Parliament’s Committee on Institutions and Transparency met in a tense session on Wednesday over requests to summon witnesses Grigoris Dimitriadis and Tal Dilian in connection with the wiretapping affair, which involves the illegal use of the Predator spyware to target politicians, journalists and defense officials. The requests were rejected by the governing majority.
Lawmakers from New Democracy cited parliamentary rules defining witness eligibility, arguing that the two men are private individuals rather than public figures.
“Calling anyone simply because they give an interview degrades the Committee on Institutions and Transparency,” Makis Voridis said, adding that the opposition’s demands served “obvious communication purposes.”
Opposition parties strongly objected. PASOK’s Panayiotis Doudonis presented a November 2022 document showing that the committee had previously invited Dilian to testify.
“The question of today’s session is whether the rules of Parliament and the Constitution will be violated,” he said, later describing the move as an “extreme maneuver.”
