The government’s suffocating pressure on KINAL and the role of the ‘cautious neutral’

By Dimitris Gatsios

With Kyriakos Mitsotakis insisting, once again, that the elections will take place at the end of four years, the government, in the aftermath of the fierce opposition in Parliament for the motion of censure of SYRIZA, delimits the strategy of the next day. And this strategy, as is becoming quite clear in both the Prime Minister’s public speeches and discussions with high-ranking officials, includes promoting a positive agenda and reforms in a number of critical areas, such as the economy and social policy, as well as highlighting of the produced work to the citizens.

Megaro Maximou and Kyriakos Mitsotakis are determined not to follow the party of the official opposition on the path of polarization. “In the toxicity of the days, in the divisive discourse of our opponents, we compare moderation, our programmatic discourse and especially our projects. And I will insist very much not to deviate from this course at all …

As much as some people think that 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 place, we want to put even more emphasis on social cohesion and the support of the weakest “, was the message conveyed by the Prime Minister, during his tour in Thessaloniki. A tour that… raised the curtain of the next wave of contact with citizens in the regions of the country, at a time when another aspect of government planning is of particular interest, and this is none other than the suffocating and, on an almost daily basis, pressure on the Movement for Change and Nikos Androulakis to take clear positions on major issues on the political agenda, abandoning the “balcony of cunning ambiguity”.

The target is equal distances

What is commonly called the ο grace period in the new leadership of Charilaou Trikoupi has passed, as everything shows, definitively in the past. The first … orbital shot had come in the interview of Kyriakos Mitsotakis three weeks ago on the ANT1 television station.

“You asked me about Mr. Androulakis. I do not have much to say to you because I have not heard much. “I understood from what he said, ‘Come on, time is ahead,'” the prime minister had said.

The choices of the Movement for Change and Mr. Androulakis regarding the position of Charilaou Trikoupi on the motion of censure of SYRIZA were the second part of the episode. “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 that end in wishes Realistic measures, costed, adapted to the current conditions, you will not be able, ladies and gentlemen of KINAL-PASOK, to stay on the balcony for a long time with your leader giving vague interviews. Unfortunately, I did not hear such specific proposals during these However, I would expect that your declarations of an autonomous course would eventually lead to an autonomous stance, to a differentiated speech and a similar vote. “You had the choice to differentiate yourself, you fully agreed with the motion of censure of SYRIZA”, said Mr. Mitsotas κης.

The conflict, however, culminated, 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.

“In the face of an unprecedented incident, for Mr. Polakis to blatantly violate the Rules of Procedure of the Parliament and turn the step into a field of activism, and for Mr. Ragousis to adopt and support this attitude, the political forces must take a clear position. No one can keep equal distances between Mr. Polakis and SYRIZA on the one hand and the rules of democracy and parliament on the other, because equal distances mean identification with the polarization of SYRIZA and this is detrimental to democracy. KINAL has chosen the role of “smart neutral”. The party micro-budget prevails over institutional responsibility. from the European Parliament, it is not meant to keep equal distances “, is the message conveyed by government officials.

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 in a toxic climate between New Democracy and SYRIZA to win, baptizing the silence serious attitude.

“He must take a stand. Instead, Charilaou Trikoupi has not been able to say a single word about his executives who were brutally attacked, due to SYRIZA’s choice to target political opponents with the Novartis case,” government officials said. , with the strategic goal to be clearly related to the political Center that will judge the autonomy in the next electoral contests.