Maximos Charakopoulos

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.

Fifty years after the founding of New Democracy by Konstantinos Karamanlis, the party, led by Kyriakos Mitsotakis, returns to its historic headquarters on Rigillis Street for a unity gathering that addresses all generations of the party.

Maximos Charakopoulos, a Member of Parliament for New Democracy, is urging the cancellation of electricity charges levied on farmers affected by severe flooding, particularly those using power for irrigation wells.

With all eyes on the olive groves (as the price of olive oil is the protagonist and driver of food inflation), consumers are waiting to find out if this season holds more inflation. Although the signals are currently contradictory – as consumption is declining, but production is also declining due to the climate crisis – there is a trend of de-escalation. But that is one side of the story.