Answers to ‘conspiracy scenarios’ Determined to use high tones and speak harsh language by disproving conspiracy scenarios – as the government calls them – concerning the national tragedy of the Tempes, and scratching the wounds of the victims’ relatives, is Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis. He will be the last to step up the House at around 9 p.m. and will respond with arguments to the criticism and attack he received in the debate held in Parliament, until 3-4 a.m., from Tuesday, on the proposal of mistrust against the government tabled by the PA. SA.K. along with Syriza, the “New Left” and the “Freedom Release”. He will no longer tolerate being accused of covering up a national crime and getting the answers requested by relatives and survivors, as the prime minister’s associates stress. For the pieces A first taste, but in the wrong way, for one of the “conspiracy scenarios” was given by Justice Minister George Florides. “The place is in trouble, imagine. Oh what soils are these?” he said in Parliament. “For the rubble are those of the politicians who use this blurry thing for the stacks,” he stressed. Only that theory is believed and the relatives of the victims who sit in the gallery and the government should, if it is not correct, deny it with evidence. Government spokesman Paul Marinakis admitted that one of the government’s mistakes was that no answers were given “on time” out of respect for investigations etc. (Parapolitics 90.1). The aim is to put a brake on the discontent of citizens and the Tembes issue to close up ideas with the motion of mistrust which is expected to be voted down by 159 MPs, the 158 of the South West and the Spartan, independent MP Harry Katsivarda who said he wants a stable government. Mitsotakis covers Karamanlis The speech of former Minister of Transport Kostas Karamanlis in the debate on the proposal of mistrust against the government was made in direct consultation with Maximos. Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis did not yield to the unbearable pressures that he accepted to proceed with “human sacrifice” by calling on Karamanlis to resign as a Member of Parliament to defuse the situation. The climate was heavy and from negative polls. They showed a fall in the ND and a large percentage, about 80-90% of citizens considering that the government either disguises or did not see to it that the truth is revealed in the national tragedy of the Tempes. He picked them up! Kyriakos Mitsotakis ordered full coverage of the former Minister of Transport. The information says he called cabinet officials (e.g. Florides) who stated that if he were in the position of Costas Karamanlis they would either submit their resignation from the parliamentary office or would not go down at all to claim a parliamentary seat. An angry phone call was also received by State MP George Stamatis who said that if he were in the position of former Minister of Transport he might not have been able to take his own life. The ‘disappeared’ Kyriakos Mitsotakis is very upset with the “disappeared” ministers. With those who get used to the hard times not coming out to defend the government project. The mandate that has been given through the Deputy Minister, despite Prime Minister Giannis Bratakos, is to all come out and talk about Tembis, not just matters of their competence. Ministers Makis Voridis and Adonis Georgiadis and the Deputy Minister despite Prime Minister Paul Marinakis are the three who always fall into the fire so their shares are high on the stock market of Maximos. Psychological pressure After a very difficult and psychological period that Costas Karamalis spent locked up in his home and office, he appeared on the floor of the House yesterday with confidence that he is not alone, supported by the Prime Minister, the government and his fellow Members who warmly applauded him when he finished his speech. “I did not hide and I will not hide behind any parliamentary immunity,” he said. “Anyone who has proof against me, bring them…”. He ran away! In the old times when he was Speaker of the House, Zoe Konstantopoulou reminded of the debate on the proposal of mistrust against the government. The president of the Freedom Sailor wrote most of the hours in plenary attendance. At the same time, however, it was repeated its interventions that reminded the old style, with the interruptions and aggressive characterizations to the other Members, causing their reaction. At one point the incumbent Speaker of the House, Thanasis Bouras in his attempt to bring her back to class blushed so much that some were worried that she might get hurt. “Please break our nerves,” he said at some point. “We have tolerances” in another. Bullying The other day, MP Lazaros Tsavdaridis protested that the president of SYRIZA is exercising political bullying (he was constantly interrupted and not allowed to speak). There were some people laughing. “Call the doctor in trouble” heard the voice of Makis Voridis. Yesterday, however, the Minister of State was extremely irritated because the former Speaker of the House was being scorned by MPs, speakers and Karamanlis – he called her deplorable “innocent” – and attacked her with harsh expressions. “You are the representation and epitome of absolute vulgarity, I sympathise with my colleagues, exercise endurance to withstand such depth of vulgarity,” he stressed. It is a fact that one could hardly follow the parliamentary procedure with Mrs Constantopoulou’s repeated speeches. Instead, when she spoke calmly and with arguments you listened carefully to her and could agree or disagree with her. The show is totally unfair to her. 1st party, empty bench In a leading parliamentary process that is the proposal of mistrust against the government, Members have proved inferior to circumstances. During the procedure the bearings were almost empty. For most hours the MPs attending the speeches reached 10, 20 or 30. About 170 were written to speak. It was very interesting. Yesterday until dawn they spoke 101. But most people would talk and leave. Several were seen in cologne and center coffee “rested”. Praise them! He finished it! “It would be a wish that European prosecutor Laura Kovesi would drop the government” as “he threw the government in Romania,” SYRIZA candidate Nikolas Farantouri told one. He even added that “it doesn’t matter what the Supreme Court says, since “in the junta he said the Revolution would prevail.” It caused a storm of reactions. The Association of Justices and Prosecutors intervened. He accused Farantouris of “undemocratic characterizations” that “compose a direct insult to the entire judiciary and undermine the work of Greek Justice”. When the provocativeness of a candidate’s statements about the European elections hits the ceiling, the “good” scenario is that he understands what he says but does so from his anguish to create a noise around his name by multiplying the seconds of their publicity. The bad scenario is when he has no sense of what he says. And the worst part when he insists because he didn’t do any folding. In the case of Nicola Farantouris it all applies. Egnatia Street, Igoumenitsa and… Node! A leading example of the distance between the announcements that Greece will become a hub of international trade and hard reality is Egnatia Street, the contract for granting it tomorrow. For almost two decades the road shaft has been running without a Motor Service Station (SCE) and with only one gas station at about 700 km! Some of the vertical axes with our northern neighbours stayed in the middle and will finally be upgraded by the concessionaire, the consortium GEK TERNA – Egis Projects. You would expect that when you invest around seven billion euros, Community and national funds, for Egnatia Road, you would also make sure that the port of Igoumenitsa was upgraded to become a real gateway to Europe. For two decades again nothing has happened in Igoumenitsa. Now the Italian Grimaldi group is preparing to make some investments that acquired the majority package of the Igoumenitsa Port Authority (OLIG). Until the Egnatia upgrade investments are made, in which no heavy maintenance has ever been carried out, and the “node” of Igoumenitsa will be on paper. The delays in contract 717 and the OSE has a great interest in looking for those responsible for the case of contract 717, for the upgrading of signalling and telemanagement on the main railway axis, the contractor’s letters to ERGOSE. In many of these letters it is revealed that the project was delayed because OSE did not deliver parts of the railway network to perform the project, as it was due and after taking the necessary security measures. The Contractor’s complaints to ERGOSE and OSE were continuous and from a first reading it appears that delays due to OSE were not small. For some departments they have been asking for months for access to be granted so that projects can be done unresponsive by the Agency. Have the investigators looked into it? Another PPP project in Greek calls! We will stay at the OSE after an important project with Public and Private Sector Partnership (SIT) that had joined the Recovery Fund was cancelled. This is the organization’s technological upgrading project (from electronic tickets to tele administrations) which has been forgotten for two to three years and will now proceed as a traditional public project. In order to be financed by the Recovery Fund, however, OSE must prepare a new notice in no time, start the competition and find a contractor with lightning processes. Is that possible? The column is sure it’ll be years before we see an electronic ticket to the broken railroad organization. All three PPP projects planned by the government for the maintenance of the railway network went to the Greek calls. How will maintenance be done? Unknown! Sklavnitis’ warehouses at the former Pitsos factory and Piraeus was extensively discussed yesterday the establishment of a new company by the Sklavnitis group with the main purpose of exploiting the property of 52 acres in Redi that hosted from 1959 to April 2021 the Pitsos factory. Everything shows that the property is to be used as a storage space, without any official announcements so far. Piraeus, however, is changing face with a number of investments that have moved on in recent years. One of the most important is the ambitious plan of Noval SAAAP to exploit the historic Bioco factory. But the General Secretariat of Public Works also seeks to build its headquarters on the same road. And the plans in Piraeus don’t stop here. Mobilisation for major digitisation projects With several months’ delay in the Ministry of Digital Governance they decided to activate and face head-on problems that delay major paper (and other) digitization projects that have joined the Recovery Fund. A few days ago they sent a firm to the companies that have taken over the digitizations, from the Estate to Justice and Health, that by the end of September they must have completed 30% of the projects and by the end of the year 50%! Given that in certain projects such as Justice and Health, contracts were signed a few days ago, it is impossible to achieve these objectives. Why were these unterritorial goals set? Because there will be serious problems with the next installments of the Recovery Fund since the digitizations are one of the important milestones. And in this climate of turmoil came yesterday’s raid by the Competition Committee at the offices of the major IT and telecommunications companies.
Answers to ‘conspiracy scenarios’, Mitsotakis covers Karamanlis, Egnatia, Igoumenitsa and… node, the ongoing sins of OSE and the sudden mobilisation for the digitization projects of the Recovery Fund
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