A government spokesman said that EYP had tapped Androulakis’s phone but that the surveillance, which was approved by a prosecutor, was lawful and the prime minister was informed about it last week.
The government has not said why Androulakis’s phone was hacked.
In a public address on Monday, Mitsotakis said that if he had known he “would have never allowed it.”
PASOK is Greece’s third-largest political party and was for decades the main political rival of Mitsotakis’s conservative party, New Democracy.
The government has said it will back a request by the opposition for a parliamentary investigating committee on the issue.
The European Commission is also monitoring the case. Cypriot MEP George Georgiou, vice-chair of the EU’s PEGA committee investigating malware surveillance software, has also sent a letter to the committee proposing a mission to Greece to investigate the allegations.
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