With six changes built in IP account after public consultations to complete the process, the next step is towards the end of next week for the bill to be put into Plenary session and political leaders to cross their swords.

After the institutional completion of the process and public opinion polls showing that the issue of wiretapping did not affect her. government as expected by the opposition, Maximos Palace he wants to counterattack. Therefore, he is expected to be “present” at next week’s meeting. Kyriakos Mitsotakis –next Wednesday or Thursday–, which will focus on the following:

• Firstlyas soon as the problem became known, the government took the necessary institutional interventions to protect the system and prevent the recurrence of such phenomena.

• Secondly, the problem of illegal software is not a Greek phenomenon, but exists all over the world, and governments – for example in Spain recently – have faced similar phenomena. In this context, Greece was the first country to pass a law stating that such software is illegal, which tightened the scope much more than other countries abroad.

The prime minister’s priority in the final stretch of the road to elections is to avoid government missteps at the cost of political losses.

• third, Mr. Mitsotakis, amid predicted and opinion polls showing little deterioration in the government’s fortunes, is expected to launch an attack on Topor’s leader. opposition for trying to exploit a serious problem, the government nonetheless took immediate action to address it.

There is a belief in Megaros Maximos that the government can overcome this obstacle and not incur the costs of the elections that it feared, if no new mistake is made from now on. The “I admit mistakes and fix them” tactic has paid off in a few cases so far – poor weather management, the big fires of 2021, the mistakes of the second year of the pandemic – but the more mistakes are added, the less tolerance citizens had in 2020 and 2021, as act cumulatively.

The prime minister’s “order” is for everyone to be very careful and observe the strictest discipline before the elections so as not to make mistakes.

election time

As for the much-discussed timing of the election, the prime minister has yet to decide. The scenario for holding elections in January-February is very weak. On the contrary, there are high chances to call elections in late February or early March, which will be held either on March 26 or in the first ten days of April – April 2 or 9.

Government sources also emphasize that Mr. Mitsotakis wants to have the necessary time before the elections to make personal trips to as many regions of the country as possible, which he will do next Monday when he is in Tripoli and touches on projects throughout the country. Peloponnese .