In two months – at the latest – from today, the country will go to the polls under the shadow of the unimaginable Tempe tragedy. The first and self-evident thing is that until then, the citizens who yesterday massively rallied across the country should get answers to the question of why this terrible accident occurred, which claimed the lives of 57 people. From that moment on, such a tragic event changes everything and pre-election periodas the political reality before the accident now seems outdated.

The stationmaster’s criminal offense is a given, but he cannot sweep under the carpet existing political commitments such as a delay in the telesecurity system. This important aspect weakens one of the government’s most powerful “papers” – the digitization of the state, since the trains operated in the same conditions as 50 years ago.

This does not mean that the government will stop talking about the very important leaps made in this area, but by law this issue cannot be on the front pages.

Experienced Sources declare that economy will now be the flagship of the election campaign. Same sources note in “K” that the authorities in the pre-election period, which will begin in the next period, will promote the narrative that “clearly mistakes were made and we did not have time to do everything,” but the question of the next elections is whether citizens will trust Mr. Mitsotakis or Mr. well Tsipras to lead the country the next day.

“The dilemma of Mitsotakis or Tsipras” he is not withdrawn, adds the same source, but, apparently, he is adapting to new facts, since the authorities have received a very strong blow.

The economy is at the forefront of the ND election campaign, which will have elements of self-criticism and will be dominated by the “Mitsotakis or Tsipras” dilemma.

But under no circumstances is the government going to cancel what is important that happened in four years, and is not going to forgive SYRIZA for what he got.

For example, the decisive 717 agreement under SYRIZA was only 32% advanced, and was actually only 18% organically ready when the current government reached 70%, government sources say. “The mistake that they didn’t do it faster, but what we got also plays a role,” the same sources add.

The desire to start a political discussion calmly and soberly is one of the reasons that the elections seem to take place in May, so that the pre-election period will be as “normal” as possible, and not focused only on the Tempo tragedy. In this context, the government will try to open debate on all issues in which it has to demonstrate work.

Not only the economy, as predicted, will most likely become the flagship of the election campaign, but also foreign policy, the country’s position in the international arena, the strengthening of the Armed Forces, and the reduction of unemployment – questions that, despite the heavy shadow of the tragedy, will be raised by N.D. in public discussion.

Finally, a key element that is sure to be clearly introduced in the pre-election period is the “correct mistakes” argument. Government of N.D. in nearly four years of her reign, she made several mistakes.

The nightmarish fires of the summer of 2021 were followed by a reorganization of the Civil Protection with a new structure that paid off, as the summer of 2022, which everyone predicted a new nightmare, was one of the best in recent years in terms of fires. In the case of wiretapping, with numerous loopholes and undoubted government errors, institutional telecommunications security initiatives followed.

“We will do the same thing now,” says a government source, acknowledging, however, that tolerance for the government has been exhausted.