Is the Kasselaki nomination a 24-hour question going to KKE? Ministerial tours with orders Mitsotakis, alert for blind spots in Evros, positive measures of ITH, increased loan costs for Greek companies, the Competition Commission and the delayed deal

The cube is cast Stefanos Kasselakis in the middle of the week announces his nomination to reclaim Syriza’s leadership as NewsIT sources say. The most likely is to do so through social media which is the way it usually addresses the base incessantly. NEWSIT had revealed that it would not be discharged. He was thinking or staying at Syriza who considers him a party or making his own party as he was being pressed by political friends. In his first post when he asked the supporters not to organise rallies he divided “I am here”. His associates then leaked that “the battles are fought within SYRIZA”. On Friday (13/9) with a notarial act signed by the Central Commission and Political Secretariat declared him deductible, Kasselakis joined in recalling the right of signature he had given to the financial director Mr Mavrocephalidis. He will be given back by the SG and the president of KO Nikos Pappas to overcome the financial and management difficulties. But his credentials were filed by Stefanos Kasselakis. Polls and Kasselistas There were also some polls of the creation of a Kasselakis party. The percentages ranged from 3.5, 6 and 7%. There were also supporters of him such as Elena Acrita who said it and publicly that Kasselakis would not want to make a party and if he did he would not follow him because her seat is in Syriza. And Alekos Avlonitis, who supports him and considers a coup d’état the decision of the JV to declare him fallen, said that his party is Syriza, will support whoever wins the leadership and if he left, he would surrender his seat. He will not go to the Central Committee of the weekend, but Stefanos Kasselakis will not attend at least on the basis of his planning until yesterday. Nor does he intend to move legally against the party that declared it deductible in a process he does not recognize. There were voices that encouraged him in this direction (Ares Spiliotopoulos, Vangelis Antonaros etc). He won’t if he doesn’t. He doesn’t want the base to get any more hurt. The tones are lowering. The tones seem to decrease on the opposite side. There may be voices (Katerina Notopoulou) to refer Stefanos Kasselakis to disciplinary with the request of deletion but the majority of the PGI is against. “Anyone who thinks such issues can be solved by disciplinary measures is wrong,” Nikos Pappas stressed to Nikos Evangelatos at LIVENEWS at MEGA. Unless there are provocative moves by Kasselakis as intersect members of “87” (to invade Koumoundourou etc). He doesn’t intend to do it, though. Otherwise, the former president of SYRIZA cannot be banned from claiming leadership again. ‘Messengers’ The mandate to plough the district to inform of ITH measures and to record delays and deficiencies by discussing with local communities the prime minister gave his ministers. The code is “to speak with the citizens again”. Convince the citizens who turned their backs on the South West to look after her again because she’s trying. The ‘Generals’ Kyriakos Mitsotakis Thanasis Nezis, the Deputy Ministers Thanasis Kontigorgos and George Mylonakis, the secretary of ND Maria Syregela, Stelios Kontadakis of the Organization and have begun planning ministerial tours. They’ll start next week. “Missing” and “good horsemen” ministers enter the Mitsotakis target. To Evros The prime minister with half the cabinet will go to Evros, early October. The extremities are concerned because following the abolition of the Schengen agreement and the closure of the border on immigrants from Germany, the traffickers have been decommissioned. Mitsotakis asks for the implementation of the Immigration Pact and says that “a country like Greece cannot bear a disproportionate burden because of its geographical specificity.” ‘ Blind’ points In the last few days the Jewish people have seen immigrants walking by groups. Their dealers leave them at the border even on motorcycles. They choose “blind spots” where there is no wall. Patrol has increased. Migration flows are expected to thicken. It’s border guards and army alert. Citizen Protection Minister Michalis Chrysochidis, who toured yesterday on the Evros border line, said the fence continues to be constructed and 150 new border guards are hired on the 2nd line, Rodopi and Kavala to control any flows that still exist, as he stressed. Right audiences Germany’s threats to send migrants back to Greece have caused a headache. The government is on its feet. There are several meetings. Greece will not accept immigrants back. Those leaving Greek airports are because they have been given asylum based on the European authorities (they are from Syria and other war areas). They have the right to travel to Europe for three months and then return. Few do it because Greece is seen as transit. Their goal is to go to Germany with the privileged policy it follows. Germany’s demands that Greece give them higher allowances are contrary to the government’s refusal, because its financial strengths cannot stand it. A vicious circle! Small right-wing parties invest in immigration. The Greek Solution, the Voice of Reason increase powers as Alco’s poll for Star showed. There is an alarm within the South as its right-wing trend wants a tougher policy. Especially in Northern Greece and the Aegean islands. The specialized measures of ITH that stood out Yesterday was the day half the ministers undertook to specify the measures announced by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis at ITH, with long interviews and announcements. The column is limited to two – three points that it considers positive such as the increase in the climate change charge (from 1.5 to eight euros per day for the March – October period) for the owners of Airbnb, but also the huge increase (from a cent to 20 euros per passenger) in the fees per passenger who will pay those cruise ships that tie to Mykonos and Santorini. Interests are also the incentives for innovation announced by the Ministry of Development but we would expect something more advanced in incentives for small business mergers. Now for promises ‘reduction of bureaucracy’ for businesses we keep a small basket. As for that joke about the Golden Visa and the “national register” of innovative businesses, what can you say? Greek businesses borrow even more expensive! One of the points we are holding back from yesterday’s IOBE Industry Development Bulletin is the fact that the average cost of new lending for Greek companies increased further in July to 5.8%! The very unpleasant thing is that from the end of 2023 until May the average loan cost was decreasing, since June it began to take uphill again. Thus the deviation from the average loan cost of the Eurozone was expanded in July to 73 basis points from 50 basis points in June. Perhaps now that the ITH festivals are over and the measures announced have been specified, the competent government officials should deal with the matter a little more. The increased cost of financing combined with energy costs is one of the factors that led to a new decline in exports of industrial products in June by 12.2% compared to the same month of 2023. The industries supporting industry exports! The Greek pharmaceutical industry was first in the exports of industrial products and in the second quarter of 2024. Drug exports, mainly to the EU, reached between April and June 731 million with aluminium exports in second place with 612 million euros. When you read the list down there you get desperate because instead of advanced products of high technological value, the five of the first five categories of exports to industry are complemented by the fruits and vegetables, dairy products and oils and fats. The Competition Commission delays a deal on technology Do you remember that raid by the Competition Committee on technology companies a few months ago? That raid is the cause of delaying a possible deal on the domestic market for IT and advisory services. Because the person concerned (in fact) is concerned about what will come out of the Competition Committee’s finding and decided to take a stand. In the meantime he closes some other deals to buy time. Commission: The fish stinks from the head! Regardless of the opinion one has on the French (formerly) Commissioner Thierry Breton, his letter of resignation raises some concern and shows exactly how the portfolios of Community commissioners are chosen! Breton, in yesterday’s letter of resignation, accuses Commission President Ursula von der Leien of pushing Macron not to renew his term in the Commission so that France would undertake an even stronger portfolio in the new composition of the Commission. So you understand the criteria by which portfolios are given. The knowledge of the object, political experience, etc. go for a walk. Everything, if we believe Breton, is a matter of cooking and the portfolio with which the Greek Commissioner, Mr.Gigikostas, will be found can be the result of a domino that will have started in another European capital.