by Gifts Antoniou

The new revelations that are constantly supplying the OPEKEPE scandal make it very demanding to manage it.

As it has become clear in recent days, the completion of the procedures in the House of Representatives about the proposals submitted for examinations and pre -trial investigations does not mean that there will be a break that will help to leave the newsletters from the issue.

It proves in practice that this is quite difficult. Indeed, the small “production” of news, due to the August Raston, gives more space to the new revelations about OPECEPE.

At the same time, at the level of local communities, it seems that a cycle of rumor is triggered, sometimes well -founded and not, based on what has been heard all recent years in terms of subsidies.

Yesterday’s raid of the Authority for money laundering at the Agency’s offices is for many to confirm that there is still a lot of depth in the scandal and that revelations will continue for a long time.

At the political level, ongoing references to media and social media in subsidies received by the ND politician. In Kozani, Kalliopi Semertzidou, her partner and members of their families brought her resignation yesterday from the position she held at the ND’s Rural Bodies Secretariat.

The persistent questions from opposition parties increased the pressure on the ruling party and the government, and it was apparently considered to be a one -way resignation.

Moreover, in the case of OPEKEPE, a minister and three deputy ministers from the government resigned, so the development of executives for which questions are raised in one way or another. Of course, government sources rushed yesterday to clarify that there was no research on the resignation for Mrs Semertzidou, and she also spoke of unfair and targeted attack with false and slanderous reports.

However, it is clear that distancing is being sought, as the same sources made sure to remind you that while 2019 Mrs Semerzidou was nominated with the ruling party in Kozani, in 2023 it was cut off by the ballots.

It was reported then that her profile and the image she projects do not match the message that the party seeks to broadcast. Indeed, it is reported that then the partner of the politician had attacked Pavlos Marinakis, who at that time was secretary of the ND. and participated in decision -making for combinations and ballots.

Following yesterday’s raid on OPEKEPE and information that the investigation of eight to ten people and subsidies given for activity in the Thessaly region remains to be seen whether those who estimate that there is still a road to the revelations and that the case file that arrived in Parliament was the beginning of a case.