Stefanos

– Hello there! What a lovely weekend we just had—bright but chilly with the sun showing its teeth, and thankfully no rain (let’s see how long this lasts in November).

The government and especially the PM are waiting with obvious interest in what today will bring, if you put in the time difference, probably be Wednesday morning, the PM has some events to attend but mostly he will remain in his office watching like everyone else. No predictions maybe a slight sense that the pollsters in the last few days have overblown Trump’s numbers.

Hello, the hour of reckoning has arrived for the new leader of the free world, and naturally, this week, something quite dramatic would need to happen to shift the spotlight from this major event that occurs once every four years and politically, geostrategically, and economically impacts the whole world.

Hello, now we knew it, we wrote about it, but who believed us? Stefanos is still here, but it’s like he’s not here at all; poor guy got swallowed up by vested interests. Even the last “pillars” of Democracy—Liagas and Kainourgiou, who supported him—have started to…waver, kind of erased him.

Hello, so tomorrow marks “D-Day” for poor Stefanos, as the “priesthood,” as Pen Dalaoura (troll) calls it, along with his lyricist supporter, will decide whether to allow him to be a candidate or not. Now, let me tell you there was a bit of a fuss, as they say, among the anti-Kasselakis crowd.

Greetings! Since the government isn’t producing much news for this column, except for Olgara, who popped up in court again yesterday with her signature black shades, “clarifying that she doesn’t make statements for the sake of her children”—who, if I’m not mistaken, are still babies, but anyway—I’ll move on to the PASOK-SYRIZA scene where things are more fun.

Hello, so these past few days I had a chance to go for a coffee with my main source at the M.M., and I had the opportunity to engage in some close-up gossip, so to speak.

Greetings! The old folks used to say, “a village with few houses is a bad village,” and that phrase came to mind with SYRIZA, who, after pulling each other’s hair out all weekend in the second basement of a hotel in Metaxourgeio, suddenly they remembered the Novartis scandal. So, it seems that journalist Lianis claimed someone apologized on behalf of Tsipras to Loverdos.

– Greetings! Just when we were almost done with the PASOK crowd and thought we’d be bored with the government’s dull antics, bam, the SYRIZA people pop up to give us life and fodder for instant commentary. Kasselakis exploded in fury because, as EfSyn (a newspaper aligned with them) reported, some details from his declaration of assets came to light.

Although Kasselakis was removed, it is difficult to foresee a revival of SYRIZA in the near future. The crisis will deepen, and we will see many more episodes. There might be agreements on positions, political alliances, organizational structures, priorities, and programs.