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That the mood inside the parliamentary group of the New Democracy has been different for a long time was easily realised, seeing the image of the “blue” MPs standing up in Parliament to applaud the announcements of Kyriakos Mitsotakis on the intervention on bank charges, on the support of low pensioners and the military, commitments which were specified yesterday.

A strong vote of parliamentary confidence in an environment of extreme political volatility was given to the government as the state budget for 2025 received 159 positive votes, the most in five years.

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Greetings! So, these past few days I read in Proto Thema and on protothema.gr the excellent commemorative piece by Panos Loukakos, marking 50 years of New Democracy, which is being celebrated today. The highly engaging novel-like text on the 50 years of New Democracy naturally focuses on its founder, Konstantinos Karamanlis, and the chosen title is a quote from him: “Am I the right-winger?

The “disproportionate burden of defense spending borne by the Greek taxpayer” which “relates to the protection of European borders and, above all, to Greek-Turkish relations” was referred to by Bank of Greece governor Giannis Stournaras, speaking at the launch of Takis Pappas’ book “Paradoxical Country: Why Greece lags behind Ireland and Portugal and what can we learn from them?”.

Marios Salmas has been expelled from New Democracy after being ousted from the party’s parliamentary group earlier today.

“By decision of Maria Syreggela, the Secretary of the New Democracy Political Committee, Mr. Marios Salmas is expelled from the party,” announced ND headquarters in Piraeus.

The announcement regarding Salmas’ expulsion from ND’s Parliamentary Group stated:

New couples are involved, at a rate of 58%, in the approved loans under the “My House” Program, according to data forwarded to Parliament by the Deputy Minister of National Economy and Finance Nikos Papathanasis. 87% of the approved loans are for beneficiaries with an annual income of less than 24,000 euros.

The first thing PMs do when they are planning early elections is to deny it, and that is precisely what Prime Minister Kyriakos has been doing feverishly for many months, insisting that he intends to serve out his full term, which ends in July, 2023, in order to implement major reforms that were in New Democracy's electoral platform, incuding a sweeping reform of the educational system,

MPs voted on Wednesday to expand the scope of an investigation into Dimitris Papangelopoulos, a minister in the former leftist SYRIZA administration, over his alleged meddling in a judicial investigation into bribery claims linked to Swiss pharmaceutical giant Novartis.