Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis appreared in Parliament's ex-agenda debate on phone tapping "steeped in arrogance," PASOK-Movement for Change (KINAL) leader Nikos Androulakis said on Friday, charging him with not providing answers to critical questions.

Androulakis, who was not able to attend the party leader debate, referred to the surveillance he was under as of September 2021 (up to his election as party leader in December of the same year) by the National Intelligence Service (EYP), and to a separate attempt for the installation of a spyware program on his cellphone, a spying 'super weapon' costing millions of euros that "could have videotaped me 24 hours a day," as he described it.

"Mr. Mitsotakis thinks this is common, while he knows I am the only member of the European Parliament in the European Union this has happened to," Androulakis said, also criticizing the premier for not explaining the reasons he was placed under surveillance. He reiterated that he had not been spied upon by EYP for eight years as MEP but was suddenly placed under surveillance during his party campaign for election. "Mr. Mitsotakis, stop showing contempt for the intelligence of the Greek people - you wanted to keep PASOK hostage and failed," he charged.

Because the prime minister "expressed concern about when we would meet, I am setting an appointment at the investigating committee, where he can come and respond directly to what he avoided today, choosing to use the toxic clash with Alexis Tsipras as his escape route," Androulakis said, referring to the main opposition Syriza head and the request for a committee that will be discussed in Parliament on Monday.