There are more spikes for them Costas Karamanlis and Antonis Samarasafter their decision not to attend the event in Rigillis, to mark the 50th anniversary of the founding of the New Republic.
After Makis Voridis who said that “the prime minister has popular legitimacy” and that there is no question of dispute, Konstantinos Kyranakis also took a position on the depth of the crisis within the blue faction, in an interview with Sky. In particular, the Deputy Minister of Digital Governance said about the stance of the two former prime ministers that “there is no question. I think they have the courage to say it directly if it exists. It is important that the ordinary new democrats who voted for them and supported them both in victories and defeats went. There are children of ONNED in 2009 who we all remember the controversy then with George Papandreou and the “money exists” in a great defeat of the New Democracy who supported Karamanlis in a very difficult moment and rewarded him afterwards for his consistency. They were there. There are people who supported Antonis Samaras when he effectively prevented the exit of Greece from Europe and the Eurozone and paid the cost of the elections, against an ultra-populist Tsipras, they were there.”
At the same time, he added about the resounding absence of the former ND presidents from Rigillis that “obviously I’m not happy either. It saddens me that there was no celebratory sense of unity on Friday. Historically, the leaders of the New Democracy are judged by the election results and the imprint they have on Greek society. Without the simple new democrat we do not exist. They keep the faction alive.”
It is clear that in Maximos they are trying to alienate the Karamanlis-Samaras from the blue base, which is why they emphasize the “simple, anonymous members”. After all, the government representative in yesterday’s briefing for political editors said that at the street party “it was the whole of New Democracy”, cutting off from the “whole” the two former presidents of the blue faction.
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