The US is looking for an alternative to Mitsotakis: a personal meeting between Samaras and Tsunis

Former prime minister Antonis Samaras and the US ambassador to Athens, George Tsunis, met and took a walk together, which may indicate the future of Greece’s political prospects.

A joint public appearance, obviously unusual, was captured by Giannis Darilas (Papadakis Press) and published by on Sunday issue of “Ελεύθερο Τύπο της Κυριακής”.

A meeting like this, and then a joint public outing at a time when the New Democracy government’s approval rating has dropped five points in the polls and has 20% popular support, now takes on new meaning.

Since Samaras clearly shared his position on the Tempi disaster and recalled that he signed a contract on railroad safety in September 2014, but it was never fully implemented, the Americans are frantically looking for an opportunity to keep the New Democracy party, which is extremely beneficial to them. in power.

Samaras will not be able to lead a coalition government with Tsipras due to a personal feud that has been going on since 2014-2015, but ideally he could lead a coalition of ND with PASOK and possibly Hellenic Solution after the removal of Mitsotakis from the leadership of the party.

“Tempi’s tragedy is ‘too big for citizens to swallow whole’ and Americans know it.” this is how the Greek media assess the situation.

Of course, what happened in Tempi did not fundamentally change the situation on the political Olympus of Greece. Confidence in electoral victory for ND is no longer seen as an unconditional scenario, and the political climate in regions such as the three regions of Macedonia (Western, Central and Eastern) is completely catastrophic for the ruling party. According to polls among the population of the region, “ND” will not receive more than 15% of the vote in Macedonia in the elections.

And they are sure that “no matter how much K. Mitsotakis postpones the elections (at least until August 13), his defeat is now inevitable”…

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