By Penelope Galliou

Holy Week may not include tours of the prime minister outside the walls, where he will return again immediately after Easter, but in the context of his contact with the citizens and the problems they face, it is not excluded that he will be in the market for the question of punctuality and dealing with it, while the contacts with his deputies continue in the context of the “instructions” and directions given by the prime minister in view of the pre-election period.

The last meeting of the initiative of Kyriakos Mitsotakis to see his MPs by region is expected to take place today, while yesterday afternoon Kyriakos Mitsotakis met with the MPs of Macedonia and Thrace.

The meeting lasted for about 1.5 hours in a good atmosphere as the latest measurements arriving at Megaros Maximos also send positive messages and seem to show an increase in blue crowding, in the disputed areas that are causing problems for leaks to parties to the right of the ND. According to information, the northern Greek parliamentarians were asked – like all executives across Greece – to personally mobilize in their constituencies, and direct contacts and communication with their voters in order to explain to them the high stakes of the elections, but also to build bridges. re-approaching the party’s disaffected traditional voters.

Megaros Maximos seeks to more emphatically display the government’s work, which, as it emphasizes, is multifaceted and has significant and measurable results to show.

At the same time, the European character of the ballot box dictates that the recent successes with the establishment of the Recovery and Resilience Fund and the brave financing of Greece with 36 billion euros, the new pact on migration and asylum, the interventions for the Common Agricultural Policy etc.

“”Our guides are always the verbs “listen” and “try”. With this admonition, the Prime Minister closed his public statement during the meeting of the Council of Ministers, shortly before the government officials listen and talk to the citizens in the regions of the country, where they will be during the Easter days. A period that acquires even greater weight, as the time until the European elections decreases and every contact with the citizens must transmit the messages that the government wants to communicate with basically stability and continuity.

A major factor, however, in this election as well, is expected to be the voter turnout rate, with abstention being a “thorn” and a cause for concern. The Prime Minister himself expressed this while speaking to his Ministers, whom he invited to make use of the remaining time until June 9 in order to explain to the citizens “the adventures that can be brought by abstinence from the one, a misguided, frivolous choice from the another, without letting the lies of the opposition poison the citizens, nor the individual complaints – which always exist – cloud the overall progress of the country” as he pointed out.

The concern in Megaros Maximos seems to be strengthened even more by the “unbridled populism of the opposition parties”, as government sources say, with the big-mouthed promises and free benefits, which sound like sirens in the ears of the voters, say the same sources and although recognize that citizens are affected by the prolonged accuracy emphasize that this is certainly not addressed by the opposition’s priceless proposals. Kyriakos Mitsotakis, on this, spoke of “leftist trees”, which I see growing with even greater speed in the official opposition’s garden, calling on the Ministers to speak the language of truth against them. “To oppose the many dykes that we raise in price increases, with extraordinary interventions, but mainly with the permanent increases in salaries and pensions, in basic salaries and in benefits. Our goal remains the same: minimum wage at 950 euros and average wage at 1,500 euros in 2027, at the end of the four-year period,” underlined the prime minister.

“So we stay by the citizen’s side in every way, recognizing that accuracy is still the big problem facing Greek society today and that, yes, we may not have reached where we want yet, in terms of health, education or in the state, but we must remember the important steps that are being taken everywhere: from defense, immigration, anti-violence measures, the significant successes of the Greek Police, to the economy, major projects, the digitization of the State” concluded Kyriakos Mitsotakis.