Encouraged by polls that show his potential party not only exceeding the 3% threshold required to enter Parliament, but possibly garnering between 5% and 10% of the vote, and defying the blow to his reputation from his second opposition to ruling New Democracy (ND) – in both instances, the result of a personal feud with the Mitsotakis family – former prime minister Antonis Samaras is preparing to announce the establishment of his new party in September.
Indications point to the conclusion that he will place an emphasis on combating the woke agenda, something confirmed by his criticism in late July of the minister of Social Cohesion and Family Affairs, Domna Michailidou, whom he accused of not believing in and not promoting the nuclear family.
Michailidou’s statement at a conference in May that “there is no Greek family of the future” and that the typical family could no longer be defined as one consisting of two parents and three children, and her support for inclusion and diversity, drew the ire of Samaras, while also creating tensions within the ruling party between the liberal centrist wing and the traditional conservatives, whose coexistence was tested a couple of years ago with the legalization of same-sex marriage.
