By Penelope Galliou

Each day that passes is no longer counting down to the first ballot on May 21st and all parties and staffs are now “slanting” the next day, and the associations it will bring.

In the headquarters of Piraeus they look forward to next Sunday night and after the rejection by Kyriakos Mitsotakis, categorically, every cooperation with PASOK estimates that the ND will achieve a percentage that will be the “ticket” to achieve self-reliance with the system of the enhanced proportional second ballot. An estimate that automatically reveals the prime minister’s intentions for the discussions following the elections and the utilization of the exploratory mandate he will receive from the President of the Republic on May 22nd.

After all, the prime minister’s intentions for a possible post-election discussion with Charilaou Trikoupis were repeated in the clearest way during the cross-channel interview he granted from Lavrio, stressing that “with Mr. Androulakis’s PASOK, I have few things to actually discuss, in a we have fundamental disagreements on a number of issues”. “I don’t believe that there is any scope at this moment for any cooperation with PASOK, even if numerically this could lead to a government which would mathematically receive a vote of confidence from the Parliament” he remarked, cutting every bridge with the party of Nikos Androulakis.

However, the findings that it has, according to information, from the latest measurements of Piraeus and Megaro Maximos show that the ND has increased its rally, and its percentages exceed 35%, while the percentages it “sees” are correspondingly for the ND and the team of the US communications adviser to the Prime Minister Stan Greenberg, who works independently with his team and weighs the metrics and analysis for the blue faction.

In this context and hurrying to “capture” the result of May 21, in the possible second ballots, according to government sources, a percentage close to 35% with the system of enhanced proportionality can achieve the goal of self-reliance, which is also the central targeting of the ND and Kyriakos Mitsotakis himself.

Consequently, they estimate in Piraeus that “there is no reason for haggling with Mr. Androulakis, especially when he has declared that he does not want Mr. Mitsotakis as prime minister and identifies with SYRIZA”. This, however, does not mean that the opening that the prime minister himself and other leading figures of the ND have repeatedly addressed to the center and the voters of PASOK will not continue until the time of the ballot box.

“Many of our fellow citizens, who today express a preference for PASOK, I really believe that they do not have a bad opinion of the work that has been done in these four years, nor personally a bad opinion of me as Prime Minister” assessed Kyriakos Mitsotakis, given that it is a common belief of the government officials that the PASOK voter base that remained in the difficult times, when SYRIZA was “squeezing” it into the corner and “grabbing” its officials, do not wish to see Mr. Tsipras as prime minister “from behind door”.

Under these circumstances and with these assessments, the prime minister’s intention, as he himself has stated, is indeed to receive the investigative mandate from the President of the Republic, respecting the dictates of the Constitution, but as everything shows, in the end he will not leverage this command. It will move institutionally, but without bringing results from the utilization of this process, as theoretically the only numerically governmental partner that the ND could approach for the formation of a cooperation government is PASOK, which has however been rejected from the outset and consequently the investigative order will most likely return to Mrs. Sakellaropoulou long before the three days stipulated by the Constitution.

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