By Penelope Galliou

As the polls approach, Kyriakos Mitsotakis strengthens the “fortifications” against the dangers that the ND may face at the ballot box on June 25, now posing targeted dilemmas to each specific audience that he is trying to reach and intercept leaks in other directions. further right or towards the center.

The pressure that has already been recorded in the results of the May elections in certain regions, mainly in Northern Greece, from parties that are positioned “to the right” of the ND, is a visible danger for the blue faction that is regrouping its forces and giving particular weight to them of the regions, as was seen during visit of Kyriakos Mitsotakis to Drama. A district in which the ND fell by 4.49 points compared to the 2019 national elections, registering in May a percentage of 39.41% from 43.9% in 2019.

“We did very well in Drama, but we can do even better,” said the ND president, speaking to the citizens of Drama, calling on them “to join forces, to look here in Drama for our fellow citizens, who may they turned their gaze and ultimately their vote to other parties, possibly some smaller parties that are positioned to the right of New Democracy, and let’s say a very simple conversation to them:

Patriotism in words is easy, patriotism in responsibility and action, however, is measured by results.”

Mr. Mitsotakis even made a special reference to Orthodoxy, which is allegedly being attempted to be exploited mainly by the “NIKI” party and subsequently by the party of Kyriakos Velopoulos, warning “to those who seek to imprison the Orthodox faith in the walls of some small parties, the we answer that Orthodoxy and our faith is much greater and has always been a force of unity and not division of the Greek people. And let’s leave the Church away from politics”, emphasized the ND leader.

However, as the polls draw closer, the dilemmas in all directions will intensify and, as the case may be, they will be targeted towards the respective audiences that are sought to be addressed.

The stable stake, in any case, is and will be the stable government and the strong parliamentary majority which the ND is asking the voters to ratify at the polls on June 25, sealing the corresponding election result of May.

“I imagine that our political opponents would be very satisfied if the ND in the next Parliament had a weak parliamentary majority, if it had 151, 152, 153 MPs. We will not do them any favors. We will have a strong parliamentary majority, with a percentage in the elections which will exceed the percentage we got at the ballot box on May 21” emphasized Kyriakos Mitsotakis speaking to the citizens of Drama, characterizing a strong majority as the necessary condition for the ND to proceed with the “bold changes we have talked about in the Greek people” he said.

“We did not hide our program. We presented it from the first ballot in a very detailed manner,” noted Mr. Mitsotakis, calling on voters to go to the polls, “knowing that only the ND has a convincing proposal for governance. Because the opposition is only interested in is to compete for primacy in the space of the center-left. Only here we are voting for the government, not the opposition,” he noted.

As for the possibility of new elections in August, as left open by Kyriakos Mitsotakis during his interview on state television, it is a risk that will be posed by the ND president himself and the blue executives in the time remaining until the rigging of the ballot box, however, is not expected to become a flag of the blue faction, but will remain as a possibility in public positions as one of the possible scenarios that can cause a loose vote, an “undeniable vote” and which can only be prevented by the popular verdict.

The goal of Piraeus is to “exorcise” complacency, to seal the 40.79% of those it received in the May elections and to finally brake any leaks in any direction, either towards the center or to the right by strengthening smaller parties, the whose entrance into the Parliament will raise the bar of self-reliance or reduce the parliamentary power of the blue faction in the seats of the Parliament.