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A View From the Chamber: New Democracy MPs Discuss Early Elections, the Far Right,

C O N F I D E N T I A L ATHENS 001255 NOFORN SIPDIS E.O. 12958: DECL:2019/07/17 TAGS: PGOV, ECON, GR SUBJECT: A View From the Chamber: New Democracy MPs Discuss Early Elections, the Far Right, and Reform REF: A. ATHENS 1033; B. THESSALONIKI 31; C. ATHENS 935 CLASSIFIED BY: Daniel Speckhard, Ambassador, State, EXEC; REASON: 1.4(B), (D) 1. (C) Summary. In an effort to take the pulse of the governing New Democracy (ND) party, Polcouns and Poloff on 13 July met with two junior deputies, Apostolos Tzitzikostas and Christos Staikouras, and a vice-president of the Parliament, Elsa Papadimitriou, to discuss the government’s agenda. Each of the deputies was eager to demonstrate that the government of Prime Minister Konstantinos Karamanlis retained vitality and a commitment to reform. They noted that the government would be pressing ahead with efforts to restructure the bloated government bureaucracy and loss-making state-owned enterprises like the Hellenic Railway Organization. The two junior MPs played down the possibility of early elections this fall, noting Karamanlis would attempt to rebuild public confidence in his government and hold out until a potential stalemate over electing a new President forced a general election next March. Papadimitriou, however, made a plausible case for the possibility that Karamanlis could pull the trigger early in order to force two rounds of elections within the next year. Although dismissive of the populism of the rightwing Popular Orthodox Rally (LAOS) party, the deputies nonetheless expressed concern about the party’s growing popularity and its ability to draw support from ND’s ranks. All interlocutors rejected the possibility that Karamanlis would cooperate, formally or informally, with LAOS. Instead, two of them noted that a grand coalition with PASOK would not be out of the realm of possibilities if neither major party could achieve a parliamentary majority in the next election. End summary. 2. (C) Polcouns and Poloff met on 13 July with Apostolos Tzitzikostas and Christos Staikouras, two junior New Democracy (ND) deputies, and with Elsa Papadimitriou, a long-serving ND deputy and the second of seven vice presidents of the Hellenic Parliament, to discuss the governing party’s agenda in the wake of the European Parliamentary elections in June. Each in turn offered opinions that reflected individual interests and concerns, as well as the priorities of their constituencies. Tzitzikostas, who represents Thessaloniki’s first district, displayed the most concern regarding the rise of the Popular Orthodox Rally (LAOS), which has made significant inroads, particularly in northern Greece (refs A and B). Staikouras, a London-trained economist from Lamia, said that the economic crisis dominated the concerns of his constituents, who paid little attention to nationalist issues. Papadimitriou’s political pedigree stems from family ties to the former Center Union of George Papandreou’s grandfather and namesake. She openly acknowledged center-left sympathies despite over 20 years as a member of ND and described her shift from the Papandreou’s Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK) as a “matter of aesthetics.” She claimed that ND maintained her seat in the Argolis solely based her personal popularity, since the region’s voter base was primarily center-left.