Alekos Kahrimanis, from the first Sunday and for another term in the Region of Epirus.
Who just proved that he is untouchable.
And that he will cease to be District Governor only when he wants it.
Mr. Kahrimanis showed that he does not lose elections.
And that’s true.
Since he was a candidate for Mayor in Metsovo for the first time (in 1990 if I remember correctly) until today he has not lost any election either in the municipality of Metsovo, in the Prefecture of Ioannina or in the Region of Epirus.
And the others…
Let’s now go to the rest of the compars who complete the puzzle of the elections in the Region.
SYRIZA lost many points compared to the percentage that Giorgos Zapsas got in the previous elections.
So you don’t call him a winner.
Probably defeated by the (other) losers of the electoral battle, you call him.
PASOK kept its forces and increased them somewhat, but still it is not what anyone would like. It shows no signs of recovery and that’s an issue.
The faction of Rizopoulos was defeated, while that of the KKE is justified in celebrating.
The celebrations of Mitsotakis
To go to the Mitsotakis celebrations.
Because the candidates he and his party supported won.
Well. This is where our politicians have always made a serious mistake.
Regional elections are not national elections.
And for this reason the Kahrimanis executive of the N.D. but he was not voted for and elected only by the voters of the ND.
For him to be elected with a percentage of 55% means that he was voted for by voters who in the national elections do not vote for New Democracy.
In this sense, the celebration of parties for the “victories of their own” in Local Self-Government is eternally wrong.
Municipal elections
Now we go to the municipal elections.
And as far as the Municipality of Ioannito is concerned, no one was surprised by Thomas Bega’s first place.
Personally, I did not fall from the clouds and from Dimitris Papageorgiou’s rate.
Percentage and second place which I consider his personal success.
So I always believed that Mr. Papageorgiou can and will take second place.
In contrast to some who even saw Nikos Gonda claiming the entry of his faction into the second electoral round.
But we will talk about these estimates later.
On the second Sunday
And of course the one and only question is whether Dimitris Papageorgiou will be able to cover this difference of 9 or 10 points in order to emerge victorious on the second Sunday against Thomas Bega.
I would say that, after the sin of the last election, it is up to Bega to lose or win.
It depends on him what moves he will make in the coming days and what alliances he will secure.
Of course, the same applies to Dimitris Papageorgiou, as long as he doesn’t make the mistake of saying that it happened once, so it doesn’t happen again.
The upheaval of 2019 took place under completely different circumstances, on the one hand, and on the other hand, not every day is Lilac…
And they both know it.
So far it has been heard…
Now let’s go to the catastrophic failure of Nikos Gonda’s Municipal Vanguard faction.
A failure that resonated mainly for them, since they had believed that they might do better this time.
And indeed that was how things were. The conditions this year were completely different compared to 2019.
With the first and foremost reason that in 2019 the N.D. he had given the anointing to Ms. Kalogiannis, something he did not do this year. So the Municipal Vanguard did not go down like a rebel…
And secondly, that the ballot was better and that the opposition to Kahrimanis has been bridged.
It was a series of reasons that I was giving a tone of optimism that the faction can come out second… But it stayed in the tone.
You don’t call it success
Let’s also go to the party ballot of the KKE, the People’s Rally headed by Oli Tsoumanis.
Mr. Koutsoubas may have been celebrating the pan-Hellenic percentages of the Popular Rally, he cannot do the same in the Municipality of Ioannito. Where the ballot caught 5% coming in sixth place below even the independent Koloka.
You don’t call that success in the capital of the prefecture to be sixth rank…
When in the district you got almost double the percentage…
And we go to abstinence
And of course abstinence is a headache.
Much more so when there were so many candidates in this electoral contest that you expected an increase in the participation rate because of friendship, because of kinship, because of acquaintance.
Despite all this, abstinence moved to a high percentage.
And instead of troubling the authorities, they are indifferent.
More apolitical you get lost.
