By Penelope Galliou

In the midst of preparations for the Prime Minister’s speech at the TIF, the government staff and ministers are on alert at all times for clarifications, corrections or additions during the preparation of the speech and announcements, which are expected on Saturday evening from the stage of the Velide Conference Center in Thessaloniki.

Although the prime minister’s close associates hint in private discussions that he has locked the framework of the measures to be announced, the prime minister – as always happens in positions of this scope – continues to make his last interventions in his speech, which will open the new political period and mark a political restart with a horizon not only for next year, 2025, but also for the rest of the ND government’s term, until 2027, when the national elections will be held again elections.

The “compass” of the government road map is – according to all government officials, whatever position they serve – the everyday life of the citizen, which has emerged as the biggest “adversary” of the government, according to the measurements, which were made public even after the summer and despite the rays of optimism that “appeared” in key sectors with the downward trend of inflation and, little by little, prices.

Why the accuracy it is, moreover, the greatest problem of Greek households and the fight against it is an absolute government priority.

Under these circumstances, and given the positive course of the Greek economy and the proper execution of the budget, as it is reflected in the reports of the European institutions, the government has its eyes on Brussels, probably expecting an additional amount of around 500 million euros for spending, which may be the budgetary “push” for the so-called “surprise” announcement that is almost traditionally kept as a top secret every year, in order to be the news of the Prime Minister’s speech from the TIF podium.

However, those in the know picture this “surprise” as affecting as wide a range of Greek society as possible with an economic impact, which will seek to breathe life into a large part of society.