And suddenly, in the middle of yesterday, the office of Kostas Karamanlis and Todoris Roussopoulos exchanged … announcements. The reason was a leak from the ex-premier’s office, which “devastated” the former representative for his indirect position that the resigned Minister of Infrastructure Kostas Karamanlis should not run in the upcoming elections – as he himself did in 2009. Sources “The former prime minister’s office stated that these views were private to Mr. Roussopoulos and were not known to the former prime minister. Mr. Roussopoulos bluntly responded as follows: “Despite the completely paradoxical and strange information that the office of the former Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis wants to make it clear that my political positions are personal, I have to take it for granted that opinions do not end with the approval of third parties. This could never happen.”

Key phrase

The Prime Minister has not officially made any decisions regarding the timing of the elections, but everything indicates that April 9 practically “does not happen” and everything is leading to elections in May. In fact, according to the column, at one of the many meetings at Maximos, the phrase “we should let people have their say after the accident” was said to be correct. After all, the government is still in the management phase the day after the tragedy, which was evident from yesterday’s meeting in Maximos between Mr. Mitsotakis and the EU delegation. and the issue of modernizing the railways.

Permission

A joint ministerial decision has been signed, which initiates the provision of the so-called “seaworthiness”, that is, the allowance that will be received by the crews of warships on a business trip. This is an amount of approximately 25 million euros, which includes an allowance that applies to personnel of other branches of the armed forces for the period of their posting. The grant is the satisfaction of a long-standing request, not officially announced due to a tragic incident.

Reflections

Whichever way you look at it, words at such moments must be weighed. The first to break the rule was Adonis Georgiadis, who suggested on a TV show that the retired Kostas Karamanlis could not tell if the trains had safety issues. “Perhaps the minister thought that if he comes out and says that the trains have security problems, then tomorrow there will be no trains in Greece,” he said at one point in his presentation.