EDITOR’S NOTE (Nick Stamatakis). It was a historic slap in the face to Mitsotakis by Antonis Samaras, yesterday at the Greek Parliament, just one day after Maria Karystianou announced her own party. Samaras focused on the long-running wiretapping and surveillance scandal that has troubled Greece for years. He questioned how it was possible that even his own phone — as a former prime minister — could allegedly be monitored without anyone being held accountable. He argued that the state has failed to seriously investigate who was behind the surveillance and how such operations were allowed to happen. Especially because foreign (Israeli) intelligence agents were behind it.
Samaras warned that this is not just a political controversy but a deeper institutional crisis. Democratic safeguards in Greece are weakening, transparency is disappearing, and powerful mechanisms are operating without proper oversight. He suggested that the country is entering dangerous territory where trust in institutions is being undermined.
What made the intervention especially explosive is that Samaras comes from the same conservative political tradition as current Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis. His criticism was therefore seen not as an attack from the opposition, but as a serious internal rupture within the broader center-right camp.
Greek media described the speech as a “political earthquake” leading directly to the announcement of a new political party led by Samaras and supported by Kostas Karamanlis.
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