Panos Kammenos

Το ότι η χώρα εξακολουθεί να βολοδέρνει ανάμεσα στις «αρπαχτές» των «ημετέρων» και στις ψεκασμένες θεωρίες δεν τιμά κανέναν

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Lebedev’s first attempt to do business in Greece came in 2013 when Russian companies sought to acquire DEPA (Public Gas Corporation of Greece)-DESFA (Hellenic Gas Transmission System Operator SA) without results at the time.

As runner-up, Terence Kouik took the seat which former Independent Greeks MP Thanasis Papachristopoulos resigned after breaking the party line .

'You demonstrated that you are a cold executioner. Obviously for you executing us means nothing, but for us the execution of Macedonia means a lot,' Kammenos told the PM.

Renegade Independent Greeks MP Papachristopoulos resigned his parliamentary seat which goes to Deputy Foreign Minister Terence Kouik.

Deputy Foreign Minister Terence Kouik is not expected to comply with Kammenos’ demand that he abdicate his right to occupy Papachristopoulos’ seat so that the second runner up can take it.

The arrangement allows the MPs – including four current or former Independent Greeks cadres – to formally remain in their current party while backing SYRIZA on all legislation.

Spyraki said that for New Democracy any change to parliamentary rules is a non-starter and she called upon Parliament Speaker Nikos Voutsis to not even raise the issue.

If a prolongation of the government’s term is pursued with dubious means, it will ineluctably lead to a debasement of parliamentary procedures and of the Republic.

The change would allow the leader of a party with fewer than five MPs to retain the same privileges he or she did when they led a recognised group.

In the Prespa Accord ratification, party leader Panos Kammenos chose to lose MPs (who defected to back the accord) and party cadres and to end his partnership with PM Alexis Tsipras,

Apostolakis underlined that the military has contributed [to security] with active military diplomacy regarding the key role that Greece has assumed “in promoting defence synergies and initiatives for security in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Balkans,

Some observers still do not rule out the prospect of main opposition New Democracy tabling a no confidence motion against the government.

“We shall do everything in our power to improve the agreement since the ragtag [governing] majority has decided to bring it to a vote and we cannot overturn it,” one ND source said.

Now, the government is again jockeying on the sidelines to gather 151 willing MPs to ratify the Greece-FYROM Prespa Agreement.

According to Mitsotakis, the agreement was that Tsipras would keep his parliamentary majority and Kammenos would not have to approve the Prespa Agreement

Noting the breakdown of the SYRIZA-Independent Greeks coalition and the upcoming confidence vote, the report refers to the subsequent 1.3 percent drop on the Athens Stock Exchange.

Kammenos is now trying to lure independent MPs who have left or have been expelled from other parties,

Kammenos has been replaced by Admiral Evangelos Apostolakis, until now Greece’s Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.