The final end to the scenario of keeping the ministers of foreign affairs and national defense in their posts between the first and second elections is given by information that wants Nikos Dendias not to be positively involved in such a development. While SYRIZA welcomed the possibility of Nikos Dendias remaining in the interim government, she opposed the possibility of Nikos Panagiotopoulos remaining in office. Perhaps weighing something like this, the Foreign Office reportedly responded competently that there are institutional provisions for provisional governments that need not be questioned.

without participation

I learn that Nikos Panagiotopoulos had little, to put it gracefully, involvement in the army crises, confirming those who say that the last period is “out of the system”.

Kolafos

The British Economist, with a very scathing front page stating that Turkey is on the brink of a dictatorship, is “warning” about what is happening in Ankara. “Dictatorship looms in Turkey,” reads the headline, with a subtitle referring to “special reporting on Erdogan’s empire.” All this with a masterful illustration depicting the President of Turkey against the backdrop of his country’s crescent moon and star flag.

What “progressive co-government”?

“How will they build progressive governance?” This question was asked by many yesterday after seeing Communist Party MP Manolis Sintihakis launch a vicious attack on SYRIZA, calling her refusal to participate in the KKE call center wiretapping debate between 2016-2022 a “black mark”. Shortly thereafter, the press office of the KKE issued a statement about a “conspiracy” between New Democracy and SYRIZA to “bury” this particular case.

“Sirizim” or … royalist?

Archbishop Mr. Jerome’s phrase during the exodus scene, “Our King is born,” drew many criticisms, with some speaking of an unfortunate moment. Archdiocese sources responded that the phrase was nothing more than a complete observance of etiquette, as it simply described that the deceased was a king and the legitimate head of the Greek state. The same sources recalled that the archbishop does not come from the matrix of the right faction and during the reign of SYRIZA many called him a “syrizonym”.