By Penelope Galliou

We are looking ahead and continuing the reform work that changes the country for the better, correcting the wrongs of the past, is the message sent by the government officials and the Maximos Palaceafter the internal party “arrhythmias” it caused the deletion of the MP of Etoloakarnania Marios Salmabut also the embarrassment of the previous period from the “parliamentary nuisances” of the 11 blue MPs with the question about the red loans and the pre-announcements and other corresponding movements.

This message, after all, was broadcast by prime minister and from American soil, during the event with expatriates in Astoria, with the aim of being “heard” all the way to Athens of course. “If the first four years of our term were about the stabilization of the country, the recognition that we have left behind us the difficult years of the crisis, the regularization of our public finances, the return to the ranks of normal European countries, the next four years are about the making a big leap towards the future, achieving real convergence with the European Union, dealing with the underlying problems that have held us back for many, many years” emphasized Kyriakos Mitsotakis, once again clarifying his intentions and his plan for the remaining three years, until the national ballot is set up in 2027.

Addressing the audience of the diaspora, the prime minister referred to the development “at a significantly faster pace than the rest of Europe” for the attraction of foreign investments and for the creation of jobs. “We will improve the standard of living, we will increase wages, we will encourage more Greeks who emigrated during the difficult years of the crisis to return,” he noted.

Back in Athens, everything seems to be normalizing inside the blue faction, with the tones, which for the moment went up between a group of MPs and Megaros Maximos, falling with a joint effort of both sides.

As a party source commented, even the “crash test” of the presentation of the book “Karamanlis – Politics as creation” passed quietly, without new challenges of introversion.

Although only twenty-four hours have passed since the arrhythmias caused in the last period in the blue line, in the Amphitheater of the National Gallery, the mood of all the executives who crossed its threshold, for the presentation of the book about its founder, was evident SWto drop the tones.

Despite persistent questions from journalists, the former prime ministers, Kostas Karamanlis and Antonis Samaras, almost three months after the harsh criticism they had leveled at Kyriakos Mitsotakis for his policy, from a corresponding event at the war museum, yesterday, avoided any comment and did not proceed in statements about whether there are internal party problems in the ND. The president of the Parliament, for his part, stated that “There are no internal party issues in the ND” adding that “there are popular needs that the ND intends to heal and fortunately has time ahead of it”.

And the MPs who attended the event, however, were quick to “downplay” what happened in the previous period. “We have always democratically expressed opinions. There is no internal party problem. None.” stressed the Deputy Minister of Labor Kostas Karagounis while Stelios Petsas in the same mood denied any internal party issue, adding that “there is complete like-mindedness, unity and orientation towards the problems of the MPs”.

And MPs from the “11”, who signed the controversial question to the Minister of Finance about the bad loans, downplayed the “uproar” that their movement raised, such as Christos Boukoros who separated the deletion of Salma from the parliamentary initiative of the “11” , stating that “the ministers are obliged to answer. With the central goal of all of us solving the problems that concern the citizens. Everything else is far from reality,” he commented to reporters. And Vassilis Yogiakas avoided adding more fuel to the internal party fire and although he argued that if necessary the “11” will come back with other questions, to the question of whether there are issues that the government has not seen, he evaluated it positively, saying that “it is going too very well”.