PM’s Chief of Staff, EYP spy chief resign after revelations about hacking of PASOK leader’s phone

Ten days after PASOK-KINAL leader Nikos Androulakis filed suit in the Greek Supreme Court (Areios Pagos) over the hacking of his telephone, after Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis' Chief of Staff, Grigoris Dimitriadis, and the chief of the country's EYP intelligence agency, Panagiotis Kontoleon, tendered their resignations.

Today's events have triggered a major government damage control operation and a political uproar, with opposition parties declaring that the sackings are a direct admission of guilt and demanding the PM's resignation and immediate elections.

Government sources leaked to the media that the PM is determined to serve out his term and snap elections are still out of the question, but many now doubt that.

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Government spokesman Yannis Economou said today that the ruling party accepts PASOK-KINAL's demand for a parliamentary probe and a reconvening of the parliamentary committee on institutions and transparency to re-examine possible political involvement in the case.

Main opposition SYRIZA and other opposition party are directly blaming Mitsotakis for the surveillance, as he is the first prime minister to have placed EYP under the direct supervision and authority of the PM's office.

The attempted hacking of Androulakis phone, reportedly with the Predator spyware programme, was detected by the services of the European Parliament, of which he remains a member, and dates, as he said, to September, 2021.

Government implies PM was unaware of the operation

Although outgoing spy chief Kontoleon has taken full responsibility for the surveillance, which the government maintains was...