Unprecedented: Adonis attacks Dendias on behalf of the Maximos Mansion – Samaras will not form a new party but will directly support the Defense Minister for the leadership.
The poor relationship between Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Nikos Dendias has once again been confirmed through the controversy surrounding the amendment on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
The Minister of National Defense avoided going to Parliament to speak on the amendment submitted by his own ministry.
In essence, he refrained from defending it because he neither believes in it nor considers that the government is handling the issue correctly.
Dendias intentionally attended a minor event at the Grande Bretagne
Typically, ministers attend Parliament when bills or amendments relating to their ministries are discussed and defend them publicly. Mr. Dendias, however, chose to stay away and instead attended an unrelated event at the Hotel Grande Bretagne, deliberately leaving Kyriakos Mitsotakis to bear all the political fallout from this amendment.
Sources indicate that the Prime Minister’s Office (Maximos Mansion) was furious with the Defense Minister. Not only did he demonstratively abstain from Parliament, but he also issued a written statement, rather than speaking live, which was highly ambiguous and effectively undermined the government’s reasoning for the use of the monument.
Distancing himself from a government of scandals and crisis
By doing so, Mr. Dendias once again chose to distance himself from the government’s political line.
Insiders reveal that the Defense Minister has long expressed serious reservations about the government’s foreign policy, firmly believing that Greece should never have entered into dialogue with Turkey (the so-called Athens Declaration) while Ankara continues to dispute everything in the Aegean.
Adonis attacks Dendias on behalf of the Prime Minister’s Office
In addition, Dendias has been keeping his distance from Maximos Mansion amid a wave of major scandals, particularly the one involving OPEKEPE, in which even senior ministers are reportedly under scrutiny.
His decision to step back and avoid defending the Prime Minister’s choices has angered Adonis Georgiadis, who never misses an opportunity to criticize Dendias’s differentiation and his refusal to publicly support the government in recent months.
Dendias will speak after the 2027 elections
Nikos Dendias has decided not to “betray” or openly challenge the Prime Minister, at least not yet.
However, the day after the 2027 national elections, when New Democracy is expected to fail to secure an outright majority, he will not hesitate to criticize Mitsotakis for his governance over two terms.
At this point, his key ally in this effort is Antonis Samaras; once his rival, but now a close political partner with shared goals and understanding.
Samaras will not form a party – He will back Dendias for leadership
Among the New Democracy grassroots, there is growing consensus that Antonis Samaras will not form a new party. Instead, he is expected to throw his full weight behind efforts to replace Mitsotakis and will specifically support Nikos Dendias as the next party leader.
It is also no secret that relations between Dendias and Kostas Karamanlis are excellent. For years, Karamanlis has been a daily interlocutor of the Defense Minister.
Just a few days ago, Karamanlis openly “snubbed” the Prime Minister, declaring that Greece is on the brink of a national crisis and also referred to a crisis of values and institutions.
Dendias and the unity of right-wing factions within ND
In recent opinion polls, Nikos Dendias emerges as the most popular minister and the most widely accepted figure among the center-right electorate. It is widely believed that, should Dendias become New Democracy’s next leader, it would reunite the party’s various right-wing factions, including former prime ministers and splinter parties formed in response to Mitsotakis’s centrist shift.
Mr. Dendias has one clear objective: In 2027, to remove Kyriakos Mitsotakis from the leadership of New Democracy because the latter will no longer be able to become Prime Minister again, either due to the impossibility of achieving a majority, or because, in a coalition government scenario (the most likely outcome), he will not be chosen by the second party to lead as Prime Minister.
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The Minister of National Defense avoided going to Parliament to speak on the amendment submitted by his own ministry.
In essence, he refrained from defending it because he neither believes in it nor considers that the government is handling the issue correctly.
Dendias intentionally attended a minor event at the Grande Bretagne
Typically, ministers attend Parliament when bills or amendments relating to their ministries are discussed and defend them publicly. Mr. Dendias, however, chose to stay away and instead attended an unrelated event at the Hotel Grande Bretagne, deliberately leaving Kyriakos Mitsotakis to bear all the political fallout from this amendment.
Sources indicate that the Prime Minister’s Office (Maximos Mansion) was furious with the Defense Minister. Not only did he demonstratively abstain from Parliament, but he also issued a written statement, rather than speaking live, which was highly ambiguous and effectively undermined the government’s reasoning for the use of the monument.
Distancing himself from a government of scandals and crisis
By doing so, Mr. Dendias once again chose to distance himself from the government’s political line.
Insiders reveal that the Defense Minister has long expressed serious reservations about the government’s foreign policy, firmly believing that Greece should never have entered into dialogue with Turkey (the so-called Athens Declaration) while Ankara continues to dispute everything in the Aegean.
Adonis attacks Dendias on behalf of the Prime Minister’s Office
In addition, Dendias has been keeping his distance from Maximos Mansion amid a wave of major scandals, particularly the one involving OPEKEPE, in which even senior ministers are reportedly under scrutiny.
His decision to step back and avoid defending the Prime Minister’s choices has angered Adonis Georgiadis, who never misses an opportunity to criticize Dendias’s differentiation and his refusal to publicly support the government in recent months.
Dendias will speak after the 2027 elections
Nikos Dendias has decided not to “betray” or openly challenge the Prime Minister, at least not yet.
However, the day after the 2027 national elections, when New Democracy is expected to fail to secure an outright majority, he will not hesitate to criticize Mitsotakis for his governance over two terms.
At this point, his key ally in this effort is Antonis Samaras; once his rival, but now a close political partner with shared goals and understanding.
Samaras will not form a party – He will back Dendias for leadership
Among the New Democracy grassroots, there is growing consensus that Antonis Samaras will not form a new party. Instead, he is expected to throw his full weight behind efforts to replace Mitsotakis and will specifically support Nikos Dendias as the next party leader.
It is also no secret that relations between Dendias and Kostas Karamanlis are excellent. For years, Karamanlis has been a daily interlocutor of the Defense Minister.
Just a few days ago, Karamanlis openly “snubbed” the Prime Minister, declaring that Greece is on the brink of a national crisis and also referred to a crisis of values and institutions.
Dendias and the unity of right-wing factions within ND
In recent opinion polls, Nikos Dendias emerges as the most popular minister and the most widely accepted figure among the center-right electorate. It is widely believed that, should Dendias become New Democracy’s next leader, it would reunite the party’s various right-wing factions, including former prime ministers and splinter parties formed in response to Mitsotakis’s centrist shift.
Mr. Dendias has one clear objective: In 2027, to remove Kyriakos Mitsotakis from the leadership of New Democracy because the latter will no longer be able to become Prime Minister again, either due to the impossibility of achieving a majority, or because, in a coalition government scenario (the most likely outcome), he will not be chosen by the second party to lead as Prime Minister.
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