There was a new addition to the Council of Foreign Affairs and Defense yesterday as the Prime Minister announced that from now on the Minister of Immigration and Asylum will also be a member of KYSEA due to the importance of immigration to national security.

Decisions on who will be on the selection committee are expected to be made today. However, it has been decided how the ruling party will approach the rallies. According to the information, they decided to carry out a full-scale attack in Maximu and under no circumstances allow the opposition to look like an attacker and the government to be on the defensive. In this context, the basic plan is not to let anything fall as far as President PASOK is concerned. My understanding is that the climate will be especially polarized…

The most cynical statement about the surveillance scandal came from former SYRIZA minister and considered a possible PASOK candidate, Giannis Panousis. The professor noted that in Greece all scandals end without being investigated and not ended somewhere, when the value of their communicative use ends, because in one way or another all sides of power are accomplices. “Sometimes they throw a scapegoat or two into the arena, but the rule is the net,” the professor said.

Spyros Karanikolas, recently expelled from PASOK, is waging a trench battle on social media in favor of Kyriakos Mitsotakis with such passion that even party officials don’t. I think he will be rewarded with a spot on the ballot.

A very experienced diplomat has been appointed to the post of Acting Secretary General. This is Ambassador Theoharis Lalakos, who fills the seat left vacant by Themistocles Demiris. Mr. Lalakos has until now been Director General for Political Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, while he served in Nicosia and Washington, he was the head of the then liaison office in Skopje, as well as an adviser to the ambassador in Ankara.