If I understood correctly from the relevant reports, the much-publicised meeting of the ND C.O. was not a field of debate or a battlefield, as was announced.
The MEPs spoke, raised their concerns and sent out a message of unity. The exact same thing had happened a few days before, when it was written that there would be a guerrilla in the vote on the waiver of immunity for MPs. In short, another tempest in a teacup. Somewhere, though, this joke about turbulence has to stop. MPs are under pressure from citizens, have thoughts, problems and perhaps even different perceptions.
This is how the two major party factions were built in the post-independence period, however much the post-independence party system moved from the pre-dictatorship phase of agent parties to parties of structure, principle and function, although they borrowed a little from the model of the K.C.C.E. which operated and operates with democratic centralisation. Remnants still exist. Go to an American congressman or senator and talk about party discipline. He’ll look at you like you’re V.I. Lenin.
However, NWD MPs seemed to understand that they are headed for a tough fight and that now is not the time to remember what they like and don’t like. They showed that at a time when the opposition is attacking every day, albeit unconvincingly, they cannot help but fight. In 10 months at the most, if the Prime Minister’s statements about the timing of the elections hold true, there will be very crucial elections for the country, the government, and themselves. So they spoke, they were not silent, but showed their determination to fight. In a few days the Congress of the New Democracy is also taking place and I think the message will be even stronger, even though the former prime minister K. Karamanlis is missing.
About the former prime minister I don’t understand what is going on. It is written that he is troubled, that he has concerns about national issues. The same sort of stigma is emitted by A. Samaras, who no longer belongs to the Southwest. He is also worried. It is difficult to understand their concern or even their disagreement with government policy.
Do they agree with the arms or the energy deals? Do they disagree with strategic agreements with the US, with France or with Israel; How do they feel Greece is isolated and in danger, when the Turks themselves describe themselves as roughly surrounded by the moves Greece has made? Did they want a multi-dimensional foreign policy p.e.g. to keep a balance with Putin’s Russia when it brutally invaded Ukraine;
It would be nice if they could explain it more clearly, because it’s as if they are saying nothing, when they have made so many speeches at book launches. It would be useful for A. Samaras to do so, to understand why he is thinking of forming a party, when he also counts 3%-3.5% in the potential vote in the very likely vote for one of his own parties. Because I can’t believe he’ll make a party with a factually burnt and unconvincing national agenda, nor why with the 380 or so same-sex marriages that have taken place since 2024 when the law was passed, the nuclear family has supposedly been altered.
It would be much more helpful if K. Karamanlis, who remains in ND, because neither his absence from the ND Congress, nor his continuous interventions, when he was silent for years, when he did not intervene even in the critical hours of 2015, at a time when his close associates enjoyed important state, political offices under the SYRIZA-ANEL government, cannot be explained.
We are a small country and we actually know more than the exes from both ND, and other parties think. And it is good that they speak, criticize, but at the same time understand that the yin and yang and half words do not make anything good first of all for themselves.
*This article was published at liberal.gr
