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The PM appears determined to move forward swiftly, as his meeting with his economic team yesterday evening made clear.

Mitsotakis has tapped Ioannina MP Konstantinos Tasoulas, a protégé of the late conservative ND leader Evangelos Averof, as the next Parliament Speaker.

The outgoing government must explain why documents have been shredded over the last days at various ministries and at the PM’s Maximos Mansion offices.

The warnings that the Bank of Greece issues due to its institutional role should be viewed as necessary, and not as hostile acts as the government viewed them over the last four years.

It has been proven that the judiciary was used as a tool. High Court judges were manipulated and prosecutors were forced to or simply agreed to serve devious aims.

The current government’s short-sighted policy regarding PPC turned a corporation with small profits into a loss-making one.

The ruling party had once raised the banner of human rights, constantly unleashed charges about migrants’ poor living conditions, and demanded assistance for asylum seekers.

Top politicians – including three former prime ministers – were targeted by SYRIZA with allegations of corruption and loads of mud was slung at them.

“Not till negotiations ended on July 13, 2015, did the EU and Greece agree to a third bailout. In the meantime, the EU’s preparations for catastrophe continued,” Bloomberg reported.

Citizens in the recent elections punished the government for its failure to deliver on the economy, and the reaction of markets is hardly encouraging.

The 7 July general election will be the first held in July since 1928, and wildfire protection must be discussed during the five-week campaign.

The true bone of contention is reportedly who will serve as Supreme Court Prosecutor, as one of the candidates [Eirini Kalou] was a prosecutor in the Vatopedi Monastery land exchange case that bedeviled PM Kostas Karamanlis and New Democracy for years.

With a general election campaign in full swing and a government that is collapsing SYRIZA insists on appointing the successors of the outgoing Chief Justice of the Supreme Court and its chief prosecutor.

The government was obliged to respect the verdict of the people and immediately call parliamentary elections, thus opening a new electoral cycle.

Greek Police are aware of the identity of a number of members, including a leading figure who has a Facebook account and writes on an anarchist website.

The government has not learned that the dangers of nature cannot be confronted with on-camera show conferences or with news conferences with painted wildfires,

The government’s toleration of the anarchist group Rouvikonas until now proves that it has not curbed the group’s activity but instead has made it more dangerous.

The spectacle of the inauguration of non-existent infrastructure is not only an offence to the citizens of Thessaloniki.

The reality is that all too many households in the country are still experiencing the harsh impact of the crisis.

In a result that rings alarm bells, extreme right-wing Golden Dawn, whose leaders are self-professed admirers of Hitler, placed third with 6.0 percent in an Alco poll.

It is impossible to reverse four years of government policy in the 20 days left until the municipal, prefectural, and European Parliament elections.

From the first hours of last summer’s disastrous wilfire in Mati the weaknesses of crumbling state services, a lack of coordination, and the absence of even rudimentary emergency plans were glaring.

The government should at long last show some recognition towards those parties that backed it in passing the third bailout memorandum in the summer of 2015 so as to keep the country from falling off a cliff.

Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos and Alternate Finance Minister Yorgos Houliarakis have conceded that over-taxation of the middle class was carried out by design.

With the cards stacked against them, none of the initiatives that the PM and his government take suffice to turn the game around.