{"id":15106,"date":"2026-04-27T04:10:28","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T04:10:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/27\/nd-mps-are-grumpy-but-not-in-revolt\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T04:10:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T04:10:28","slug":"nd-mps-are-grumpy-but-not-in-revolt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/27\/nd-mps-are-grumpy-but-not-in-revolt\/","title":{"rendered":"ND MPs are grumpy but not in revolt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-1301974\">\n    <!-- .entry-header --><\/p>\n<div class=\"first-img article_thumbnail_wrapper\" itemscope=\"\" itemprop=\"associatedMedia\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\">\n                                                                    <picture><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/MPs-320x200.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"600\" class=\"picture-main-block-image\" data-nxsrc=\"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/MPs.jpg\" alt=\"ND MPs are grumpy but not in revolt\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/MPs-960x600.jpg\"\/><br \/>\n                        <\/source><\/picture>\n<p>File photo.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\" itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p>The predicted, by some, and hoped, by yet more, revolt of New Democracy lawmakers did not materialize. But tensions within the ruling conservatives\u2019 parliamentary group persist.<\/p>\n<p>The parliamentary immunity of 13 MPs mentioned in the case file on the farm subsidies scandal was lifted, as indeed they themselves had demanded, with no objections from ND lawmakers. But tensions surfaced in unexpected ways: some MPs, including a former Agriculture minister and two ex-government spokesmen attacked a close aide to Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Minister of State Akis Skertsos, who, in a social media post, criticized \u201cclientelist\u201d practices of MPs that led to the subsidies imbroglio.<\/p>\n<p>Skertsos is not an MP himself but has held government posts throughout ND\u2019s nearly seven-year government. Moreover, he is not a conservative born and bred but was once close to socialist PASOK, as are other close Mitsotakis collaborators, something that has fueled resentment among the party stalwarts. The attacks could very well be a case, as a local proverb says, of beating up on the saddle instead of the donkey.<\/p>\n<p>A meeting of ND\u2019s parliamentary group on April 30 could be an occasion for MPs to air grievances, some people close to Mitsotakis fear.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- .entry-content --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n        var NXFBPixelFunc = function () {\n            document.removeEventListener(\"scroll\", NXFBPixelFunc);\n            setTimeout(function () {\n                !function (f, b, e, v, n, t, s) {\n                    if (f.fbq) return;\n                    n = f.fbq = function () {\n                        n.callMethod ?\n                            n.callMethod.apply(n, arguments) : n.queue.push(arguments)\n                    };\n                    if (!f._fbq) f._fbq = n;\n                    n.push = n;\n                    n.loaded = !0;\n                    n.version = '2.0';\n                    n.queue = [];\n                    t = b.createElement(e);\n                    t.async = !0;\n                    t.src = v;\n                    s = b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n                    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t, s)\n                }(window, document, 'script',\n                    'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n                fbq('init', '109138906120213');\n                fbq('track', 'PageView');\n            }, 0)\n        };\n        document.addEventListener(\"scroll\", NXFBPixelFunc);\n    <\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/politics\/1301974\/nd-mps-are-grumpy-but-not-in-revolt\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>File photo. The predicted, by some, and hoped, by yet more, revolt of New Democracy lawmakers did not materialize. But tensions within the ruling conservatives\u2019 parliamentary group persist. The parliamentary immunity of 13 MPs mentioned in the case file on the farm subsidies scandal was lifted, as indeed they themselves had demanded, with no objections &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"ND MPs are grumpy but not in revolt\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/27\/nd-mps-are-grumpy-but-not-in-revolt\/#more-15106\" aria-label=\"Read more about ND MPs are grumpy but not in revolt\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15107,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/MPs-960x600.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","no-featured-image-padding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15106\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}