By Penelope Galliou

In tactic “close to society” the Maximos Palace returns again in the next period, with the aim of the government to strengthen its presence alongside the citizens in every corner of Greece. After the announcements of the government’s plan for the next year, by the prime minister at the TIF, but also of his goals for the next three years of the government’s term, until the 2027 elections, government officials in the next few days start tours all over the country. In the context of Kyriakos Mitsotakis’ exhortation for “no day wasted” Ministers, MPs and local party officials, expected to “plough” the country, in order to communicate the government program and “reheat” their direct contact with the citizens, in order to reinforce the message that the state is present at every moment and not only during the pre-election campaign, re-approaching the electoral base.

In addition to regaining contact with citizens and society, the subject of the government officials’ visits will be the presentation of the announced measures by the prime minister in Thessaloniki, focusing on their positive effects for citizens and specific social or professional groups, while at the same time there will be close monitoring of the routing and implementation of the projects promoted by the government. “It is important not to lose touch with society and its needs,” commented a government official, emphasizing the two-way relationship between the state and the citizen that plays an important role in the effectiveness of political choices and initiatives.

The government’s plan of visits and tours has been undertaken by the advisor to the Prime Minister Thanasis Nezis, the Deputy Minister of State Giorgos Mylonakis and the secretary of the party Maria Syregela, while the echelons that will visit the region have been invited to record the problems that will be reported to them, the observations and needs of the citizens, so that upon their return to Athens, the necessary actions and policies to resolve them can be launched.

At the same time, the re-approaching the so-called “dissatisfied” traditional ND voters, who, for various reasons stemming from the government policy of the previous period, distanced themselves from the blue faction and sent their message through the ballot boxes of last June’s European elections. A portion of these traditional voters were also at the center of the Prime Minister’s announcements from the TIF platform, with the arrangements in the taxation of freelancers, a traditionally political audience of the ND, or with the strengthening of the agricultural world, which “turned its back” ” to the ruling party expressing disagreements with the followed government policy and reflecting it in the June Euro-election. The conservative public is also under the “microscope” of the Maximos Palace, as was also manifested by the Prime Minister’s speech in Thessaloniki, giving special emphasis with measures and announcements on the Demographic and the measures to support the Greek family, an issue that traditionally concerns the conservative electorate.

In terms of the geographical features of the government planning, Northern Greece remains at the center of interest, as in the last European elections it was shown that its citizens moved to the right of the ND, while opinion polls still record the dynamics of the same parties in specific regions.