Him forearm for her polls June 9th the prime minister officially put in, noting that the comparison measure are the previous European elections. It is recalled that in the European elections in 2019, New Democracy gathered 33.12% and at least this percentage they want to catch this year as well. In fact, Kyriakos Mitsotakis noted that there are parties that want to reduce the European elections to a referendum against the government and underlined features “we we will pick up this gauntlet». To emphasize that the political message from the June confrontation must exude “stability, confidence and continuity”.
In the final stretch to the polls, the prime minister called on the citizens not to see the European elections as an opportunity “free protest”. And he referred to what is happening in “far right apartment building”saying that “probably with arbitrary built with lies and violence looks like this patchwork of parties that have entered the Parliament”.
The episode of Floros – Grammenos
Asked to comment on the episode between MPs Floros and Grammeno, Mr. Mitsotakis noted that “it is creepy and revealing” and underlined that it is not possible for the temple of the Republic to become a boxing arena. “We faced the Spartans from the first moment with actions, not words” he characteristically said, while at the same time he fired arrows at both the Hellenic Solution and the Victory party.
From the blue camp they criticize parties moving to the right for the fact that they try to use even sensitive issues to win votes. Kyriakos Mitsotakis spoke of effort commercialization her Christian faith (as if there is a “christianometer”) while he was also referred to “jalanji” patriotsof fresh water pointing out that patriotism is a difficult exercise, which is proven in action and not in easy words”.
It should be noted that today the Prime Minister together with the Archbishop of Athens and All Greece Hieronymos will visit structures of the Archdiocese in Delesi. The government is optimistic that the tones will drop in the next period and the goal is that there will be no isolated incidents in churches during Holy Week.
Arrows at SYRIZA and PASOK
“We have an opponent and he is the problems of the citizens” Kyriakos Mitsotakis noted once again, pointing out that “what happens in the center-left “apartment building” is their matter”. As for SYRIZA, he pointed out – on the occasion of failure to file a memorandum from Koumoundourou for the participation ban of Spartans at European elections – that “fascism and what it stands for cannot be fought with words alone. It has to be met with action and we were on the right side of history in this case.”
There was criticism of the official opposition for issues related to the economy, as New Democracy accuses SYRIZA of does not have a cost proposal for the next day. Among other things, Kyriakos Mitsotakis pointed out that: what we see from SYRIZA, it does not refer to a structured political proposal.
During yesterday’s interview, the prime minister also referred to the rule of law, while firing shots at the president of PASOK. Answering a related question, he pointed out that there is no perfect Rule of Law, hence the Commission indicates improvements in all countries and added that we have room for improvement but Greece is not the Hungary of the South. In fact, he accused Nikos Androulakis of being out of place and time saying that “on the occasion of a specific incident, for which answers have been given, it defames the country abroad…”.
For which topics is the discussion closed?
The prime minister closed the discussion on early polls by noting that even if the result of the European elections is not so good “the government will not collapse, nor will elections be called”. In fact, he fired arrows at Stefanos Kasselakis, without however naming him, saying “it is paradoxical that someone calls for early elections, when he has a threshold of 17% but that’s not about me.”
As for whether he will take over any European post noted that this discussion “can be to a certain extent flattering and honorable – the name of a Greek Prime Minister is not often heard for such important positions – but it doesn’t concern me at all”.
References to the national
In the Greek-Turkish field, the prime minister noted that “we will disagree on critical issues, but this does not mean that we will not talk”. As he said, the aim is to take a step further in the Greek-Turkish approach “which has yielded some important measurable results” and among other things he noted that we have no violations of Greek airspace for more than 12 monthswe have extremely reduced immigration flows and there is the issue of visa facilitation for the islands.
At the same time, Kyriakos Mitsotakis also referred to Ukraine, noting that Greece is not going to send either S-300 or Patriot. As he said, we were asked and we explained why we cannot do it, while he pointed out that they are critical systems for the protection of Greek airspace. It is recalled that in the past few days there has been an article by the Financial Times that stated that Greece and Spain are under intense pressure from their allies in the EU and NATO to provide more air defense systems to Ukraine.
