By Penelope Galliou

On today’s Europe Day, the ND chose to broadcast a strong symbolism for the European perspective and stability of the country and a clear message of unity from Zappeio, where the last three prime ministers of the blue faction will be present just twelve days before the polls are set up.

Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Antonis Samaras and Kostas Karamanlis will attend and all three will speak in the same place, at a moment that is highly decisive for the course of the country, just before the elections of May 21st, sending a common message of support within the faction but also to society for the country’s perspective and course and essentially turning an anniversary fiesta into an event with a strong political stigma.

The three prime ministers are expected to take the stage in chronological order, with Kostas Karamanlis taking the floor first, followed by Antonis Samaras, so that Kyriakos Mitsotakis will close last.

According to information, the idea of ​​the event with this particular “composition” fell on the table of the group that organizes the ND pre-election campaign, finding a response from Kyriakos Mitsotakis himself, who himself undertook to contact the two former prime ministers in order to extends the invitation, to which they finally responded.

After all, Kostas Karamanlis had already committed, after his departure from the “parliamentary stage” for a joint appearance with the prime minister in Thessaloniki ahead of the elections, which will take place during the speech of Kyriakos Mitsotakis in Thessaloniki, but in the meantime it also emerged the event in question by Zappeius.

According to information from the ex-prime minister’s entourage, Mr. Karamanlis is expected to refer to today’s Europe with its challenges, failures and blunders, but at the same time, twelve days before the elections, he is expected to send a message of unity and support internally of the ND, as the only party that can guarantee the political stability of the country, giving particular emphasis to economic issues.

European politics and current challenges are expected to be at the center of Antonis Samaras’ speech, for whom the event has an additional historical and emotional “weight”, as he was also present at the EEC accession ceremony in 1979, aged just 29. then, as Minister of Foreign Affairs in 1992, he co-signed the Maastricht Treaty, while during the period of the economic crisis he contributed to the problems of Greece staying in Europe, when even this perspective of the country was in danger. Today, Antonis Samaras together with Yiannis Tragakis are the only MPs from the ND parliamentary group who participated in the EEC accession ceremony and who still remain in Parliament.

However, Mr. Samaras is expected to refer to the current pre-election political developments, raising in turn the dilemmas of the ballot box and the stakes of the country’s stability and perspective, a “companion” of Kyriakos Mitsotakis, as he did recently and during the recent tour of the prime minister in Kalamata where he is a member of parliament and will be a candidate again, leading the “blue” ballot.