Committee on Institutions and Transparency

Greek Parliament in Flux: SYRIZA Loses Opposition Role and New Parties Emerge

Minister of Development Takis Theodorikakos proposed the appointment of Anna Stratinakis as the new Consumer Ombudsman, a decision that was approved by the majority of the Special Standing Committee on Institutions and Transparency of Parliament. Her nomination will be formally presented by the Minister at the next Cabinet meeting, where she is expected to assume her duties immediately.

The 300-page report by the deputy prosecutor of the Supreme Court, Achilles Zisis, has only assigned criminal responsibility for the extensive wiretapping of phone conversations of various people including politicians and journalists to the companies that had the illegal Predator software, and not the National Security Service (EYP) or any other government agency (the Hellenic Police [ELAS] or

The Committee on Institutions and Transparency will meet Friday morning in Parliament to address concerns from opposition parties stemming from a recent Supreme Court ruling on the wiretapping case involving illegal spyware.

In the wake of the decision by the Supreme Court Prosecutor's Office to shelve the complaints about the wiretapping case related to state bodies such as the National Intelligence Service (EYP), opposition parties SYRIZA, PASOK, New Left and Course for Freedom have formed a common front demanding that the entire case file is sent to Parliament.

The former chief of the National Intelligence Service (EYP), Panagiotis Kontoleon and Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis' ex-chief of staff, Grigoris Dimitriadis, refused to answer questions of MPs on EYP's wiretapping of PASOK-KINAL leader Nikos Androulakis at a hearing held yesterday by the competent parliamentary Committee on Institutions and Transparency, based on the argument that issues p

Speaker of the House Zoe Konstantopoulou on Thursday banned the use of plastic water bottles in Greek Parliament in another of her weird and wacky measures. Conservative New Democracy Minister Yiannis Tragakis asked for a bottle of water during a meeting of the Committee on Institutions and Transparency.