Serious questions about the role of Mareva Grabovski-Mitsotakis in the «secret» meeting of ministers with Vangelis Marinakis are raised by information that sees the light of day.
This is because the Prime Minister's wife allegedly intervened in order to bring Kyriakos Mitsotakis closer to the businessman and publisher Vangelis Marinakis, who eventually met with former ministers Stavros Papastavros and Yannis Bratakos.
According to the newspaper Documento, there was an intervention of Mareva Grabovski-Mitsotakis to Vangelis Marinakis to accept the former Minister of State Stavros Papastavrou and the former Deputy Minister to the Prime Minister Yannis Bratakou to find a solution.
The two ministers went to the home of Vangelis Marinakis for «the social event» with permission from the Maximou Mansion.
According to the same information, Mareva Grabovski, who has been a friend of Vangelis Marinakis for many years, tried to play a decisive role in ending the confrontation. According to the newspaper's information, the prime minister's wife committed the faux pas of calling her former friend, whom she even wanted to scold for what «Vima» was writing and for «not having the sensitivity to inform him about what she would do». The conversation with the businessman seemed to have nothing in the spirit of the old good friendship and made things even worse.
At the same time, the newspaper Estia reveals a text message from Mareva Mitsotakis to Vangelis Marinakis with the content «Let's get together, listen to the ministers». According to the newspaper, the Prime Minister's wife sent a message from her mobile phone to the businessman and owner of Alter Ego about the visit of the Minister of State and the Deputy Prime Minister. «At the behest of the prime minister at the trap meeting, the former ministers...», the newspaper underlines.
This is a new dimension in the case which not only confirms that it was done in full consultation with Mitsotakis, but that Kyriakos Mitsotakis' wife played a decisive role.
Vangelis Marinakis: The meeting with Papastavrou and Baltakos was known and agreed with Mitsotakis
Vangelis Marinakis gave a direct answer to Kyriakos Mitsotakis immediately after the completion of the procedure for the motion of no confidence in the Parliament through his editorial in signed by Lefteris Charalampopoulos.
The editorial of in entitled: «Look me in the eye and ignore the goat on my back» reveals that the resigned ministers, Papastavrou and Baltakos, went to the Marinakis house with the knowledge of Kyriakos Mitsotakis and in consultation with him and in essence they were «messengers».
At the same time, in the editorial's postscript, nails are hurled against both the former Prime Minister, Antonis Samaras, and Kyriakos Mitsotakis on the occasion of the elections in the municipality of Piraeus in 2014 and 2019, where it is stated «that the “interests” that the Prime Minister does not name are not hidden, nor do they need any proxy... They have appeared, they have been «measured» in elections both in 2014 (with Michaloliakos) and in 2019 (with Vlachakos) and they came out victorious against very prominent members of the Southwest, supported by prime ministers, such as Mr. Samaras and Mitsotakis.»
But let's take things from the beginning.
As stated in the in editorial, a truly strong government would not be afraid of a joint investigation of the case with the opposition, it would not be looking for «enemies», it would not be «pointing fingers» all the time, and obviously to the anguish of society and the deeper awareness of the long-lasting depth of the problems (and responsibilities) it would not simply answer «it was a human error».
And then he makes extremely interesting revelations about the background behind the visit on Sunday night (27/3) to the house of Vangelis Marinakis by ministers and secretaries of Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Stavros Papastavrou and Yannis Bratakos who were forced to resign.
«It is no coincidence that this whole attitude of the prime minister causes a concern even within the government itself, which was surprised to see, among other things, the expulsion from the government of two ministers for going to a social event apparently with the knowledge of the prime minister and in consultation with him, an expulsion that did not respect the rule “do not shoot the messenger”,» says the editorial of in.
In a particularly sharp way, the website of Vangelis Marinakis« interests gives an answer to Kyriakos Mitsotakis and for the »financial interests" that are overseeing his government.
«The government's stance is in direct conflict not only with the common sense of justice, but also with common sense, the attempt to build enemies with references to economic and business interests, who prey on the “good” government and do everything to shake it, is provocative, but also dangerous, to the extent that it betrays the way the Mitsotakis government reacts to the criticism, scrutiny and investigation that the press ought to carry out, when it honours its role as the “fourth estate” and does not exchange it for that of the centre of power.
Of particular interest is the postscript of the editorial that makes a connection between «interests» and Antonis Samaras and Kyriakos Mitsotakis.
«PS However, the «interests» that the Prime Minister does not name are not hidden, nor do they need any proxy. They have appeared, they have been «measured» in elections both in 2014 (with Michaloliakos) and in 2019 (with Vlachakos) and they came out victorious against very prominent members of the Southwest, who were supported by prime ministers, such as Mr. Samaras and Mr. Mitsotakis», concludes the editorial of in, interests of Vangelis Marinakis.
The reference has to do with the municipal elections in the municipality of Piraeus in 2014 where Vassilis Michaloliakos was a candidate and the municipality was won by Yannis Moralis, a close associate of the shipowner and publisher and the municipal elections in the municipality of Piraeus in 2019 where Yannis Moralis won against Nikos Vlachakos.
It should be recalled that Vangelis Marinakis was the first councillor in 2014 and 2019 with the electoral ticket of Yannis Moralis.
Pavlos Marinakis: Character assassination attempt against Mareva, they want to bring down Mitsotakis
Pavlos Marinakis partially denied the information about the role of Mareva Grabovski Mitsotakis in the «secret» meeting of ministers with Vangelis Marinakis
In a half refutation of the information that saw the light of publicity about the role of Mareva Grabovski Mitsotakis in the «secret» meeting of ministers with Vangelis Marinakis, the government spokesman proceeded. Pavlos Marinakis denied the publication of the newspaper «Estia» about the text message of the Prime Minister's wife to the businessman, but referred to the corresponding one of the newspaper "Documento" that referred to a phone call.
Pavlos Marinakis in his response cited an article by the editor of the news website iefimerida.gr, Christos Rapti, who refuted part of the report according to which the businessman showed him, as well as other persons, «some sms which - supposedly - sent by the wife of the Prime Minister».
«Having exhausted every method they have used, they are now turning, once again, against the Prime Minister's wife, hoping that they will achieve their goal - which is none other than to bring down the elected Prime Minister of the country, Kyriakos Mitsotakis», Pavlos Marinakis claims and speaks of «attempted character assassination».
In detail what Pavlos Marinakis says:
Once again the red line of vulgarity has been crossed. The newspaper «Estia» did not hesitate to target the Prime Minister's wife with a front page article full of obscene lies.
As it is clear from the official denial of the editor of iefimerida.gr, Mr. Christos Rapti, what is mentioned in today's edition of «Hestia» is dictated fiction.
Having exhausted every method they have used, they are now turning, once again, against the Prime Minister's wife, hoping to achieve their goal - which is none other than to bring down the elected Prime Minister of the country, Kyriakos Mitsotakis.
They forget that they had tried the same thing in the past, but in the end the truth shone through. They rue the fact that lies have short legs. Unrepentant, they insist on slander and slander and even do not hesitate to use the most immoral tactic again, which is to target wives and families.
Unfortunately for them and for those behind them, the only victim in this attempted character assassination is their personal credibility. Let's not discuss journalistic ethics. They have already deleted that from their personal agenda.
