By Gifts Antoniou

Yesterday’s vote in Parliament on the finding of the vote for referral by Kostas Ah. Karamanlis at the Judicial Council, would ideally close a circle for the government, opening a net corridor until the prime minister’s presence at the TIF with the established Augustian break in the interim.

The case file for OPEKEPE disrupted this plan and does not allow the government to proceed with its own design. The OPEKEPE scandal came to set new, difficult data over that the government leadership believed that it manages to recover the initiative of movements and restore the deterioration of the debate on the causes and responsibility for the Tempe accident.

The almost eight -month cycle that opened since last December, when the issue of Tempi began to dominate the timeliness, it took a lot of time and a lot of effort to close, in the way it closed yesterday. In the meantime, the government majority recorded a remarkable recession of rates and passed a period of crisis and serious uncertainty with large rallies across the country and with the pervasive debate on findings and elements expected.

The effort to reconstruct and communicative counterattack began before Easter, and the government managed to regain the initiative of movements to a significant degree, mainly because they did not prove, in the end, the findings expected for Tempi so revealing and aggravating as rumored.

The majority manipulations in the House established a new term in dealing with possible responsibilities of government officials, “Triantopoulos Model”followed in the case of Kostas Ah. Karamanlis and is codified in restriction and bypassing the role of the House in the investigation of possible criminal liability through pre -trial committees, with almost direct reference to the Judicial Council.

The choices of the government majority were clearly aimed at leaving the Central Political Stage of the Tempi Fluoride Case and to keep the field free in taking on initiatives and shaping a positive environment for the government with the timeliness of the government produced.

The mission to the House of Representatives for OPEKEPE seriously disturbed this roadmap, causing a democratization of decline. The government has seen the profits from the long -term process of repairing Tempi’s damage disappear and its rates recede again. He saw the goal of registering 30% before the summer break is lost and is again in the vortex of a scandal that causes wear and tear and tested the government’s internal strengths and balances.

Next week, last before the August break, the OPECEPE case will be dominated, as they will be discussed in Parliament. On the 29th and 30th of the month The proposal for the majority examination committee and the two proposals for pre -trial pre -investigator. The numbers are relentless and discount that the examination will proceed, as ND It has the necessary votes. The government thus chooses to make the narrative dominant that the OPEKEPE scandal is timeless and inter -party. It remains, however, that the case file that arrived in Parliament concerns the period of its own term of office and two former ND ministers, not a general and vague description of scandal.

What they expect the government and the prime ministerial staff is that the August holidays will help remove the scandal from the front line of the news and form a favorable political environment for the Prime Minister’s announcements at the TIF.