Asimakopoulou case: 40,000 emails were sent, new developments are coming – 2024-03-31 12:58:27

Resignations, reactions and… the political scene in the “red” after the Prime Minister’s decision to exclude Anna Michelle Asimakopoulou from the European ballot.

You see, the email sent to expatriate Hellenistic voters resulted in rapid developments both for the New Democracy MEP, as well as for the Secretary General of the Ministry of the Interior, Michalis Stavrianoudakis, as well as the New Democracy Expatriate Secretary, Nikos Theodoropoulos, who both resign their positions.

According to BIMAtodoti, SYRIZA is asking the government to provide explanations and to bear the political costs. Does he specifically want to know how the leak happened and by whom? Why was the emigrants’ personal data not protected? Have there been other leaks and to where? The PaSoK in its statement states that the ND has turned the Ministry of the Interior into its election center under the responsibility of Maximos and asks the Minister of the Interior Niki Kerameos to account for the leak of the data and to take responsibility.

According to BIMAtodotis, a total of 40,000 emails were sent. In short, other developments are expected after Clean Monday.

Time for accountability

However, before two weeks were completed, the New Democracy MEP was forced to withdraw from the battle for her re-election in Brussels, because the internal investigation that was carried out gradually found that what had been reported was not far from reality. Now she had to protect her party and not provide fodder for further attrition.

“My conscience does not allow me to unwittingly participate in the efforts of some to harm the institution of postal voting, the Mitsotakis government or the prestige of Greece”, she said in this regard, after of course she had been informed that she would not be included in the “blue” European ballot following the decision of Kyriakos Mitsotakis.

As Christina Korai revealed in this regard on MEGA’s Live News, the MEP met on Thursday in Maximos with the deputy minister in addition to the prime minister, Yiannis Bratakos.

At this meeting Mrs. Asimakopoulou offered to facilitate the ND and asked not to be counted for the European ballot. He will remain just a soldier of the faction, he explained. In general, the resignation of Mrs. Asimakopoulou was a one-way street since the prime minister did not want to march towards the European elections with this story open. It was even pointed out to her that as the second in the polls she had no need to send these emails and act in this way.

Mr. Mitsotakis had already hinted that, if responsibilities arise, he would intervene himself. He didn’t intend to make discounts in this case either. After all, the government had no flexibility of movement after the initiation of both the public prosecutor’s investigation and the investigation ordered by the Personal Data Protection Authority. In order to anticipate the developments, she took her measures.