{"id":5183,"date":"2025-03-20T18:04:14","date_gmt":"2025-03-20T18:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/20\/samaras-responds-to-venizelos-suggestion-to-step-back-from-politics\/"},"modified":"2025-03-20T18:04:14","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T18:04:14","slug":"samaras-responds-to-venizelos-suggestion-to-step-back-from-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/20\/samaras-responds-to-venizelos-suggestion-to-step-back-from-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Samaras responds to Venizelos\u2019 suggestion to step back from politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-1264707\">\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\/2025\/03\/samaras_venizelos-1-320x200.jpg?v=1742490327\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"600\" class=\"picture-main-block-image\" data-nxsrc=\"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/samaras_venizelos-1.jpg?v=1742490327\" alt=\"Samaras responds to Venizelos\u2019 suggestion to step back from politics\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/samaras_venizelos-1-960x600.jpg?v=1742490328\"\/><br \/>\n                        <\/source><\/picture>\n                                                        <\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\" itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p>Former Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras responded Thursday to a suggestion from his political rival, Evangelos Venizelos, to withdraw from active politics.<\/p>\n<p>In comments to reporters, Samaras said he remains \u201cpresent and active, no matter how much it bothers some.\u201d He added, \u201cI tell Evangelos with much love that his path is different from mine. I will stay in the arena as long as I can.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Venizelos, a former deputy prime minister with PASOK, had suggested during a recent conference that Samaras consider stepping back from day-to-day politics, following his own decision to do so. \u201cI have distanced myself from active politics because I believe it is a more substantive way of engaging with political life,\u201d Venizelos said. He further remarked, \u201cGiven our shared history, I would suggest with much love that Samaras might want to consider following the same path.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Samaras also criticized the recent appointment of Nikos Tsafos as deputy minister for energy, calling it \u201cunbelievable, unprecedented and unacceptable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In November, Samaras was expelled from New Democracy, the party he led as prime minister from 2012 to 2015, due to internal conflicts.<\/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\/1264707\/samaras-responds-to-venizelos-suggestion-to-step-back-from-politics\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras responded Thursday to a suggestion from his political rival, Evangelos Venizelos, to withdraw from active politics. In comments to reporters, Samaras said he remains \u201cpresent and active, no matter how much it bothers some.\u201d He added, \u201cI tell Evangelos with much love that his path is different from mine. &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"Samaras responds to Venizelos\u2019 suggestion to step back from politics\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/20\/samaras-responds-to-venizelos-suggestion-to-step-back-from-politics\/#more-5183\" aria-label=\"Read more about Samaras responds to Venizelos\u2019 suggestion to step back from politics\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5184,"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\/2025\/03\/samaras_venizelos-1-960x600.jpg?v=1742490328","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5183","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\/5183","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=5183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}