A new video published yesterday by a member of Maria Karystianou’s party, collecting signatures for the founding declaration which she said will be submitted to the Supreme Court today, has caused a reaction.
Communications expert Nikos Karachalios gave the move a Russian character, speaking to Thessaloniki radio station Status FM 107.7 Thessaloniki and journalists Dimitris Venieri and Virginia Dimaresi.
Karachalios sees full Russian influence in the project, in which, as he argues, proponents of the Junta, anti-Semitism, religious overload and a peculiar pro-Russian orientation intersect. “If they choose Mr. Avgerinos as their representative, for better or worse he will be considered the Putin party in Greece.” Indeed, the communicator went even further, arguing that: “Mr. Avgerinos is essentially the long arm of Ms. Zakharova.”
“From what would have been the movement of all Greeks for justice, it now appears that we have a movement of people” with a clear ideological and geopolitical stigma, he said. He used the term “big mom” to describe Russia. He argued that at a time when Greece is trying to balance itself in an unstable international environment, the creation of a political space with clear pro-Russian characteristics will inevitably cause conflicts with the country’s strategic choices. “We belong to the European Union, we belong to NATO. We belong to the European Union, we belong to the European Union, we belong to NATO, we belong to the European Union, we belong to the European Union, we belong to the European Union, we belong to the European Union, we belong to the European Union, we belong to the European Union, we belong to the European Union, we belong to the European Union.
“These people are dangerous,” said Karachalios, who said he was vindicated after saying that Ms. Karystianou and Ms. Gratsia did not represent the association of relatives of victims of Tempi but their personal ambitions.
Russia is “rushing” or “will pick them up”
On the one hand, Karachalios noted that “Russia is speeding up the establishment of a party” but on the other hand he expressed the view that they will quickly distance themselves. “Some fingers within it are moving rather autonomously. I believe that very soon they will be picked up.” “They cannot express a large and serious country which is in a state of war, which is in a world that is being rearranged, and Ms Karystianou cannot be an ambassador to Greece who doesn’t even know where Moscow falls and if you tell her what the Warsaw Pact is she will think it is some song submitted to the Eurovision contest.”
