The joint appearance that former prime ministers Kostas Karamanlis and Antonis Samaras will make today at the War Museum focuses on blue line, at an interesting time, just after the European elections. The two former prime ministers will speak at the event by the book of the director of the newspaper “Estia” Manolis Kottakis“The Secret Archives of Karamanli”.
The speeches by Mr. Karamanlis and Mr. Samaras will take place in the context of the debate that has opened in ND to about returning to the group’s roots and reconnecting with its traditional audience, issues raised by blue MPs and at the recent caucus meeting.
In this climate, interest is focused on whether the two former prime ministers will choose to send intra-party messages with their positions or whether they will criticise, thus echoing the complaints of the workers’ executives about the ideological orientation of the ND. It is worth remembering that Kostas Karamanlis and Antonis Samaras participated in the New Democracy conference in Zappeio, but did not speak.
At the same time, it also burst backdrop for the face of the President of the Republicthe name of Kostas Karamanlis being one of the names discussed in the blue wells, as well as those of Panagiotis Pikramenos or Konstantinos Tassoulas.
“Its citizens are worried about things other than supposed intra-party conflict”
However, the government is trying to moderate its tone. “Each presence of people who were at the “rudder” of the country has value,” government spokesman Pavlos Marinakis told the Action24 television station. “It is an intervention that must be heard, analyzed and taken into account by people who occupy positions of responsibility”, he stated, stating that he has “absolute respect for the people who held the reins of the faction in their hands during difficult times”. years.” .
However, he expressed the opinion that “some things are being overly dramatized, because we see the internal situation of the party in the official opposition, there must be some problem in the ND”.
“ND has the task of presenting its achievements and its planning for the coming years. Its citizens are concerned about other things than an alleged intra-party conflict in New Democracy,” Marinakis added.
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