MacroPolis

The political landscape is shifting in ways that increasingly constrain the government’s room for manoeuvre. Over recent weeks, pressure on Maximos has begun to converge from multiple directions: Antonis Samaras has escalated his personal confrontation with Kyriakos Mitsotakis over the Predator surveillance scandal and Alexis Tsipras’s new party, the Greek Left Alliance (ELAS), is simultaneously attacking the government’s economic narrative and grappling with the challenge of presenting a credible, fully costed alternative.

Samaras’s decision to request a full investigation from the Supreme Court into the hacking of his phone with the Predator spyware marks the most formal escalation in his long‑running dispute with the government. He has repeatedly raised the issue in Par...