Wiretapping scandal: Politico’s new takedown: Mitsotakis’ Greece an “authoritarian state”
There is no end to the controversy that the Mitsotakis government is experiencing, in the background of the revelations about the scandal of surveillance of politicians and journalists but also of the same attack that the rulers have unleashed on representatives of the domestic and international press, with Politico now proceeding to directly compare the Greece of Kyriakos Mitsotakis with authoritarian regimes like China.
In particular, on Saturday the editor-in-chief of the European edition of Politico, Jamil Alderini, refers, among other things, to Politico newsletter in the “obscene behavior suffered by Politico’s colleague, Nektaria Stamoulis”, once again raising the issue of the targeting of the journalist by government representative Yiannis Oikonomou. But he does not stop there, since he points out: “Having worked for most of my career in authoritarian – or totalitarian – regimes (China), I know the pressures and dangers journalists face.”
“I call on the Greek government to do more to safeguard the principles of freedom of the press and freedom of speech that it claims to defend,” concluded Jamil Anderlini, in a direct message to the Greek government.
“I am proud of Nektaria’s work for us and I call on the Greek government to do much more to support the values of freedom of speech and freedom of the press that they claim to embrace,” writes our editor-in-chief. @JamilAnderlini.#Hellas #freedom of the press pic.twitter.com/Hb9q3OXHq9
— Lili Bayer (@liliebayer) August 27, 2022
Anderlini’s intervention comes a few hours after Politico’s revelation about the unholy alliance of the PASOK-KINAL MEP Eva Kaili with the European People’s Party (EPP) to which New Democracy belongs, so that the competent committee of the European Parliament does not come to Greece for the wiretapping scandal and comes to be added to the unprecedented delay of the Mitsotakis government due to the unprecedented interventions against domestic and international media regarding the wiretapping issue.
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