A wave of bad weather put aside all political activity for one day, as the priority was to fight the phenomenon without creating the problems that existed last year with Nadezhda. Thus, the discussion scheduled for yesterday on the bill “Care for the personnel of the Armed Forces, rationalization of the legislation on the Armed Forces, organization of the National Guard and other provisions” will take place today, and the discussion scheduled for today on the amendment to exclude parties will take place tomorrow. The Prime Minister is expected to make a presentation on both issues today.

“We suffered and learned”

However, yesterday in Maximos Palace they were especially pleased with how the state apparatus coped with the bad weather. It may not have been as strong as Hurricane Hope in 2022, which made history with snowfall, but in any case, the state machine was ready to cope with the snow. As a natural consequence, government spokesman Yannis Oikonomou said yesterday that the government has once again shown that it is learning from its mistakes and correcting badly written texts.

“General Interest”

Yesterday Kyriakos Mitsotakis had a telephone conversation with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni. Discussions focused on a special meeting of the European Council in Brussels and issues of “common interest” such as immigration and the plan to improve the competitiveness of European industry presented by the European Commission, as confirmed by those who said the two prime ministers would have a good cooperative relationship. .

Karatsaferi proposal

Giorgos Karacaferis appears to have taken on an informal role on behalf of New Democracy in order to “collect” the space to its right. This is how I can interpret the information that the President of LAOS contacted independent MP Konstantinos Bogdanos in the previous days and urged him to vote against the SYRIZA vote of no confidence in order to destroy the bridges with the government camp again. However, Bogdanos was not convinced by Karatsaferis’ exhortations, as he decided to vote for a vote of no confidence.