The plan and the open horizon for autumn elections, the candidates in Trikala and Serres, Metro Line 4 and AVAX, Thessaloniki is flying

-Hello, Christ is Risen and galore blessed returns with wellness for everyone. Easter, then, with mostly bully upwind and of people tons of radical everywhere. Patience until the adjacent May Day agelong weekend, though from present connected that the upwind is improving… who tin clasp back. We each ticker the planetary developments with caution and anxiety, of course, and with galore hopes that warfare volition not return. Before we determination to existent affairs, fto maine springiness you, from my sources, a wide governmental picture. Mitsotakis’ program is, erstwhile the existent obstacles—OPEKEPE and the wiretapping issue—are overcome, to determination into summertime and, if everything goes well, without war, large fires, oregon unpleasant surprises, to “consider autumn elections.” It’s inactive a spot early, but if you deliberation astir it, not truly that early—the clip aft summertime starts counting down to the ballot box.

Back to mundane life
-From today, the PM’s bureau returns to mean rhythms aft the abbreviated interruption that gave everyone immoderate much-needed breathing space. Mitsotakis himself returns to his bureau this morning, portion his aides person besides been fixed a wide bid to beryllium present. A bid of captious meetings begins, arsenic up lies the parliamentary statement connected the regularisation of instrumentality and institutions requested by Androulakis. Mitsotakis, however, does not privation the treatment to beryllium confined to OPEKEPE and the wiretapping issue, which the absorption volition surely raise, and is expected to pre-announce the commencement of the law revision process, with his connection containing surprises. For example, beyond reducing the fig of MPs and the incompatibility of being some MP and minister, adjacent a alteration successful the electoral strategy (single-member districts and penchant vote) is being considered, arsenic good arsenic word limits for MPs and section authorities officials. Of course, it remains to beryllium seen who from the absorption volition hold and to what extent, arsenic things are not heading toward wide consensus.

Heavy clime implicit OPEKEPE
-I don’t cognize what authorities officials recorded during their outings, but the temper successful galore agrarian regions is… somewhat heavy, I’m told. Maximos has a picture, arsenic it has conducted section polls—for example, I’m told that the worst-performing portion successful Thessaly is Larissa. In Thessaly, Velopoulos is picking up something, but PASOK, KKE, and Plefsi person besides strengthened, portion successful Larissa specifically, “Zoi” whitethorn adjacent get MP the farmers’ unionist Sokratis Aleifitirias.

Deputy determination governors participate the battle
-New Democracy, however, is looking for an antidote to debased cohesion by strengthening section ballots. In 2023, aft complaints from section MPs, lawman determination governors—strong section names with tens of thousands of penchant votes—were excluded from the ballots. It seems this volition not hap this time, and respective of them volition participate the penchant ballot conflict successful the nationalist elections.

Papastergiou to run
-The lack of Katerina Papakosta from the Trikala ballot successful the 2027 elections opens the mode for broader reshuffles successful New Democracy’s summons successful the region. Those who saw Digital Governance Minister Dimitris Papastergiou during the Easter days understood that helium is preparing to participate the contention arsenic well. In fact, astatine noon connected Good Friday, helium happened to beryllium astatine a tsipouro tavern with the existent frontrunner of the region, Kostas Skrekas, and the “whispers” from adjacent tables were going wild.

Serres
-Since we’re talking astir ballots, successful Serres the workout is not casual for New Democracy, arsenic for the archetypal clip since 1974 determination volition beryllium nary campaigner bearing the sanction Karamanlis. In a caller canvass tally by ND, it wasn’t doing badly—it was getting 40%—but that was earlier the 2nd signifier of the OPEKEPE issue. In this region, Velopoulos is said to execute better, portion determination is besides speech astir Deputy Regional Governor Panagiotis Spyropoulos, who, however, particularly during the play of farmers’ mobilizations, was not speaking successful the champion presumption astir Maximos and Mitsotakis himself.

What’s happening with Metro Line 4: What AVAX says, what the State decides connected the bonus
-New information for the timetable of Athens Metro Line 4 comes with the determination of the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport, dated April 7 and signed by Christos Dimas, regarding the entreaty of the contractor consortium AVAX–GHELLA–ALSTOM, intelligibly stating that the existent completion clip of the task cannot presently beryllium determined with precision. The lawsuit concerns the largest nationalist municipality infrastructure task successful the country, Line 4, conception “Alsos Veikou – Goudi,” for which the declaration was signed connected June 22, 2021, with a contractual worth of €1.15 cardinal positive VAT and an archetypal completion deadline of June 20, 2029, that is, 2,920 calendar days. From that constituent on, however, the large divergence begins. The contractor consortium, successful the revised timetable submitted to the ministry, argued that owed to superior delays successful the handover of sites, changes successful the series of works, and wide impacts connected the captious path, the caller completion day is pushed to February 13, 2034. Opposing this, Ελληνικό Μετρό considered that the contractor’s timetable extends delays and incorporates elements not yet finalized. Based connected its ain assessment, a full hold of 1,171 days arises, moving the contractual completion from June 20, 2029, to September 3, 2032. The important point, however, is that the medication itself admits it does not yet person capable information to afloat measure the grade of delays astatine cardinal fronts specified arsenic the Evangelismos and Goudi stations. For this reason, it states that it is not possible, “at present,” to see a greater hold than the 1 already granted, portion explicitly acknowledging that the contractor whitethorn instrumentality with a caller petition erstwhile capable information emerges for a due appraisal of delays. In elemental terms, 2032 is not a last transportation time, but the maximum hold that the work presently considers it tin o.k. based connected disposable data.

Delays and bonus astatine the halfway of the dispute
-The 2nd large contented of the determination concerns the €57.7 cardinal bonus, approved successful 2022 arsenic an further outgo for the timely completion of the project. The archetypal determination of Ελληνικό Μετρό provided for the instrumentality of the amount, connected the grounds that aft extensions are granted, the close to person it is lifted. The contractor, however, challenged this arsenic well, arguing that the delays are not owed to its ain responsibility but to the nonaccomplishment to timely manus implicit the sites. At this point, the Ministry’s determination substantially differs from its archetypal stance, stating that the contractor’s petition to cancel the instrumentality of the further outgo “is, for the clip being, deemed valid,” precisely due to the fact that the hold is linked to the non-delivery of sites by the task proprietor and not to responsibility connected the portion of the consortium. This means that, astatine this stage, the instrumentality of the bonus is not considered justified, arsenic the applicable assertion is not sufficiently supported by the existent information earlier the administration. The use, however, of the operation “for the clip being” indicates that the contented is not considered definitively closed, but is apt tied to the further improvement of the task and the last appraisal of delays.