I have written before about Maximos’s nervousness towards ministers who have never – or at least once – come out in the media in support of the government. Some even give a more advanced interpretation. “It’s not just that they don’t want to be crumpled by the Tempe accident, but something deeper,” a government official says in the column, explaining: “Many don’t want to fight on TV windows because they see themselves as a minister again.” in a coalition government.

New captains

However, the “vacuum” left by several high-ranking officials has already been filled by a group of deputies who once called them “novice captains.” Deputies Dimitris Kayrides, Dimitris Markopoulos, Kostas Karagounis and Haris Theoharis are constantly televised battles, forming a new strike group. And if I believe Dora—and I have no reason not to—they will also benefit politically in the long run.

nice atmosphere

This is how the climate in PASOK can be described after an interview with Nikos Androulakis on ERT. Few of those who were in Harilau Trikoupi were surprised, as the president decided to go further than constantly mentioning “neither Mitsotakis nor Tsipras” alone, or at least by sharing his thoughts with a very close circle. It appears that Panagiotis Dudonis was aware of the president’s intentions. Andreas Loverdos, who decided to publicly express his dissent at a time when the party should appear united in the elections, also angered party officials.

New questions

Of course, the answers that PASOK felt were given raised even more questions. Who does he mean? – a question that is constantly repeated after applying to a political figure for the post of prime minister. “He does not mean himself,” his associates answer. Sources close to the PASOK president say he is not going to name names ahead of the election.

Candidate “King”

However, names began to sound in the district, where the elections will be held even earlier than ours. The opposition in Turkey seems to have found a superstar to be the economic policy czar if Erdogan loses. His name is Bilge Yilmaz and he is a professor at the Wharton School of Finance in the USA. He is considered a strength of the opposition and the person who will face the biggest challenge if he returns to Ankara, given the state of the economy.

By the way, an American diplomat with experience in the region was asked who would win the elections in the neighborhood, and, surprisingly, he replied: “I believe Erdogan in the end.”

radio silence

And if we return to internal affairs, one of the things that made an impression is the extremely limited, almost non-existent contacts of Nikos Androulakis with the ambassadors of major countries. No matter how eager they are to see him, they eat the door. As one European diplomat put it, “not even Tsipras was like that in his early and turbulent period.”

The scent of a woman

Will it be a woman politician who will lead the Ministry of Citizens’ Protection in the next government and will be called upon to clean up a very difficult ministry that is going through hard times? I’ll leave it as a question for now.

Ioakemidis announces

It is expected that in the coming days, the mayor of Nice, Rentis Giorgos Ioakemidis, will nominate his candidacy for the post of regional governor of Attica. Interestingly, Giannis Sgouros has already put forward his candidacy and is trying to gather people from SYRIZA, which seems difficult after the candidacy of the mayor of Nice.

In London

Our country’s new ambassador to the United Kingdom, Ioannis Causis, presented his credentials to King Charles on Friday. The void he left in Athens, where he served as director of the office of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, N. Dendias, is considered difficult to fill, since, in addition to very hard work, he has a very structured view of the activities of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in general.

“Small city”

Some time ago I wrote to you that N.D. through the competent secretary of Hellenism abroad, Nikos Theodoropoulos and G.G. Pavel Marinachi is conducting a coordinated campaign to increase the number of emigrants who will register to vote. The Bratakov-inspired “aggressive” campaign has borne fruit: the number of registered out of 3,800 people has reached 17,000, with the prospect of reaching 19,000 by the election. “Small town”, as I was correctly commented. Of course, compared with the initial expectations, the figure is small, but miracles do not happen.

“Mill” with F-35

In the Ministry of National Defense, as I have repeatedly told you, there are very often phenomena of inconsistency to such an extent that the question arises of who decides what. The solution was finally found with the cavalry. Instead, he risks losing his lead with the F-35, where no one agrees that we need the Americans to help build the infrastructure for fifth-generation fighters. The deadline for the answer expires, as there should be some kind of conclusion by the end of the month.

book in toilet

The Prime Minister of the neighboring country, Edi Rama, shared memories of his troubled youth in Albania with the audience at an event organized by the Board of Directors of the Delphic Forum on the occasion of Mr. Rama’s visit to Athens. A book given to him by Simeon Tsomokos made Mr. Rama recall a scene from The Godfather to show the situation in Albania. This is the scene in which Al Pacino visits the bathroom to retrieve the gun left for him by his associates. “At some point, one of the banned books came into my school. We hid it in the toilet, and the students one by one asked permission to leave the classroom and managed to scroll through it in the minimum time justified by our stay in the toilet, ”he said. However, Mr. Tsomokos informed the Prime Minister of Albania that this year’s Delphic Forum had space available and they would also be happy to place his work there as a continuation of the Zappeion exhibition.