Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis at today’s government meeting elaborated on the issue of new identity cards, saying they would not have chips, while just a few days earlier Kostas Kyranakis had said they would. Who is telling the truth?
The Prime Minister said:
“I won’t talk about fake news spread by conspiracy theorists. I consider them a minority. They don’t have chips or microphones. Don’t let the citizens get ridiculed. Don’t rush to get new old-style ID cards, because after a while they will cease to be valid, and then they will have unnecessary trouble, and they will burden the police stations.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itzhBHjpEes
However, a government spokesman recently said that the new identity cards have an embedded chip. In particular, Deputy Minister of Digital Governance Kostas Kyranakis said a few days ago, when asked if the new ID cards should have a chip:
“Because if a citizen wants to apply to a public service that supports the ability to identify himself by swiping on a card, then he can do it that way. There is not a single country, except Greece and Italy, where there would be no paper identity cards.”
So they will have a chip. It turns out that either the prime minister lied, or an official of his government said something wrong. Ambiguities are always distrustful in an already distrustful society that is accustomed to having all its governments lie eventually.
The government should know that whether they like the opinion of a minority that believes that the new identity hides something vicious behind it, they must respect it. And do not remember these people only when elections are brewing.
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