On the same line

Ant. Samara for listening. Initially, he, like Karamanlis, described as “inconceivable” the possibility of government interception of negotiations, describing the case as an “anti-democratic bias”. He then asked for light on the case, “without giving the impression that confidentiality is a convenient excuse” in a copied formulation of Karamanlis’s phrase that “privacy needs to be cleaned up.”

Nail for Dendia

However, in the ex-premier’s speech there were many multidirectional moments that were not noticed at first. One of them was heading towards Nikos Dendias. In April 2021, the Foreign Minister stated that “Greece will not become a hydrocarbon producing country and will not start digging the bottom of the Mediterranean.” Samaras … remembered this and commented that these were wrong opinions, “that we are not interested in drilling the bottom.”

Applause

The people gathered in the Pallas Theater once again gave a high appraisal to the Armed Forces. After Antonis Samaras, who received the loudest applause as the presenter, the next one received the first GEETHA Con. Floros, who at the entrance experienced an apotheosis from the side – right – of the public.

“Samarovenizelos”

The reactions to different parts of Samara’s speech were interesting. K. Mitsotakis was warmly applauded when the former prime minister mentioned the foreign policy of the current government, and with no less warm applause, he mentioned Samarovenizelos and the era of his rule along with PASOK.

Chemistry

Among the interests of yesterday’s opening of the Antonis Samaras Foundation was accommodation. Kyriakos Mitsotakis sat as guest of honor between Antonis Samaras and his wife, and a little further on, former Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis sat side by side with United States Ambassador George Tsunis, with whom they seemed to have quite a chemistry.

it didn’t work

I end with a resounding absence from the opening of the Ant Foundation. Samaras, Dora Bakoyannis. The former minister and the former prime minister are now formally on good terms, but the huge gulf between them – political, but above all personal – has never been bridged. However, K. Bakoyannis gave a “gift”, whatever that means.