With reference to the instructions given for the heat wave “Cleon” the Minister of the Interior, Ms. Niki Kerameoswho was a guest in the morning on SKAI, on the “Today” show.

“Special instructions have been given for the entire State, with a distinction between employees who belong to vulnerable groups and those who do not. Those who belong to a vulnerable group, the first directive is for teleworking and where this is not possible, there is a special permission granted and regarding the rest there is flexible hours, adjustment of arrival and departure time. Those citizens whose appointment is canceled with a service will of course be informed and it will be changed.

For the University Police, Mrs. Kerameos emphasized: “I don’t want to get into other portfolios, but I think it was clarified yesterday that it will continue to exist in order to protect the universities. Let me remind you that we had daily incidents and now we have passed into a phase where we don’t have that many.”

With regard to the expatriate votes bill, Mrs. Kerameos emphasized that: “He will be in consultation until Monday. It is a highly symbolic bill. Until 2019, Greek citizens registered in the electoral rolls who lived or are living abroad, or happened to be abroad on election day, could not vote.

It is an issue that we have been discussing for over 40 years, almost 50. In 2019 the ND government brought a regulation that says what? If you are a Greek citizen and live abroad or will be abroad on election day, you will be able to vote.

However, because an increased majority was needed for this law to take effect, 200 of the 300 deputies as a minimum, within the framework of the formation of this majority, some compromises were made. Restrictions were introduced, for example you must have made a tax return this year and last year, you must have lived 2 of the last 15 years in Greece, etc. This resulted in only 18,000 voting.

Now all the restrictions are gone, the one we brought in 2021 as well. That is: Do you have the right to get on a plane and go vote in Greece? Then you have the right to vote from abroad. We brought this bill, it was passed by the ND and PASOK and the Hellenic Solution. These parties today number over 200 MPs.

A contact was made with PASOK, but let me remind you that they have voted for exactly the same bill. There are some who have already spoken positively about it like Victory and Freedom Sailing, so there is a positive mood. It is a cross-party issue. It has to do with the respect we show to the everywhere Hellenism.

He would argue against the principle of the equality of the vote, that the votes of Greeks abroad do not count the same. How can it count differently? It is not an honor with such Hellenism that only 18,000 people vote.”

Regarding the first days of the new government, Mrs. Kerameos emphasized: “The government runs at all levels. All the colleagues have taken the blue envelopes and they are all running. We have a clear mandate from the prime minister to carry out our pre-election commitments one by one.

Likewise in the Ministry. Interior what we do has a common component, the service of the citizen. As far as ASEP is concerned, the faster the recruitments are made in the State, this means that the teacher will be found in the school, the nurse in the hospital, the employee in the KEP. At our center is the citizen. Everything we do is done to provide better services from end to end, throughout Greece”.