A big event that will mark the unity of ND is scheduled for May 9 as part of an event dedicated to the anniversary of the signing of the agreement on Greece’s accession to the EEC. I learn that the prime minister contacted two former prime ministers and leaders of the ND, Kostas Karamanlis and Antonis Samaras, and invited all three to speak at the event. Kostas Karamanlis and Antonis Samaras considered the proposal to be institutional and accepted it without discussion. So, unexpectedly, we will see them taking turns on stage, a few days before the election, preaching unity, with two former prime ministers as faction defenders.

A total of five “special teams” have been set up by Deputy Prime Minister Yiannis Bratakos in collaboration with Secretary Pavlos Marinakis to better prepare for 21 May. These are groups working with expatriates, rural associations, voluntary associations, chambers and the critical sector of local government. And I say it’s critical because most local governments are close to the ND. and they can actively help in the run-up to elections.

For this reason, a special group was created, which includes Menios Koromilas, Kristianna Kalogirou and Michalis Stavrianudakis. A key role in this group is played by Admiral Dionisis Hatsidakis, who knows self-government perfectly and puts this mechanism into action. The task of the team is to see, in addition to regional governors, mainly mayors and local government officials, so that they can be active in the run-up to the elections and inform about the work of the government. The result, in fact, will be measured locally and depending on whether the N.D. reciprocating or not. support for the October elections.

Vassilis Glezos was recently announced by SYRIZA as the candidate for the Member of Parliament for the Cyclades. His inner-party opponents say that the heavy surname he bears played a key role in choosing a young man who is not related to the iconic Manolis Glezos, but apparently not related to the political culture of his second name. The young candidate posed on social media with offensive anti-ND slogans, something the “genuine” Glezos would never do.

Today, Easter Tuesday, Alexis Tsipras will continue his tour after a few days of Easter break, which he will spend in Corfu. Lavrio, in addition to being an area with a strong leftist element, is also its “neighbor” due to its residence in Sounio.

Athens will be at the center of European diplomacy next Friday as the Foreign Ministry, in cooperation with the UN, organizes a meeting of special envoys of member states in Syria to discuss the future of relations with Arab countries. a country. Geir Pedersen, the UN special representative for Syria, will be in Athens to coordinate the meeting and immediately after that will go to Damascus. Greece is represented in Damascus (via Beirut) by Ambassador Nikos Prothonotarios, who wants to return to the region’s central country. In general, the absence of Athens in this country in previous years and the commitment to purely Greek-Turkish created several gaps.

For some time, the non-right-wing mayor of Poros, Yiannis Dimitriadis, has been inviting MPs to meetings to discuss Poros issues and issues, but the response he has received has been lukewarm to indifferent. Domna Mihailidou saw a gap, immediately responded to the invitation, finding an ally on the island, which has many problems: from basic infrastructure to the lack of a professional fire department.

One would expect Kyriakos Pierrakakis, as a competent minister of digital governance, to say yes to everything digital. Yet there is one area that says no to digitization, and that is e-voting. As he explained in a recent TV interview, “First you digitize the state, and then you talk about voting from home.” He also explained that this system (voting from home) exists in a fully digitized Estonia, while in most countries there is voting by mail as an additional alternative to physical presence at the polling stations.

With which leader, who fanatically supported him in the intra-party elections, did Androulakis break up and does not want any contacts? I will not reveal the name, but I will say that it was the “old man” PASOK and a close associate of Androulakis who gave the initiative to me: “It shows that those who underestimate Androulakis are wrong”, as the seemingly reserved PASOK president “knows how to make breakthroughs, covertly or open when required. And as he added to me, perhaps we will see this in the future.

Where is the Samara Foundation stuck?

After the grandiose event of Antonis Samaras in Pallas, everything was ready for the Samaras Foundation to start its work. The former prime minister planned how this launch would go, and his staff worked feverishly in this direction. But there was also the main condition – to find a building for him that belongs to the Greek state, as was done in the case of the funds of Papandreou and Mitsotakis. In the end, the building was found with the personal participation of the Minister of Culture, Linas Mendonis, but then the inanimate Greek bureaucracy intervened, which is paralyzed when something … superpowers is above it. And when will the case be revealed? An experienced government official replied that “when the issue is resolved by order from above.”