Greek Ex-Prime Minister Requests Censure Motion Over Spy Scandal
- It’s great opportunity to discuss everything, government says
- Discussion starts Wednesday, lawmakers to vote on Friday
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Greece’s main opposition leader and former prime minister, Alexis Tsipras, requested a censure motion against the government after he revealed names of people who were tapped by the state intelligence unit.
“The last six months Mitsotakis is lying that he wasn’t aware,” Tsipras told lawmakers Wednesday, accusing Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis of being responsible for spying on the officials. Current labor minister Konstantinos Hatzidakis was being tapped from November 2020 to May 2021, when he was energy minister, while the head of armed forces and other military officials were spied on from July 2020 to May 22, according to Tsipras.