Elections: Mitsotakis ruled them out – Scenarios of reshuffle

By Antonis Anzoletou

Twice he closed the “door” in early elections Kyriakos Mitsotakis canceling the circulating scripts. First in Parliament. Answering to Alexis Tsipras made it clear that the polls will be held at the end of the four-year period. Yesterday on SKAI radio, speaking to Vassilis Chiotis and Pavlos Tsimas, the prime minister made an argument, stressing first of all that he is not looking for a polling clearing to hold elections while calling the simple analog a “bomb”. “It will not be possible to form a government. After the first ballot the country will find itself with a caretaker government. In a difficult period we have a government that has a strong parliamentary majority and my obligation is to ensure the stability of the country and the governability which today is assured”. Kyriakos Mitsotakis added that “if I have any political costs from this, because we will have a difficult winter ahead of us, I did not hide it, I am absolutely willing to take it on because I will never play with the institutions, endanger stability of the country to serve the “interest” of my re-election.”

The Prime Minister did not put asterisks on the issue of the election causing intense reflection to those who had discounted them for September. Does this mean that the parties, including the ND, will stop moving at pre-election rates? In no case. After all, the blue faction is the only parliamentary force that has been officially announcing its candidates for a long time. This was, after all, the first “bell” that had rung for the possibility of appealing to the popular verdict earlier.

There is, of course, the risk that the candidate MPs will “burn” in the warm-up if the elections are held at the end of the government’s term. If by the end of August or even at the TIF there is no surprise, it is considered certain that the executives of Piraeus, as well as the other parties, will be forced to hit the brakes. Such a long election campaign is tiring for them as well, but above all for the electorate.

Everything shows that the “papers” of its abolition solidarity levy for pensioners and civil servants since the beginning of the year, as well as the unfreezing of pensions for the first time after 12 years, the prime minister does not want to “burn” them so easily. He believes that if the polls are held in the spring of 2023, these two moves along with some other additional ones will gnaw away at any damages the government will present during the winter. Maximos’ concern until 2023 is to support households and businesses against energy precision, announcing fuel pass 3, as well as an enhanced heating allowance. In the same interview with SKAI, he left open the possibility of receiving money even in installments for 1.3 million pensioners who were not vindicated by the decision of the Council of State regarding the retroactive cuts in supplementary pensions and gifts (May 2015 – June 2016) because they did not have take legal action. At the same time, his decision to hold the elections in the Spring of 2023 significantly strengthens his institutional profile.

The transformation

Those who argue that when the “door” of early elections closes, its “window” opens restructuring they are not wrong. The move that would quash any thought of a poll in September would be a cabinet reshuffle that would give the government a fresh start before it moves into the final turn. Kyriakos Mitsotakis, so far, has not proceeded with any structural restructuring. He had preferred to make only corrections to the ministerial scheme. Unless the prime minister, with this double relinquishment he made, wishes to regain the advantage of surprise. He closed the conversation only to open it himself whenever he wishes, finding the opposition parties in partial hypnosis.

To SYRIZA party sources estimate that if Kyriakos Mitsotakis does not call elections for September, it will be for tactical reasons. They argue that if the polling companies’ differences were valid then “he would have held elections to win them without any stress”.

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