Kyriakos Mitsotakis’ official visit to Mount Athos during his prime ministerial term could not come to a more crucial time.
After all, the presence of someone in the “Virgin Mary” offers a unique opportunity for endoscopy and meditation, which he cannot find in the city of the city and amidst obligations.
For Mr. Mitsotakis, his presence in the Athenian state was an opportunity to weigh the data in the OPEKEPE case, which changed the political climate and re -created a problematic environment for the government.
A first assessment of the rolling data received by Maximus Mansion a few days ago coincides with the image that came to light from Pulse’s research on SKAI.
The quantitative losses in ND rates are not memorable, while the situation is not compared to the tragedy of the Tempi. The case, however, is a fluorist – and this is evident in the quality of research, where the government appears “scratched”.
Of course, government officials oppose that about 60% of voters and 90% of ND voters. It recognizes the problem as a inter -party, which is self -evidently included in ND. which has been at the helm of the place for six years, but on the other hand, the responsibility is not divided exclusively.
‘Weapons’
For several days the Maximus Palace has been in crisis management regime.
Mr Mitsotakis from Monday’s cabinet gave the tone, while the first “weapon” in his state of political management was to seek the resignations of Maki Voridis and former Deputy Ministers Tasos Hatzivasiliou, Dionysis Stameniou and Christos Voumisiou and Dionysis
However, society is charged by the dialogues that come to light and undoubtedly do not honor the honor of the political system or to state officials who appear to discuss corrupt producers as gang members.
In this sense, the second and basic “weapon” for the government staff is to activate the mechanism for claiming the amounts paid as non -existent to producers of non -existent or producers who were not entitled to it. The first meetings were already held in the week between officials of the Financial Police and AADE, with both being in line with the Ministry of Rural Development.
The goal is to have a mechanism for checking through cross -checks in the coming weeks, starting with the largest amounts and going down. Indeed, Rural Development Minister Costas Tsiaras said last Friday in Parliament that much of the € 415m fine charged in our country by the European Commission would be paid through the amounts to be recovered and from the general change of management model.
However, executives of the Financial Staff, such as Thanos Petralias responsible for the Fund, appear a bit more … sparingly in their expectations of the amount of the amounts to be recovered. The government also insists in all its tones of OPECEPE’s affiliation to AADE since the beginning of 2026 – this week will be discussed in Parliament and relevant provisions.
The government’s trio of the government, which has been particularly raised by government spokesman Pavlos Marinakis, who were one of the executives who came forward with government vice president Kostis Hatzidakis, was the reminder of the “abscesses” that this government broke. “OPEKEPE abscess and agricultural subsidies, many years of abscess, has not broken and has to break.
The Mitsotaki government broke the abscess of illegal prescription, some of the illegal behaviors, urban planning, with large circuits, of prisons, where in some of the criminal organizations, some of the two -year -olds, who were in the municipal and two -year -olds, Sources.
And they add that the Greek justice is already controlling OPECEPE before the European Public Prosecutor’s Office, with 5,200 natural persons currently and some legal entities are before it. Also, according to the same data, 2,365 people are massively checked for illegal payments with false affidavits after 2019.
The dilemma of pre -trial
Of course, things are not at all rosy for the government, as the upward trend recorded in all polls after April braking and the Maximus Mansion was again managed to manage an unpleasant situation, instead of “pleasant news” for citizens associated with benefits.
Given these, the Maximus Palace still has a dilemma in addressing the given proposal for the establishment of a pre -trial committee that PASOK has announced, as well as the KKE. Today there are two lines of thought in the government staff. One does not exclude the scenario of a pre -trial, but on the basis of the only case file sent to Parliament by the European Public Prosecutor’s Office. The other states that once the government does not find criminal responsibility for political persons, it should not consent to the criminalization of political life.
According to information from “THEMA”, government vice -president Kostis Hatzidakis does not exclude the scenario of a pre -trial investigation in his discussions, and Deputy Minister of Prime Minister George Mylonakis does not close the debate. On the contrary, government spokesman Pavlos Marinakis appears in favor of the toughest line.
Mr Mitsotakis has not made his decision until the time when these lines are written, but higher government sources say that the broader environment of the debate will be crucial. In other words, how many proposals will be submitted by opposition parties and on what categories.
That is, it is extremely likely, if a pre -trial proposal is presented that will include the prime minister with criminal charges -from minor opposition parties -that the Maximus Mansion will lean in favor of the harsh line of rejection of any debate.
However, government sources point out that on the basis of newer discussions, the criminal treatment of politicians will be “pack”, that is, it seems difficult to separate as much as different ballots are set up. It should be noted inside the New Democracy Parliamentary Group. Nervousness has been reconciled after a period of lullaby, with several MPs estimating that it will be difficult to avoid a pre -trial. Two MPs, Stelios Petsas and Maximos Harakopoulos, have been in favor of further investigation by the House in order not to paralyze the work of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office and remain in the case.
The Voridis – Avgenaki Station
It is obvious that there will be developments this week, while the Maximos Palace holds an open line with the two former ministers, Maki Voridis and Lefteris Avgenakis. Both have not been placed in the discussion in recent days, but through circles are placed in the various accusations that are attributed to them.
Makis Voridis continues to dismiss any criminal responsibility and states that he has taken on his resignation. Lefteris Avgenakis also believes that he has no criminal involvement, and is of the opinion that dealing with the two former ministers should be unified.
As to the deposition of former OPEKEPE President Gregory Varra, who is aggravating for the former minister, circles close to Mr Voridis say that their conflict was political and add that Mr Varras does not give his testimonial evidence that he would say.
Also, the same circles note that it does not seem to be asked by the European Prosecutor about the meeting they had before resigned. For the deposition of former OPEKEPE Governor Vangelis Simandrakos, the same circles say that at the first meeting in Maximus, in November 2023, he was made clear that he would have to make payments and resign by the end of the year, while his name is the end of the year. They wonder how it is done and no telephone communication is included in the in question.
At the same time, circles from Mr Avgenakis’ environment are saying that he has all the information needed to substantiate his actions while head of the Ministry of Rural Development. The former minister characterizes his conflict with Mr Simandrakos, while his environment also leaves spikes for the payments made by OPEKEPE on the days of Mr Simandrakos – and even at a time made without the intersection system provided for by DG AGRI.
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