By Penelope Galliou

Can the situation in Middle East to attract the attention of the entire international community and the movements of the states of the wider region to be affected by the developments in the flammable zone, however, the Greek government, alongside its vigilance and loud presence in international events, remains committed to the domestic field as well, maintaining high on her agenda, everyday life, but also her political bets, as commented by government officials.

Therefore, in addition to the reforms for which he was committed during the pre-election period and which are already running for approval and implementation for the relief of the citizens, such as the heating allowance that is “current” and also the new electricity allowance for heating needs that comes within the week, the Maximos Palace he prepares for the next day and in the political scene.

And the prime minister may have stated in a recent interview that the successive election contests of 2023 have tired the citizens, and where the government is now focusing is the “everyday ballot”, however 2024 is again an election year.

June’s European elections may seem far away and her political supremacy SW to seem undisturbed, with the “dissolving” happenings in the second most powerful political party, the SYRIZA, but there is no complacency. Piraeus and Megaro Maximou in full coordination are preparing the “election plan” that will run in the upcoming European elections in June, considering that yes, as Kyriakos Mitsotakis himself stated, the elections will be held with a cross and not with a list of candidates, but like all show there will be a division of the territory into constituencies.

The final decisions have certainly not been made and it is being discussed how many districts the country could be “broken” into, but, according to information, three scenarios have fallen on the blue table, in view of the European elections in June. THE first case it is considering a division into seven regions and it will be just like the decentralized administrations today. In other words, we will have Attica, Macedonia – Thrace, Epirus together with Western Macedonia, Thessaly together with Central Greece, the Peloponnese together with Western Greece and the Ionian Sea, and finally the Aegean and Crete separately. The second scenario is that the electoral districts should be six, with the collapse into one district of the Aegean and Crete and the third scenario provides for the constituencies to become five. In this case, the Peloponnese, Western Greece, Epirus and the Ionian will be united in one region.

What is certain, however, is that the MEPs who will be elected in each region will be calculated based on the population of each region, while the possibility is open that the Maximos Palace will, in the end, put a “cutter” on its MEPs who have already been elected for two terms or more . The goal, as commented by government sources, is the renewal of the Euro-group of the ND, while in the event that the restriction in question applies, then many of the current MEPs will not be able to run again. In any case, however, maintaining the “cross” in the European elections has a clear political goal, as the hunt for the cross increases the party’s rallying, as government sources estimate.