In a letter to his disciple Paanius, Saint John Chrysostom said: “You renewed my courage, because after you announced to me about something unpleasant, you added to everything that happens the phrase that we should say: “Thanks be to God for everything.” . With the same phrase, he concluded his statement to the media on Sunday evening. Dimitris NatsiosChapter Victory Movement.which in the elections on May 21 became the 6th political force, gaining more than 167,000 votes.

Shortly after 10:00 p.m., when it became clear that “Niki” was approaching but not reaching the 3 percent barrier to enter parliament, a theologian by profession, the founder of the movement, Dimitris Natsios, read to the camera the characterization of the party’s identity statement, which was as follows: “We have the disposition and ability, with God and with the help of the Virgin Mary, to create a Greece worthy of our expectations and history. Thank God and thank you anyway.

Mr. Natsios sat at the head of a cabinet surrounded by nine men and one woman, the majority of the party’s candidates for parliament. Behind him stood out the party logo, the image of Jesus and two flags: one of Greece and the second with the inscription “In this victory.” Near the small office of the party, in the corridor of the 7th floor on Stadiou street, 10, relatives and friends of the candidates gathered. Women in maxi skirts who greeted us with the phrase – the wish “Christ is Risen” and children in blue short-sleeved T-shirts with the Victory logo on the back.

In private conversations, party officials complained about the artificial shortage of party ballots at polling stations, as well as reservations about the mechanism for counting votes. “They fear and tremble the party-revolution that will raise up the Greeks,” a supporter of the party wrote yesterday under the statement of the Nika legal team on social networks.

Dimitris Natsios is based in Kilkis, where the party won one of the highest electoral percentages (5.22%), and performances in the prefectures of Pieria (7.46%), Pella (6.12%), Thessaloniki (5.59%), Halkidiki (5.36%), etc.

For a number of years, Mr. Natsios hosted a show on Church Channel 4E, and its ending in 2018 provoked reactions from the faithful. On the Nika website, the immigrants are referred to as “settlers”, and the reason for the creation of the party was allegedly the signing of the Prespa Agreement, which party officials call the “sale of Macedonia.” One of the party’s parliamentary candidates wrote about the Russian invasion of Ukraine, expressing a position that can be considered friendly to the Kremlin, and the elder’s niece Paisiy is also participating in the vote.

One kilometer north of Nike’s offices, in an old neoclassical building on Hippocratus Street, are the offices of Plefsis Eleftherias. From the party he founded in 2016 Zoe Constantinopoulou and in the previous elections it almost fell short of 3%, as did the Movement for Victory. Something, however, that Pléphsis officials are optimistic that they will succeed in the match on June 25th.

Election night began solemnly: Ms. Constantinopooulou arrived at the party’s office shortly before the exit polls, saying that “the messages we have been receiving since morning are very positive.” Several drivers passing by the offices yelled at Ms. Constantinople, “Zoy, let them know.” She, like several other friends and candidates of the party, was informed about the predictions of their passage to parliament. At the beginning of the vote count, they burst into cheers and applause when they saw on television the first results of the count, which foreshadowed the entry of Plephsis into Parliament. However, the climate changed along the way, and shortly before 11:00 p.m., Ms Constantinopoulou thanked her 165,000 voters in front of the cameras, setting a new voting date of 25 June.