Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis focuses his pre-election tactics on everyday life, emphasizing the issues of the economy, security and infrastructure, which are at the heart of his interventions.
At the same time, entering the final stretch for the European elections, the party machines are revving up, with tours of ministers and parliamentarians throughout the country, while the dilemmas of the ballot box are posed more imperatively.
Mitsotakis in Rentis today
In the morning, Mr. Mitsotakis will visit the market in Rentis, wanting to send the message that the battle against punctuality is ongoing on the part of the government, which continues to take measures to deal with it. Today the application for the “Godfathers’ Basket” with 12 categories of products starts, while on Wednesday the “Easter Basket” will come into force, to which four new categories of food are added, the traditional ones of the Resurrection: lamb, goat, buns and Easter chocolate eggs.
The Prime Minister, in the past fortnight, focused on the positive news on the economy from the S&P report and the potential it gives for “permanent increases in wages, pensions and benefits to support households”, acknowledging that “inflation is gnawing away part of the income”. It also makes it clear ahead of Easter that controls on the market will be intensive and fines will be imposed in order to deal with the phenomenon of profiteering.
Mitsotakis tours throughout the country
In the next 49 days until the European elections, Mr. Mitsotakis aims to visit all regions of the country following a dense tour program, as he did in the national elections of 2023. Ministers and MPs of the party will also be on the road to rally the base of the ND and the voters who supported it in the previous contests. In Piraeus, there will be a meeting between Mr. Mitsotakis and ministers who will undertake to pre-electionally “run” the 13 regions of the country as heads of party ranks, as was decided at the meeting of the election campaign committee that met on Saturday.
According to reports, the Minister of National Defense Nikos Dendias will take charge of Central Macedonia, while Adonis Georgiadis will take charge of Eastern Macedonia. In Northern Greece, the ND faces the greatest pressure from its right and will be given a lot of weight in the next period. According to the same sources, Kostis Hatzidakis will be in Thessaly and Kyriakos Pierrakakis in Crete. Mr. Mitsotakis is “warming up” the climate with the Parliamentary Group and will gradually see all the MPs.
The beginning is expected to take place today at Megaros Maximos with the MPs from the Aegean islands. On Tuesday the prime minister will attend the delivery of another key road project, the southern section of the E-65 highway from Lamia to Kalambaka.
