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The era of warm embraces between PM Alexis Tsipras and Independent Greeks leader Panos Kammenos appears to have passed, despite their mutual passion for power.

Either the government will secure the requisite majority to continue its work or it will go to the polls as soon as possible.

The government must examine all the parameters before it sacrifices everything in order to remain in power as a minority government.

Tsipras and his SYRIZA party have been outwardly optimistic about garnering the necessary simple majority of 151 votes in the 300-seat legislature,

The PM clearly views its prospective ratification as a major accomplishment of his government.

The more handouts the government announces the more the main opposition party’s lead in the polls is grows.

The centre-left Movement for Change and extreme-right, nationalist Golden Dawn are tied for third place with seven percent of the vote, followed by the Greek Communist Party (KKE) with six percent.

With its customary opportunism, the government has managed to transform the Greece-FYROM Prespa Agreement into a domestic problem that has divided society and the government itself.

In Larissa, Kammenos said that he will pull out of the government if the Parliament of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia finalises the constitutional amendments required by the Prespa accord on 15 January.

The SYRIZA-Independent Greeks government copied every single one of the populist ills with which post-dictatorship Greek democracy was fraught.

The targeting of the media was and is the foundation of the PM’s political career. Like many other populist leaders, it was and is his fervent desire to control and subjugate the press.

Political parties’ loans (mainly Pasok and New Democracy) are the next objective of the SYRIZA-Independent Greeks government, after the targeting of former prime minister Costas Simitis.

By serving the populist and anti-political slogan “Everyone is on the take”, the PM is erring on many levels, because when you cultivate disdain for the entire political system, it is certain that such a generalisation will one day knock on your own door.

Kammenos yesterday that Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras was aware of his views on a Plan B for FYROM and US bases, but disagreed. Still, he expressed them in a formal meeting with US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, leaving the impression that he is carving out his own foreign policy,

It is impossible for a society that is economically pressured and a market that is bedeviled by over-taxation to lead the economy to a growth path. Without growth, it is impossible to create new jobs. In other words, the numbers prosper, even though the unemployment queues are endless.

The various institutions linked to the independent judiciary, which has been turned into a tool by ministers and MPs, usually tolerate and remain silent about the provocations to which they are subjected.

The voices in SYRIZA against the party’s junior coalition partner are hypocritical. They knew very well not just who they were governing with, but also with whom they embraced on election night and during the vote of confidence in parliament.

The ideological and political differences between SYRIZA and the Independent Greeks were highlighted in their conflicting views on church-state relations, the law on same-sex partnerships, and a host of other social issues.

The country is being transformed into an aircraft carrier by those who had politically invested in anti-Americanism, depicted themselves as heralds of national independence, and described their political opponents as “Quislings” and “German collaborators”.

Panos Kammenos is on edge because his party literally disintegrated, both in the polls and on the level of cadres.

You feed the public with an alleged “clean hands” approach, even as you are setting up new vested interests.

By the end of 2019, according to press reports, 5,000 primary residences of debtors worth 150,000 euros or less will be auctioned off

The new cabinet signals the continuation of Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras’ tight embrace with his junior coalition partner, Defence Minister Panos Kammenos

The objective of the reshuffle was to give the government a new momentum and to broaden SYRIZA’s political base ahead of the next general elections

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