The Maximos Mansion will move in the immediate future towards further communicative investment in the announcements made by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis in Thessaloniki, in an attempt to counterbalance the upcoming new revelations expected regarding OPEKEPE, as well as the prevailing atmosphere concerning the creation of new political entities by both Antonis Samaras and Alexis Tsipras.
Mitsotakis: The government strategy to strengthen the governmental message
You see, it is common ground within the government leadership circles that, on one hand, the positive news that Kyriakos Mitsotakis brought to Thessaloniki has not been adequately perceived and, on the other hand, great efforts have been made from various sides to diminish them in citizens’ consciousness. Consequently, the support of all government officials, as well as members of the Parliamentary Group, has already been openly requested in order to achieve the goal of effectively transmitting messages at the societal level and to cultivate, after a long time, an image of unity and cohesion of the ruling party.
Internal reactions to Loverdos’ integration into New Democracy
Moreover, it should not be forgotten that on this particular front, beyond the case of Antonis Samaras and his new intervention against the government regarding Tempi, a simultaneous murmur has begun regarding the integration of Andreas Loverdos into New Democracy, with proponents of the right turn expressing their dissatisfaction with this transfer, both in their private discussions and in the public sphere.
The central argument of these circles is that the era of inherently successful openings to the Center-Left has irreversibly passed and that the needs of the current situation are now very different. Apart from the fact that, according to the same analyses, the former top PASOK minister has very different characteristics from other officials who followed the same path earlier. Given that he reached the point of claiming leadership of the once powerful Movement.
The choice of Charakopoulos and the search for balance
Indeed, the balancing in the field of symbolism with the almost parallel choice of Maximos Charakopoulos, one of the “rebels” of the government majority and known for his Karamanlis sentiments, for the position of secretary of New Democracy’s Parliamentary Group, far from eliminating the aforementioned objections, even if they did not take the dimension that some might have expected.
Otherwise, the parameter of New Democracy remaining in all polls at European election levels (in the vote estimation index) constitutes, based on the assessments of the prime ministerial staff, a good foundation to begin this critical winter season, which will play a decisive role in the balances that will be formed until election time, especially since no serious rival threat has yet emerged for the governing party and Kyriakos Mitsotakis.
Published in Parapolitika
