With the presence of the two former prime ministers Samara-Karamanlis in the Dendia speech, the former has been deleted and the second is distant by the current ND leadership, the ND was held yesterday. Unveiling of the National Memory Arkon which all the names of the fallen in favor of the homeland have been carved, with the artistic signature of Kostas Varotsos, in the surrounding area of Pentagon.
The event was attended by former President of the Republic, Prokopis Pavlopoulos and former prime ministers and presidents of ND, Antonis Samaras and Kostas Karamanlis, who also gave intra -party dimension to the unveiling. Especially when the “present” was given to the ceremony hosted by the Minister of National Defense, Nikos Dendia Ministers, MPs and executives from all “blue tribes”, creating an impression of a ND pant. Antonis Samaras and Kostas Karamanliswho appeared together after a while and remained at the ceremony until the end.
Regarding the absence of Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis from the event, government sources clarified that he was unable to attend because he had a meeting with the European Commission’s executive vice -chairman for prosperity and industrial strategy, Stéphane Séjourné.
Progress and maintenance
In honor of the memory of the fallen, the Minister of National Defense, Nikos Dendias He attempted to connect yesterday with today’s place to a single historical and political narrative, saying that “New Greece deserves the sacrifice of those who created it”. In this context, “a strong and clear conjunction is created between tradition and progress. That is, between yesterday and tomorrow. A mixture that responds to what is attempted to be achieved here, with the “agenda 2030”. An opening to the new, the innovative, “Mr Dendias said, reiterating that” progress and maintenance are not opposed. They are the two sides of the coin of Hellenism. “
At the same time, the Minister of National Defense surrounded the coupling between tradition and progress in ideological terms, describing as a pursuit of “integration of the example of self -sacrifice into our national narrative. Especially in the narrative of the new generation of Greeks. “
Identity
According to Mr Dendia, “human life, the existence of man, goes beyond the biological end and acquires meaning and importance if it becomes an element of a timeless collective identity.” “And the collective identity has powerful elements that make it distinct. Otherwise it cannot bother dedication, let alone a sacrifice, “the Minister of National Defense stressed, to list as” identical elements of new Greece “:
; The homeland
; The tongue
; The deliveries
; The religion and
· The family.
“These are. We are. In favor of them the sacrifice. And for them Athanasia, “said Mr. Dendias, adding that” New Greece was reborn with struggles and the existence of new Hellenism was forged with the blood of the Greeks we honor today. And their memory lives in the hearts of all the real Greeks, the guardians of national traditions. “
After all, “it is imperative that tradition coexists with the new one,” the Minister of National Defense and the background of the audience, where they attended both the more “conservative” and more “progressive” voices of the ND, were attended by former prime ministers and former prime ministers and former prime ministers and former prime ministers. Pikrammenos, the Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Greeks, Nikitas Kaklamanis, the former President of the Republic, Prokopis Pavlopoulos, the President of the “Spartan” party Vassilis Stikas, alongside a large number of ministers, MPs, MEPs and executives.
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis was represented by the Deputy Minister of Prime Minister George Mylonakis, while the Minister of Tourism Olga Kefalogiannis, the Minister of Climate Crisis and Civil Protection, Yiannis Kefali, were found in the Pentagon yesterday. Tasos Hatzivasiliou, Deputy Minister of Citizen Protection Yiannis Lambropoulos, Deputy Minister of Justice Yiannis Bougas, Deputy Minister of Rural Development and Food Dionysis Stamenitis, Deputy Minister of Prime Minister George Mylonakis House Athanasios Bouras, MP Symeon Kedikoglou as a spokesman for SYRIZA President Socrates Famellou, MPs of the Greek Parliament, former Ministers of National Defense Nikos Panagiotopoulos and Evangelos Apostolis Apostolis
The ceremony was also part of the President of the Supreme Court Ioanna Klapa, the President of the Council of State Michalis Pikranos, the President of the Court of Auditors Sotiria Douni, the General Commissioner of the Court of Auditors Stamatis Poulis, the President Evangelia Gaki.
Also present were General General Dimitrios Houpis, Chief of General Staff Lieutenant General Georgios Kostidis, Chief of General Staff Lieutenant General Dimitrios – Eleftherios Quitari PN and Chief of the General Staff (I) Armed Forces officers and students of the Armed Forces Production Schools.
Representatives of the Regional and Local Government were still present, the Bishop of Thespian, Mr. Pavlos as a spokesman for the Archbishop of Athens and all Greece, the Metropolitans of Kifissia, Amarousiou, Oropos and Marathon. Cyril, Peristeri Grigorios, Iliou, Acharnon and Petroupoli Athinagoras, Kaisariani, Byron and Ymittos Daniel, Nea Ionia, Philadelphia, Heraklion and Chalkidonos Gabriel, Hydra, Spetses and Aegina Ephraim, the Catholic Archbishop of Athens Theodoros, Representatives of Xenon Diplomatic Authorities accredited in Greece and followers of defense, Professor of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Costas Varotsos, Armed Forces donors, representatives of bodies and other guests.
During the revelations ceremony, he received the event of Sofia Spiratos, with Alexis Costalas’ narrator.
