John Kerry, former US Secretary of State and current Biden administration climate and climate change spokesman, will be in Athens next week.

The US official will meet with both Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias as part of the government’s close contacts with politicians across the Atlantic.

After all, meetings with John Sarbani, an elite member of the Greek-American community and known for his friendly feelings for Greece, Bob Menendez, preceded.

I now invite you to parliament and to the debate that took place on Friday on the issue of surveillance. It did not go unnoticed that most of the performance of Alexis Tsipras was in the nature of defender Nikos Androulakis. No, President SYRIZA did not like PASOK and its President, but – in the absence of Androulakis – he sees a great opportunity to act as the head of the entire opposition and, above all, to speak to the PASOK public.

However, many analysts see a long-term goal behind Alexis Tsipras’ tactics. After the elections, and provided that the numbers permit, invite Nikos Androulakis – with a surveillance machine – to jointly form a cooperation government with the main goal of clearing up the surveillance case. The current view in Kumunduru suggests, and is largely justified, that it will put PASOK in a difficult position, since the particular issue concerns its president in the first place.

However, the Center will continue to monopolize the interests of the parties. Dora, for example, said in a mini-meeting with MPs on Friday that New Democracy should under no circumstances abandon its strategy of approaching this area, regardless of whether relations with its top leadership, such as Evangelos Venizelos, are finally severed. . .

On Friday, after all, there was a new attack by the former PASOK president on the government, which, however, this time was caused by the prime minister himself, who apparently did not forget the sharp report of Venizelos after the observation was made public and made a personal comment against the former PASOK president. “If you believe Mr. Venizelos’ opinion that no politician should be controlled in principle, then say so. But let’s first think about how the Golden Dawn fell apart,” he said, addressing Mr. Tsipras.

Former Deputy Prime Minister Samaras is sure to take the gauntlet, and he did, in a lengthy post he made legal arguments in response to the Prime Minister. However, the political substance was at the end, where Mr. Venizelos ended by saying that the prime minister “if he does not want to respect my political views, he should at least be careful and consider my legal opinions. This could help him cope with the crisis of a centralized and one-man model of power.”

I stay in parliament because so much happened on Friday. For example, Dionysis Hatsidakis, from the cradle of the partisans and a factionalist, took it upon himself to raise the morale of the parliamentary group that had fallen. Every time Mitsotakis raised his voice, he was the first to start applause and shouted to the others: “Get up rrii”.

I am ending with parliament as the Mitsotakis reports were of interest to those who want weak governments inside and outside of Greece. “I am well aware that there are interests that do not want an independent government,” he said, adding that “I know forces outside of Greece that cannot stand in the hard Western path that our liberal democracy has chosen.” And he ended with a specific message: “I want to address all of them. In Greece 2022, other ports will not be resurrected, of which some once sought rubles or drachmas, the media will not be funded by foreign centers with the aim of influencing the political scene.

The Prime Minister, after putting the brakes on criticism of journalists working in foreign media, is preparing a counterattack with personal interviews to foreign press in order to formulate his point of view on this issue and change the current climate.

To convey to you the atmosphere of other camps, in Kumunduru they were satisfied after a debate in Parliament. According to them, Mitsotakis played in such a defense for the first time and, despite his efforts, he failed to score a goal. As for Harilaou Trikoupis, things are more brutal here, as Nikos Androulakis was furious with the prime minister, saying that he would activate his own weapon, which is the European Parliament.

Associate Professor Katerina Sakellaropoulou will speak at the annual Prof. Stavros Tsakirakis Memorial Symposium, which will be held in Lesbos on 30 and 31 August. The symposium is now an institution for Molyvos, hometown of the great professor of constitutional law.

Many say that Kyriakos Velopoulos’ speech to Parliament on Friday contained “cunning” moments in which he extended a helping hand to the government. I listen and write.

Puzzle

Next Wednesday, Kostas Karamanlis will speak in Anoia at a political memorial service in memory of Anoia politician Giannis Kefalogiannis on the 10th anniversary of his death. The situation is such that the eyes will fall even more on Karamanlis, as everyone is waiting to see if he will say something – and what exactly – about the surveillance case. However, history has shown that those who underestimate his position are wrong, as the former prime minister is almost uninfluenced and in the end always speaks from his conscience.