In a state of readiness for any… activism in parades across the country is the government, in the shadow and of yesterday’s attack by a group of anti-authoritarians to the former minister Maki Voridis and his family, while they were eating in a restaurant in the heart of Heraklion, Crete.
Said attack brought barrage of support and condemnation from government officials and the PASOKbut many government officials are worried about the climate that is being created. “We are not in 2011 and we are not in 2015,” is the view of a senior government source who believes that society is a long way from such manifestations of anger, but this does not mean that there is no reflection and operational preparation.
Already, her foreshadowing Zois Konstantopoulou that she will attempt to take with her the relatives of the Tempe victims to the platform of the officials of the student parade that is currently taking place at the Syntagma has not gone unnoticed, as has the tension maintained by the president of the Freedom Movement, with a top image her fierce conflict with Dora Bakoyannis and Olga Kefalogiannis at the Conference of the Presidents of the Parliament with the background of the “cutter” for the speeches of the political leaders.
“Whoever intends to obstruct, disrupt, restrict doing anything, especially in the celebration of a national anniversary, should think again and again,” underlined the government representative Pavlos Marinakis a few days ago. The government representative thus echoes the now strategic choice of Mr. Mitsotakis to rekindle his relationship with the audience that gave the ND 40% in two electoral contests and a large part of him estimates that the government is dealing with claims and noisy minorities in a… soft way.
It is no coincidence that government officials invoke the so-called “silent majority”, which does not produce decibels, but demands from the government efficiency. They say, it didn’t go unnoticed the finding of the company Pulse that 46% of citizens agree with the Unknown Soldier amendment, as opposed to 44% who disagree. It is to these citizens that Mr. Mitsotakis and especially as we get closer to the elections.
Rural areas
And while many eyes are on the Constitution parade and how the monument will be guarded, government radars are also on rural county parades, given that farmers and breeders they already announced that they will descend with the tractors on the Constitution on November 11.
Estimates are that there will not be any particular problems, as farmers and ranchers at the end of the day are in turn asking for a solution to the problem of late payments, but on the other hand they are heating up their engines and “straining” the government in the rural counties.
On the subject, the government is systematizing its contacts with the Commissionin order to reach a definitive agreement and unblock payments to the farming world. The deadline that the government faces is specific, as by November 4 the Greek proposal must have been submitted to the Brussels services for evaluation and approval, so that the payments can then be unblocked.
The aim is to have the checks done and the basic advance paid for 2025 by the end of November, otherwise everyone realizes that things will go awry and the atmosphere that will be created will be explosive. And by the end of the year, the bill for the affiliation of OPEKEPE to AADE has been submitted to the Parliament for a vote, so that from 2026 the adaptation to the new data will be fully completed.