With a unanimous decision of the Ethics Committee of New Democracy, its former president and former prime minister Antonis Samaras was excluded from the party’s Parliamentary Group.

The Ethics Committee met under the chairmanship of Yiannis Tragakis, with members Stavros Kalafatis, Costas Tsiaras, Thanasis Davakis, Theodoros Karaoglou. There were no objections, and no particular discussion took place.

The decision is referred to the office of the president of the ND and tomorrow Wednesday it will be forwarded to the Speaker of the Parliament Constantinos Tasoula and the secretary of the Political Committee of the party, Maria Syrengela.

Period and dash in Samara case however, the government puts, moving on to the next day and closing every risk scenario that arose from the removal of the former prime minister from the ND.

One after the other, the blue-collar officials, even those who in the past were close to the Messinian prime minister, assure that there is no question of the cohesion of the ND parliamentary group, stressing that there are no “spouts” of deletion within the party and appreciating that they will not exist. “ND MPs belong to a faction, not to individuals,” said a parliamentary source, who in the past worked closely with Antonis Samaras.

The Prime Minister himself, as part of a Bloomberg event entitled “The New Era of Greek Banking” sent out the message that the governing majority is stable, while he hastened to close the scenarios that were discussed as a possibility, of the early appeal to the polls. He reiterated his commitment to hold the elections on time, in 2027. “We have 2.5 years based on the popular mandate to implement our policies”, Kyriakos Mitsotakis emphasized, adding that this way “we don’t need to get into discussions of complex political alliances’.

“The last thing we want is to play with government stability,” he pointed out, describing the decision to remove the former prime minister as regrettable and “once and for all”, which, as he said, “we leave behind us.”