By Penelope Galliou

With the priorities of internal politics recorded on his agenda, the prime minister returns from Davos accelerating the reforms for which he has committed himself before the elections and intends to launch already in the first two months of the year, adding to the pre-election quiver of the European elections those reforms that will improve key areas of citizens’ daily lives.

In this context and weighing the climate both within the ND and in society, the government is proceeding to speed up the tabling and passing of the bill for same-sex couples. Hence, it is expected to speed up the convening of the Council of Ministers, which was supposed to take place on January 30 but seems to be coming a week earlier, on Tuesday the 23rd. After all, this is also the last available date of next week, before he leaves on Wednesday the prime minister for New York and the Athens Stock Exchange roadshow, while he will then go to Chicago, where he will have meetings with the diaspora.

THE Kyriakos Mitsotakis considers that both he and the government officials who assumed the relevant “role” have now shed light on all aspects of the controversial bill that cause reservations either within the party, or in society, or in the Church, after the meeting that had with Archbishop Hieronymos, and it is judged that the time has come to proceed with the proceedings. The goal is to reach the Parliament and pass the bill within February, putting an end to the perpetual debate between supporters and dissenters, which now seems to be of no help to the essence of the case.

Besides, Megaros Maximos wishes to end the grumbling and embarrassment caused by the bill for same-sex couples within its parliamentary group and also in part of its base, so that it can regroup immediately and quickly in front of the new goal which is the European elections in June.

After all, government officials and the prime minister himself are slowly entering the pre-election trajectory and want to bring back the public debate “to the big and small issues, which essentially shape the everyday life of every Greek woman and every Greek man” as Kyriakos Mitsotakis said in Agia Friday talking to citizens.

Kyriakos Mitsotakis also sent the first messages for the European elections in June from Davos, Switzerland, where speaking with the editor-in-chief of the magazine “Foreign Policy” Ravi Agrawal, he emphasized that “What we have to explain to the citizens is that there are no obvious solutions and that what is presented as an easy solution is usually a solution that cannot be implemented in practice. So, in terms of our own history, we kept our commitments, we focused on the economy.” A goal and a bet that always remains “active” for the government, which prioritizes the everyday life of the citizen and its continuous improvement, despite the circumstances and difficulties that may arise.

The Greek prime minister also referred to the triptych that the government policy focuses on “on economic development, being responsible patriots, while at the same time being progressive when it comes to issues in which we must align with the way in which society itself progresses” considering that this political commitment “worked well for Greece”. Kyriakos Mitsotakis, on the occasion of the European elections, found, however, that “there is no magic recipe. And every country has its own particularities. The political systems are different, the electoral systems are different. But this is definitely a strategy that has worked well for us”. In fact, he estimated that “this is also a kind of strategy that should be adopted by the European People’s Party when we fight in the next European elections, in a few months from now. And we hope that we will again be the largest party in the European Parliament” he said .

By the time the Eurocalp is set up, however, the government is expected to have put a “check” on a series of key reform bills such as the establishment of postal voting, which is already being discussed in the Parliament, the operation of non-state universities in our country, changes in the Judiciary for the acceleration of its award, the package of measures to combat the so-called fan violence and the arrangements to deal with arbitrary construction. Reforms, which are expected to act as reinforcements and improvements in all important aspects for citizens’ lives and will send the message that the government implements what it commits to.