donald Trump and largely prevailed.

The opposition parties expressed their disagreements over the government’s management of the crisis both before and during the second wave of the pandemic.

Yesterday’s bombshell charges lodged by former Syriza justice minister Stavros Kontonis have stirred a political maelstrom within Syriza but their significance goes far beyond the limits of an internal party issue.

Former PM Alexis Tsipras has a duty to shed light on this dark side of democracy and directly assume the political responsibility for his choices.

In Greece, the “new Left” of Syriza leader Alexis Tsipras and its odd political bedfellow, a nationalist junior coalition partner, did everything in their power to conquer the traditional bastions of news and information.

In his first accounting to Parliament since the crisis started one month ago, Mitsotakis thanked “the overwhelming majority of citizens who have accepted the limiting of their personal freedom”.

One does not have a serious institutional opposition that can persuade voters that it has solutions for the country’s problems.

There is a common conviction that many problems would have been transcended if there was even a basic cooperation between political parties.