By Antonis Anzoletou

For good, the agenda of national issues has entered the pre-election “sprint”. It is something common given the open issues that exist and constantly emerge in the troubled Greek neighborhood. It can yesterday’s Greek-Turkish four-four moved in low tones and apart from the “bra de fer” about the war in Israel the “lights” fell on the lamb ribs, dolmades, halva and baklava of the dinner that followed the statements, however the “knives” in inside they didn’t take long to come out. The opposition would not miss the opportunity to criticize the government for converting the Monastery of Chora into a Mosque.

After all, it was the topic of the day. SYRIZA accused him Kyriakos Mitsotakis how he gave the “green light” to the Turkish president for the illegal conversion of the Monastery of Chora from a Museum to a Mosque, while pointing out that “he did not express his displeasure at the provocative protest of the Turkish Ministry of Defense regarding the marine parks announced by the government in the Aegean and Ionian Sea”.

Nikos Androulakis in his statement accused the prime minister of “waking up late” in relation to the Monastery of Chora. The rest of the parliamentary forces also moved in high tones. It is a fact that the Greek-Turkish agenda will be of considerable concern to the party mechanisms, as it constitutes a new field of criticism and pressure on the government ahead of June 9.

The mobility that exists in the Balkan neighborhood opens up even more the “fan” of national issues. Edi Rama’s visit to Athens and his speech to the Albanian diaspora, exactly one year after Freddy Belleri’s imprisonment, stirred the pre-election “waters” even more. Greek-Albanian relations are not going through their best phase and this has set “fire” in the political scene as well. The opposition blamed the government for the attitude it showed in relation to the presence of the Albanian prime minister in Greece. Yesterday, Pavlos Marinakis spoke about risk management, adding during the briefing to the political editors that “there was no way to prohibit a private visit by a foreign leader”.

Even more “storm” is caused by the dominance of the nationalist VMRO in North Macedonia and the study of the country’s new president, Gordana Silianovska, to call her country “Macedonia” during her inauguration.

In Koumoundourou, they are determined not to let this particular matter pass just like that. THE SYRIZA had significant costs from the conclusion of the Prespa Agreement and the conflict with New Democracy six years before was fierce. According to many in the official opposition, this specific issue cost Alexis Tsipras power with many leaks in Northern Greece.

As had published yesterday, it is a matter of hours for SYRIZA to file a law proposal for the ratification of the three memoranda pending since 2019. As they remind one time the European perspective of North Macedonia and the other the surveillance of the airspace. Given this fact, the conflict is expected to pass through the Parliament as well.