PROBLEM

Cooperation with ANEL in 2015-2019 was a mess and apparently the Greek solution of Kyriakos Velopoulos is yogurt, because it is blown on and it does not cool down. This is the only way to explain yesterday’s panarmy of SYRIZA in order to refute the statement of Kostas Zurari (which you also read yesterday here) about the possibility of cooperation SYRIZA-Velopoulos a la SYRIZA-ANEL. Mr. Zuraris presented this as something like “business as usual”, which clearly worried Kumundura. Among the old members of the party, Dimitris Vitsas, the candidate for the Western Sector of the Second Athens, categorically ruled out (Parapolitika 90.1) any possibility of cooperating with the Greek solution. And on this occasion, he asked the voters of SYRIZA to answer the polls.

ACCIDENT

Pretense or not, but it arose when SYRIZA took advantage of the statement of the president of Attica Petrol Dealers, Maria Zaga, about the excise tax (excise duty) on fuel. Ms. Zaga, the ND candidate in the southern sector of Athens, he stated that with the EFK the “para-state” is preferred, and SYRIZA did not ignore this. “Mitsotakis’ refusal to cut the fuel tax infuriates even his parliamentary candidates,” SYRIZA spokesman Popi Tsapanidou said in a related statement. In the media friendly to SYRIZA, a staging of Zagi’s case followed, with information about her possible expulsion. However, there was no mood in the ND until late at night to exclude Ms. Zaga from the ballot. In any case, as president of gas stations, Ms. Zaga is taking a strong stance against the fuel excise tax, some sources said. However, on the part of SYRIZA, they have done everything possible to keep this matter secret.

FACE

Known-unknown midnight panelist. Candidates for deputies during this period still work overtime, which is quite reasonable. Yesterday’s topic was the translation of the debate. What did the political leaders want to say? The journalists who participated in the debate had already warned in advance about the form that this presentation of parallel monologues eventually took, which some followed out of perversion, and others (as a writer) out of professional duty. After 12 noon, discussion and analysis began on all TV channels by deputies, leaders and journalists who sought to tell about everything that ended up being left behind the scenes. Debate as a television product is perfectly normal to provoke discussion about it. Television is, by definition, a self-referential medium. The debate will certainly continue today. In the highly televised countries of Western Europe, debates about debates are rare, but here we will encounter them again. Of course, today, on the day of the second semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest, where, among other things, the participation of Greece in the Saturday final organized by the UK and the winner of Ukraine in Liverpool are judged, I do not know how much television time can be devoted to the results of yesterday’s debate.

PLACE

Villa Zografou, where the PASOK candidate in the South Sector of the 2nd Athens Regiment Pavlos Christidis exclaimed: “One villa on Tinos, another villa on Paros. We are in the only villa where you could find us, the Zografu villa.” The lawyer, a former PASOK spokesman, is used to short slogans that can be easily played on social media. They cannot be successful every time. In this art, by far, the best teacher is none other than Markos Seferlis, whose fame many envied. However, Mr Christidis is campaigning in a tricky constituency where PASOK barely won 5.72% as the fourth party in 2019, below the KKE and not much above MePA25.

ATTACK

“Weak governments are those that do not have a reform agenda. I fear that a weak government of any form will only be able to absorb funds from the European Union and distribute them to their own children,” Pavlos Gerulanos, a PASOK candidate in Athens and a man who happened to be very close to the highest political echelons, told (FM Communication). authorities. And he certainly knows that the spread of European programs to mothers is not something under threat, but a ghost from the not too distant past. The question, however, is where these famous reform forces exist.