By Penelope Galliou

Final stretch from today for the European elections of June 9, as there are only five days of pure political time left to culminate the election campaign and the messages that citizens will weigh before the ballot box, for the management and promotion of all major European issues concerning and our country.

In the final sprint, the prime minister continues to have the first role with tours and speeches throughout Greece, in critical “fortresses” for the blue faction that wants to maintain its high percentages or even strengthen them. After today’s visit of Kyriakos Mitsotakis to the Metropolitan Expo exhibition center where he will speak at the opening ceremony of the maritime exhibition “Posidonia 2024” and then the meeting he will have with local government bodies in the Field of Areos, tomorrow he returns to a tour program outside Attica .

Specifically, tomorrow Tuesday, he will tour Thessaly and Larissa, a traditionally “blue” region which in the post-Daniel era is a strong political bet for the government, even though from the first moment it was actively mobilized and threw all its available forces into the restoration and relief of the residents affected by the devastating effects of the bad weather. Thessaly breaks through the government’s big goal: not to leave any political room for the opposition to “cloud” and “erode” the efforts and the work that has been done so far to return to normality for residents, farmers and professionals of the area.

In addition to his pre-election rally, the prime minister is expected to inaugurate the Civil Protection Center in the region, while then, together with the regional governor Dimitris Kouretas, he is expected to visit areas affected by last autumn’s floods. It is no coincidence that the prime minister chose to be in the Thessalian plain, just before the curtain fell on the pre-election campaign of the European elections, emphatically communicating the will, efforts and policies of the government for the region which were activated from the first moment and continue in many levels.

The message “give us the strength to bring Greece steadily closer to Europe in everything” resonates more and more loudly, as the time of the elections approaches, with the aim of the blue faction to receive from the “opening of the ballot box” that percentage which will reaffirm the confidence of the citizens for the continuity of government policy and the major reforms that the country needs and push it further and further, closer and closer to the European status.

However, according to all recent measurements, the ND seems unlikely to reach the threshold set by the prime minister himself, the target of 33%, with Kyriakos Mitsotakis asking for a clear mandate to be able to negotiate as the strongest center-right party in the EU. He has also asked the citizens “on the night of the European elections, it is absolutely certain and understandable to all that the government still has a strong political legitimacy to continue the project that we started eleven months ago and we are implementing it fully. Because I challenge anyone from the opposition to indicate to me a policy that we have implemented that was not included in our pre-election program”.

On Wednesday Kyriakos Mitsotakis, after two weeks since his last tour, will return to Thessaloniki, where he will make his customary central pre-election speech at Pier 1 of the city’s port, while the curtain of the pre-election period will traditionally fall on Friday, June 7 in Athens, where Kyriakos Mitsotakis will speak in Syntagma Square.