{"id":6783,"date":"2026-05-21T18:53:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T15:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=6783"},"modified":"2026-05-21T18:53:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T15:53:00","slug":"floridis-androulakis-in-parliament-violated-the-secrecy-the-ministers-sharp-response-to-the-pasok-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=6783","title":{"rendered":"Floridis &#8211; Androulakis in Parliament: &#8216;Violated the secrecy&#8217; &#8211; The minister&#8217;s sharp response to the PASOK president"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Giorgos Florides has accused Nikos Androulakis<\/b> of <b>institutional malpractice and breach of privacy<\/b>, raising <b>political tensions in the Parliament<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>With <b>harsh language, personal barbs and extreme political<\/b> tension, Justice Minister Giorgos Florides and PASOK President Nikos Androulakis<\/b> clashed in the Parliament during the stormy <b>debate<\/b> on <b>watching, EYP and the OPEKEPE<\/b> case. The minister went on a <b>frontal counterattack<\/b> against the <b>heavy allegations<\/b> of the leader of the <b>axiomatic opposition<\/b>, calling it a <b>serious violation of the secrecy of the Institutions and Transparency Committee<\/b>, while Mr. Androulakis <b>launched new fires against the government and the Grand Maximou<\/b>, further raising <b>the political thermometer<\/b>. The clash between <b>the two politicians turned into one of the most explosive episodes in recent months in Parliament<\/b>, with both <b>accusations<\/b> of institutional aberration, <b>dark practices and political responsibility<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>In <b>particularly high tones, the confrontation between PASOK&#8217;s president,<\/b> <b>Nikos Androulakis<\/b>, and the Minister of Justice, <b>Giorgos Florides<\/b>, during the <b>debate in the Parliament on the case of surveillance and OPEKEPE<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>The attack of Androulakis<\/h3>\n<p>Mr. Androulakis launched a full frontal attack against the government, calling it a &#8220;party and power system emanating from the Mansion of Maximou&#8221; and &#8220;using dark and dangerous practices to maintain power&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Referring to yesterday&#8217;s (20\/5) meeting of the Institutions and Transparency Committee, he claimed that the commander of the National Security Service, Themistocles Demiris, admitted that he &#8220;does not know the reasons for the surveillance&#8221; and that &#8220;there is no recording.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;How much longer will you deceive the Greek people? Does your political deception have limits?&#8221; he said, addressing Mr Florides, while accusing the New Democracy party of &#8220;throwing mud and insinuations&#8221; for 3.5 years because it &#8220;dared to reveal the parastate&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>He went on to say that &#8220;the truth does not harm national interests, but the lies and darkness of Megaro Maximou&#8221;, while he also attacked the speaker of the parliament, recalling statements made in 2022 about the prime minister&#8217;s briefing of the NIS. &#8220;You have no limit to viciousness,&#8221; he noted.<\/p>\n<p>Turning to the issue of OPEKEPE, the PASOK president referred to the &#8220;blue gang that occupied the Organization&#8221;, claiming that &#8220;the Greece of struggling farmers and the Greece of day laborers who had a good time for free&#8221; had been revealed.<\/p>\n<p>He concluded that &#8220;the politics of arrogance and negligence must become a thing of the past in the next elections&#8221;, stressing that &#8220;Greece deserves better&#8221;.<\/p>\n<h3>&#8220;Paid&#8221; response from Florides<\/h3>\n<p>In response, Justice Minister George Florides called it a &#8220;profound insult&#8221; to the secrecy provision of the Institutions and Transparency Committee.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Discussions on the NIS are secret and members are committed to maintaining secrecy even after their term of office ends,&#8221; he stressed.<\/p>\n<p>He said he would not enter into a debate on criminal responsibility, but &#8220;there are grave political responsibilities&#8221; and called the opposition&#8217;s demand that the Supreme Court prosecutor be summoned &#8220;30 days before his retirement&#8221; a &#8220;faux pas.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Androulakis returned, saying that &#8220;national security is not threatened by a question and an answer, but the security of the New Democracy parastate&#8221; and concluded: &#8220;I will not be silent. Corruption and the parastate will pay in broad daylight.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Giorgos Florides accused Nikos Androulakis of an institutional faux pas and breach of confidentiality, raising the political tension in the House of Representatives.With &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6784,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}