Government strategy with a prize of the Center

By Dimitris Gatsios

“In the toxicity of the day, in the divisive discourse of our opponents, we are comparing moderation, our programmatic discourse and especially our projects. And I will insist very much that we do not deviate from this course at all … they can turn Greece back to 2012, the Greece of 2022 has turned its back on them because we have learned from our sufferings as a country, we want to look ahead, we want to progress, we want to open a new development page for the country “.

Through this particular aversion, Kyriakos Mitsotakis gives the signal to flee forward, after a period that was limited by the … falsity in the management of the snow and the harsh policy against the Parliament for the motion of censure of SYRIZA.

Middle class and vulnerable

The first wave of positive news came with the announcements for the new permanent reduction of ENFIA by 13%, which exceeds the commitment for total relief by 30%. At the same time, the messages for the continuous support of employees and companies, but also for further

bases in the direction of reducing taxes and levies, are continuously broadcast by the government staff, in a momentum that may not … smell the ballot box (the Prime Minister still

to place them at the end of the four years), but it is the beginning of the next cycle of implementation of “blue” election announcements. As pointed out by associates of Kyriakos Mitsotakis, other permanent arrangements have preceded.

Such as lower tax rates, the suspension of the solidarity contribution in the private sector, the zeroing of the tax on parental benefits, the double Guaranteed Income of December and the increased benefits for low-income retirees.

Limits the next steps

Knowing well (as it appeared in the three days of the Plenary Session) that SYRIZA and Alexis Tsipras will constantly raise the tones of their criticism, Megaro Maximou and the Prime Minister shape the strategic moves of the next day.

And this strategy, as it becomes absolutely clear both in the public interventions of Mitsotakis and in the discussions with government officials, includes:

– Promoting a positive agenda and reforms in a number of critical areas, such as the economy, social policy, health, education, security, diplomacy and defense.

-The promotion of the produced work to the citizens, through a new cycle of tours in the regions of the country.

In this context of interventions for the benefit of society, with the focus mainly on the middle class and vulnerable groups (the announcements for ENFIA were the trigger), agents say that in no case will the government follow Koumoundourou on the street, as it is called, of polarization. “This morbid image that we saw both in the Polakis incident and in the statements of Tasia Christodoulopoulou is in complete contradiction with our own political culture and confirms, for the umpteenth time, the value gap that separates the two sides,” they comment.

With the main opposition party unable to reap even a small part of the New Democracy’s expected after 31 months in government, what can not go unnoticed is another aspect of government planning.

And this is none other than the suffocating and, on a daily basis, pressure on the Movement for Change and Nikos Androulakis to leave the “balcony of cunning ambiguity”.

And the … battle for the political Center, which will judge the autonomy in the, apparently, double upcoming ballots, passes to its next phase.

The end of the … grace period

The relationship between the government and the Movement for Change is now obvious that it is entering a different trajectory, with the period of grace towards the new leadership of Charilaou Trikoupi passing into … political oblivion.

The choices of the Movement for Change and Mr. Androulakis regarding the position on the motion of censure of SYRIZA were the … first part of the next day. “Although with the official opposition it is now known that we are separated by chaos, political, moral, aesthetic gap, I would expect a more positive response and more creative proposals from KINAL. And I explain: not general principles and easy slogans, which end in “Realistic measures, costed, adapted to the current conditions. You will not be able, ladies and gentlemen of KINAL-PASOK, to stay for a long time on the balcony with your leader giving clever interviews”, said Kyriakos Mitsotakis. The … drums of the collision increased the volume of his echo on the occasion of the episode starring Pavlos Polakis. “Equal distances mean identification with the polarization of SYRIZA. This harms not the New Democracy, but the Democracy itself …”, government officials said. And the peaks for a Movement for Change in the role of “smart neutral” give and take.

What they note in the government, clearly showing that the pressure on Charilaou Trikoupi will intensify day by day, is that the Movement for Change can not hide, hoping for a toxic climate between New Democracy and SYRIZA to win, baptizing the silence serious attitude. Megaro Maximou, therefore, is … clearly visible that, in every political opportunity (as was the case with Pavlos Polakis), it will crush Nikos Androulakis and the leading team of KINAL, in order to take clear positions on the big issues that concern the citizens and the country. In this way, Charilaou Trikoupi will either align with Koumoundourou and follow the positions of SYRIZA, going to the left of the Center, or will be closer to the positions of New Democracy, a fact that can also be used politically by “blue” faction when the dilemma of the elections reaches “Mitsotakis or Tsipras”.

Republished from the “Chapter” that is circulating