ND struggles to shift spotlight away from wiretapping fallout

PoliticsGreek Politics Tags: Institutions, New Democracy, PASOK-KINAL, SYRIZA
Photo by MacroPolis
Photo by MacroPolis

New Democracy’s efforts to shift attention away from the spying scandal are being tripped up by the continued muddled messaging emanating from the ruling centre-right party, which is hoping that Greece’s imminent exit from the enhanced surveillance of its lenders and Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’s speech at the Thessaloniki International Fair next month will prove welcome distractions.

The conservatives’ attempts to shift the focus onto other matters was undermined on Thursday by one of their own MPs, when Haralambos Athanasiou, who is also deputy parliamentary speaker, suggested that there were circumstances in which the National Int...

You need a subscription to access our analysis. Please choose one of the packages available.

If you are already registered, please sign in.

Full Access

A tailor-made service for professionals

Apart from having access to all our analysis and data, subscribers will be able to consult one-on-one with our analysts.

Free Access

Read some of our analysis for no charge

By signing up to MacroPolis, readers will be able to read two of our articles without charge each month. They will not have access to our data or weekly e-newsletter.

Standard Access

Our analysis and data at your fingertips

Subscribers will be able to read the full range of our articles, access our statistics and charts, and receive our weekly e-newsletter for €450 per year.

€500.00