By Penelope Galliou

Acceleration of the procedures and a flight forward is what the government seeks, regarding the legalization of the marriage of same-sex couples starting from the week that starts today.

The meeting is expected to cut the thread ministrial Council tomorrow, Tuesday, where the bill in question will be tabled and is expected to receive approval for their promotion to the Parliament. In the meantime, it is expected to be put to a public consultation and when it is completed and possible improvements or corrections are made to the original text that the government will make public, then it will then be submitted to the Parliament and its vote, based on the timetable he gave the prime minister in an interview with Bloomberg, will take place within the first fortnight of February.

Until, however, the day of the passing of the bill out of its 300 Parliamentgovernment sources state that the ferments and processes for the “persuasion” operation towards the dissidents will continue, despite the completion of the information procedures made in the party through Ministers and scientists, on the arrangements that the bill will bring.

At the moment, however, the final picture that the ND parliamentary group will present during the passage of the bill remains a puzzle for strong solvers, given that the party has been divided into three main categories and one sub-category.

In particular, there are the MPs who will vote in favor of the bill and constitute the large majority, which may reach close to 100 MPs.

The second category is the “pure” dissenters, that is, those who, despite the information and explanations, are categorically opposed to the bill and are determined to vote against it. A number that can reach or exceed 20. Among them are Antonis Samaras, Thanos Pleuris, Evripidis Stylianidis, Kostas Karagounis, Maximos Harakopoulos, Kostas Giulekas, Andreas Katsaniotis, Anna Karamanli, Thanasis Davakis, Charalambos Athanasiou, Miltos Chrysomallis, Yiannis Lampropoulos, Periklis Mantas, Theofilos Leontaridis, Marios Salmas, George Karasmanis, Xenophon Baraliakos, Stefanos Gikas, Vassilis Yogiakas, Theodoros Karaoglou.

The third category concerns the undecided and is divided into two, as it includes MPs who have reservations and are between voting against and abstaining and those who are between voting in favor and abstaining. This category is even estimated by government sources to be the reservoir that will further “fuel” the positive votes, even raising them above 110. “I believe that those who will vote in favor will be more than those who started from the authority” declared a government official.

In any case, the cases of government officials who, either by abstaining or by voting against, decide to express their disagreement with the bill are considered “special handling”. The most “shaking” case remains the attitude of the Minister of State, Makis Voridis, who has an immovable attitude, while the question remains what will be done by the Deputy Ministers Yiannis Kefalogiannis, Stavros Keletsis and Maria Kefala who have reservations but have not clarified their attitude.

Correspondingly, however, neither the Maximos Palace has opened his cards, in terms of dealing with the dissidents in question, although a government official hinted that the crisis for the government officials will be a result of their overall attitude and not only from their position on a bill. “The attitude towards the government is not judged by an individual issue, it is judged by the government’s policy as a whole” he commented.