The central issue of the election agenda is updated migratory with advanced design fence on Evros. The issue of security at the external borders of the country, taking into account the experience of their instrumentalization migratory flows from a neighbor is an issue in which the government contributes to the successful resolution of a situation with the characteristics of an asymmetric threat to the positions of its leaders. SYRIZAwhich often feature a more lenient approach to immigration pressure.

The Prime Minister is meeting today at Evros to deliver a message from the floor about the importance the government attaches to this issue. Since yesterday Kyriakos Mitsotakisduring his speech to Gerakas, he clarified his intentions: “With or without European money, the fence on Evros will end.”

The government is firing SYRIZA MEP Dimitris Papadimoulis for submitting an amendment to the European Parliament calling for an end to funding for fencing on the EU’s external borders, which of course includes Greece as the EU’s natural border. .

Mr. Mitsotakis recalled yesterday “who is against these difficult efforts to secure the country’s borders.” At that moment, shouts were heard in the address of SYRIZA, and the Prime Minister intervened: “Listen everyone, there is no need for shouts. It just requires judgment and the right choice for the next day.”

Mr Economou

The government dismisses D. Papadimoulis for an amendment to stop financing the construction of fences on the external borders of the EU.

It is clear that the government is not going to miss the opportunity presented to them by the amendment of Mr. Papadimuli and before the elections they will put security and immigration issues on the agenda. Characteristically, yesterday, Mr. Economou included immigration in the main body of information, noting that in 2015 75% of immigration flows to Europe passed through Greece, and in 2022 only 5% entered through our country, adding that “the intention the opposition is clear: to return the country, in terms of immigration and refugees, to the state of chaos we lived in in their day.”

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On the part of Kumunduru, who understands that a standoff over immigration could harm SYRIZA’s attempt to get closer to the voters of the Center, they were quick to clarify yesterday that the party “does not oppose the fence on Evros. However, he does not consider that this contributes significantly to the refugee/immigrant problem and therefore considers other measures necessary, such as having a legal and safe resettlement and immigration channel in Turkey for refugees and immigrants, to be fairly distributed among the EU. countries. or such as the implementation of a mechanism for the return to Turkey of those who are not eligible for asylum.”

Referring to the controversial amendment, the main opposition party says it was introduced by the Eurogroups of the Socialists, Liberals, Greens and the Left, and Dimitris Papadimoulis was the originator of the amendment from the Eurogroup of the Left, as the rest are their own proposing Eurogroups.