The visit of Kyriakos Mitsotakis to Serres on 1 September is based on an interesting triptych: the prime minister will visit the new building of the fire brigade, i.e. civil protection, a new school, i.e. the new wing of the Serres Hospital, that is, health but also business. However, from a political point of view, the semiotics of the visit itself is more important, because by choosing to be in Serres at that particular point in time, it sends a strong factional signal, since it is the birthplace of the Karamanlids and a prefecture with strong semiotics. “blue” party mythology.

What’s going on with the electoral law?

The issue that Maximos Harakopoulos raised yesterday, speaking about the need to change the electoral law, is not new, but has been discussed in the background for a long time, since the issue concerns both the government and K.O. N.D. Some deputies believe that the bonus of 50 deputies should be returned, “which gives stability to the country” and the prospect of governance. Harakopoulos, on the other hand, used the additional argument that since SYRIZA says she will be the first party, she has no choice but to accept the bonus return. The truth is that after recent events, the issue has resolutely returned to the discussion, since now the new fact is that PASOK does not have the opportunity to enter into a discussion about joint management with ND, which practically creates the conditions for -governance. However, in Maximu, as seen in Yiannis Oikonomou’s answer to a related question that “we will use the existing institutional structure”, they do not seem to be thinking about changing the electoral law. It is possible that in the next difficult period, pressure will increase, giving Mitsotakis no chance to convince and play with the institutionally damaged image of the government.

His own proposal

Following the logic of shedding a lot of light and leaving no shadow on the object of surveillance, the ND deputy moved yesterday. Thodoris Russopoulos. In fact, the former government spokesman made his own proposal in a public debate, stating that “if we want to draw conclusions beyond the scope of the investigation” and “so that nothing is covered up, the Supreme Court prosecutor should start his own investigation, in which Mr. Androulakis,” and concluded that the country was concerned about the case, which is not insignificant, “but it may not be as big as it is made out to be.”

Changes

Now I’m taking you to PASOK, where the information says that the original speaker of the party in yesterday’s debate was Evangelia Liakulis, who was eventually replaced by Haris Kastanidis. The change, according to well-informed PASOK insiders, was made because Castanidis has more parliamentary experience to handle such debates. However, the blue MPs interpreted this change as PASOK’s approach to SYRIZA.

They applauded him

Some time later, the rather conspiratorial approach seemed to be confirmed, as at the end of the deputy’s speech in Thessaloniki, the deputies from SYRIZA applauded Haris Kastanidis, making a wing of N.D. talk about “cooperation in work”, which, however, is not conceived and not confirmed politically.

No cracks

The media initially issued a statement. But that’s not all. Politico returned to the issue of Giannis Oikonomou’s personal attack on his journalist and this time, through its director Jamil Anderlini, who spoke of the “shameful treatment” of Stamoulis, urged the Greek government to “do much more to uphold values”. freedom of speech and freedom of the press. The double reference to the question has a double meaning: on the one hand, the support of Mesos without asterisks to its journalist, on the other hand, that such questions are fundamental for the Western press and do not pass … just like this.