The bad relationship between Mitsotakis and Venizelos was confirmed yesterday. The prime minister decided to attack – both politically and personally – the former president of PASOK. He first said that “Mr. Venizelos first told us that a politician should not be followed” and then “he was forced to reform.” The Prime Minister did not stop there, moving on to criticize Venizelos’ character, stating that “it is difficult for him, but sometimes he must admit that he is not all-knowing.”

sharp response

Evangelos Venizelos, in a post a little later, pointed out that with the recent government law, the majority “takes the position that there is a special constitutional status for politicians for reasons of protecting democracy.” He noted that “for several months we have heard the political argument that “no one is free from surveillance”, that “everyone is equal before the EMP”, that “the EMP prosecutor decides for everyone, even PtD” and concluded: “Who stood on whose point of view – a question for any attentive reader to evaluate what has been written on the issue of wiretapping from August 2022 to the present.

Two winners and one loser

And how did yesterday’s duel in parliament end? An experienced blue parliamentarian said what we saw had “two winners and one loser.” The “winners” were ND. and SYRIZA, who, in two nearly parallel monologues, mostly addressed their audiences and made no mistakes that could have mattered while staying “within their money”, according to the same source. On the contrary, PASOK was “absent” from the whole process. The inherent weakness of Nikos Androulakis is noticeable, as a party without a leader cannot run for parliament. And this was shown by the fact that during the speech of Michalis Katrinis, I counted 8 of the 22 deputies of the party in the chairs.

Tactics

I stay with PASOK as I notice – in contrast to the past and tactics towards the late Fofi Gennimata which were often controversial – that Alexis Tsipras has had a clear strategy towards PASOK and Nikos Androulakis for several months now that seems to be working for him . . Even when Har. Trikoupis attacks SYRIZA, Kumundura keeps the ball low. “It shoots him” in a different way, a SYRIZA source told me, which can be seen in the opinion polls as PASOK doesn’t seem to have an advantage in the polls, on the contrary, it is losing ground.

screenplay Avramopoulos

A letter from the secretary of the commission, saying that Avramopoulos’ participation in Panzeri’s NGO was legal, further paves the way for the former commissioner’s nomination in the national elections. The question is where. Recently, his name has been heard by Ilya. The argument is that since Costas Tzavaras will no longer be a candidate, New Democracy needs a strong name to rally the blue base and strengthen its representation. And many say that Avramopoulos has these elements. However, he expressed a desire to be a candidate again in the first Athens, however in his last interview he stated in one of his disgusts that “he is always at the disposal of the party and the prime minister” and “he is important not what I want, but what composition is needed, ”leaving open all the possibilities. Interesting.