PASOK calls for snap elections amid widening OPEKEPE probe

Main absorption person Nikos Androulakis called for contiguous snap elections connected Thursday, accusing the authorities of undermining ideology to conceal a widening web of scandals, arsenic a European probe into subsidy fraud widened to see much members of the New Democracy authorities and MPs.

Speaking successful Parliament, the PASOK person described the existent governmental clime arsenic a “dystopia,” claiming that corruption is rooted successful the “heart of the Maximos Mansion,” successful a nonstop swipe astatine Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis.

Androulakis accused the center-right authorities of refusing to clasp a statement connected the caller probe into the ungraded surrounding the OPEKEPE cultivation payments agency, but besides connected the wiretapping affair, which progressive the installation of amerciable spyware connected phones belonging to salient journalists and politicians, including Androulakis himself.

“Elections are the lone solution,” Androulakis said, dismissing a imaginable furniture reshuffle arsenic a specified “cover-up.” 

Androulakis further accused the ruling New Democracy enactment of violating parliamentary process and manipulating investigative committees. He said the government’s “ruthless” powerfulness system is stalling for clip to debar fallout from caller rulings and planetary pressure.