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A New Democracy official stated the party would attraction the choice to Greece’s highest administrative courtroom, the Council of State.
Asimakopoulou emailed Greeks residing overseas on March 1, the identical day a separate message from the Interior Ministry knowledgeable expats they might solid their votes by put up within the subsequent election.
Failing to clarify how she acquired the voter contact knowledge, Asimakopoulou — vice-chair of the European Parliament committee on worldwide commerce within the earlier time period — dropped out of the election later that month.
The authority found {that a} file containing knowledge on all registered voters had discovered its means into the palms of the Greek EU lawmaker. The record was despatched by an unknown particular person to Theodoropoulos, who then forwarded it to Asimakopoulou, who in flip used it to ship mass marketing campaign emails.
The authority beforehand imposed a €400,000 effective on the Interior Ministry and fined Asimakopoulou €40,000 for his or her respective roles in violating knowledge safety rules. The former lawmaker appealed the effective as extreme.
The leak can be a part of a felony investigation.
The New Democracy official stated the party had already made the adjustments urged by the authority, and stated the effective didn’t imply the ruling party had been immediately concerned within the leak, however fairly that its inner insurance policies didn’t adjust to private knowledge safety legal guidelines.
