By Dora Antoniou

His door Megaros Maximos will pass today, at 12 noon, the deputies of the ND who do not hold government office, who will have the opportunity, two days after the budget is passed, from which the Parliamentary Group left in a huff, to talk to the prime minister about current issues. The measures announced by Kyriakos Mitsotakis at the end of his speech on Sunday night form a favorable landscape to extinguish any complaints that had manifested themselves in the previous months and threatened to disrupt the course of the government.

The Prime Minister’s decision to include the MPs’ request, which was also submitted in the form of a question, to abolish the pharmaceutical expense for low-pensioners in the measures to support the weakest, is a strong signal from Maximos that he listens to the MPs and takes into account the concerns and their anxieties, the ones they receive from society. And that when there are fiscal margins and the relative possibility, these requests are satisfied. Complaints about “closed doors” and messages not being heard fall by the wayside. Equally important for the MPs of the ruling party is the measure to strengthen the enstolos, who are considered a privileged political audience of the ND. and the relevant decision overall satisfies the most conservative part of the electoral base. The provincial MPs will have the opportunity to visit their constituencies for the holidays with the measures announced for the banks as a resource, as the charges in a number of services only cause dissatisfaction among the citizens.

It is far from accidental, in this context, that the reference of the government representative, Pavlos Marinakisin yesterday’s briefing to the political editors, that regarding the exemption of 310,000 pensioners from the pharmaceutical expense, it is “a request of the Parliamentary Group of the ND. but also civil society”. The government seeks to show that it is listening to MPs and that it considers the requests they make useful and crucial to listening to public opinion.

Within this climate, the atmosphere today at Megaron Maximos is expected to be in line with the climate of the days: festive and cheerful. The government managed to get out of the budget voting process unscathed, refuting the Kassandras who even suggested significant differences, and the MPs have no reason to complain, as the factional audience can feel satisfied.

Safe ground is being established for a quiet holiday season, before the debate on the next big political milestone, the election, really opens up. President of the Republic. With the latest data, even this debate takes on different characteristics. It would be a different picture if there was still a climate of effervescence and discontent inside the ruling party, and it is different now that the situation has normalized. The prime minister, who undoubtedly emerged politically strengthened from the budget debate, with different conditions and greater freedom of movement, will finalize his decisions in the near future. The normalization of the internal party environment is also reflected in the fact that MPs and officials refrain from any public reference and nomenclature in relation to possible candidacies, which also helps to keep spirits from escalating.