By Penelope Galliou

The submission of a “household” budget as characterized by government officials, changes the page of the political conversation opened by the internal party developments of the last few days in the ND, with the Samara deletionand the sealing of the “end of Samara” and formally, with the announcement yesterday in the Plenary Session of the Parliament, returns the political discussion to “important” and “big”.

“The 2025 Budget is a Budget which, by combining fiscal seriousness with economic development, responds to national and social priorities, heals the wounds of the crisis of the past decade and helps our country rise even higher!” stated the Minister of Finance Kostis Hatzidakis after the deposition, showing the path that the government is determined to continue in the society with an ally the satisfactory figures of the economy.

The Maximos Palace is determined by projecting its policy with a direct impact on society and Greek households, to overcome the turmoil caused by the removal of the former prime minister, by emphatically communicating, the prime minister himself and government officials, his strategic plan at every level. In this planning, in the foreground is the economy and its performance, which in turn will activate policies for citizens and the improvement of their daily life and their “pockets”. “Citizens don’t care if our GDP growth rate is three times the EU average,” government sources comment, but that this has a positive impact on their income, on the improvement of health benefits, schools and public services. the same sources observe.

This plan is planned to be presented and analyzed in every direction in the next period, returning government officials as well as the prime minister himself to a tour program mainly in areas of Attica. The aim is to rewarm the contact with the citizens, which must be maintained regardless of the period, ND executives point out, in order to maintain the immediacy of contact with the world and its problems. At the same time, the government’s work should also be highlighted, through the programs that have been implemented and those that are expected to be implemented. The government staff believes that by completing the ongoing projects across the country and addressing the problems faced by the citizens, whether at the local or regional level, the government will succeed in generating interest and attracting those the citizens who distanced themselves in the period after the 2023 national elections.

Under these circumstances, special emphasis will be placed on the criticality of political stability, which is a necessary condition for the progress of the country and, by extension, the citizens. However, it is also a clear message to those who wanted to risk the parliamentary cohesion of the ND, after the removal of Antonis Samaras. “I consider that political stability, which is also guaranteed by K.O. of N.D. and the Prime Minister personally and the members of the Government as a whole, is the only one, not the only one, it is the most necessary, the most necessary condition for all the rest to be done. It doesn’t say anything by itself. But without stability, without political stability, nothing else can be done,” said the Government Spokesperson speaking on SKAI radio. In contrast, he recalled two facts. “One, our own past. Let’s remember how much stability was demanded for too many years and how much we paid from them, who supposedly would change everything and forced us into a prolonged uncertainty, with too many consequences of this uncertainty. And the second is that we live in a world, we are members of a Europe, the Europe of 2024, where in many countries stability is the goal, even for a month. We have succeeded, after very difficult years, and we have secured, in 2019-2023, 2023-2027, which believe me will be a stable cycle. We will not give it away on a whim” he concluded meaningfully. In the internal party field, all eyes are on the intervention of Kostas Karamanlis tomorrow, Friday from Patras, where he will attend the book presentation, and whether or not he will take a position on what happened with Antonis Samaras, with whom he had a common “pace” lately, but not of the same intensity and phraseology. “Each of his positions is of interest to us,” comment government officials, not disputing the interest and criticality – perhaps – of the former prime minister’s position.