A few minutes before the clock struck exactly 12 noon, Kyriakos Mitsotakis arrived in Vellideio at TIF. In a good mood and smiling, he welcomed the journalists who a few minutes later, one by one, would ask questions, giving him the opportunity to talk about the government’s reforms that aspire to correct the everyday problems that citizens face. Accuracy and the economy in general, the housing crisis, the contradictions in the Health system, were among the main issues on which the prime minister focused.
After all, it was these problems that displeased a portion of citizens and this was shown by the June ballot. It is no secret that the percentage received by the blue faction in the European elections did not satisfy Megaros Maximos and personally the prime minister. But it was not a bad result, as he wanted to clarify, but below expectations. It is a ballot box, as he said, that favors protest voting as well as abstention.
The smug Mitsotakis
Kyriakos Mitsotakis wanted to appear with an air of self-confidence, possibly smugness, in Thessaloniki. He put on ice the scenarios that want him to pack for Europe by emphasizing, jokingly, that he is not retiring. “I am prime minister and leader of the New Democracy and I have no intention of retiring,” he noted, ending by saying, however, that “2027 is a long way off. We live in a very unpredictable environment and, as I told you, it’s a bit smug to speak either for myself or to make predictions about what’s going to happen in 2027.”
He did not even rule out the possibility of self-reliance of the blue faction in the next national elections. In some disgust, he expressed his opinion saying that “I don’t think there is any other governance proposal for the country other than the one expressed by the government”. After all, it is a fact that when the prime minister unveiled the thousand-day program, or otherwise the government’s vision until the end of its term in 2027, everyone’s eyes were on SYRIZA.
The nails for SYRIZA, PaSoK
The stormy developments in the official opposition party also occupied the prime minister who asked journalists what was the latest being recorded from the Koumundourou front. However, when he received a relevant question about the opposition, he was particularly sharp. “SYRIZA is in a state of aphasia” he said while admitting that at that time everyone was waiting for developments.
He was also critical of PASOK. As Mr. Mitsotakis said, “”no to everything”, the description of a country in which almost all the citizens are, I would say, poor and destitute, does not fit today’s Greece”. “So it would be positive for our democracy to have an alternative proposal, but the proposal must be composed, documented and costed. Unfortunately, at the moment we do not see this,” the prime minister noted.
“I’m sorry” about PtD
It would be particularly interesting to know what the President of the Republic was thinking and feeling when she heard Kyriakos Mitsotakis defending her after a long period of paraphilology about whether or not she will renew her term in the Presidential Palace. The prime minister did not hide his discomfort with what has been circulating lately, especially after the European elections, about the future of Mrs. Sakellaropoulou.
“I’m sorry for recycling this conversation,” he replied sternly. “This debate will take place in January and until then I will say absolutely nothing, other than the fact that I respect and appreciate the President of the Republic. I’m saying exactly the same things I said before the elections”, confirming that the tenants of the neighboring buildings in Herodos Attikou continue to maintain excellent relations. Even in a more personal tone, Mr. Mitsotakis explained that this debate is unfair both for the person of Katerina Sakellaropoulou and for the institution. “However, I consider it very unfair both for her and for the institution that there is a continuous debate surrounding the person of the next President of the Republic before its time and I will ask all of you, I think, to we respect the institution first and foremost”, he said meaningfully.
Satisfaction for Beleri
Shortly before the end of the press conference, Kyriakos Mitsotakis also referred to the relations between Greece and Albania that were tested after the arrest and imprisonment of Freddy Beleris. The MEP of New Democracy, in fact, was in Vellideio on Saturday during the prime minister’s speech. On this matter, Mr. Mitsotakis said: “We have gone through a difficult time and I do not want to talk in detail about the case of Freddy Belleris. To express my satisfaction with the fact that he was with us at the International Exhibition and that this adventure, completely unfair and unnecessary, which he suffered, is finally over.”
The time of the interview was “held”, reverently, one would say, by the government representative, Pavlos Marinakis. He emphasized right from the beginning that journalists should ask a question so that everyone is given time and space. The interview ended a little after 2 hours after it started. When the television lights went out, Kyriakos Mitsotakis thanked the journalists who were at the 88th Exhibition, renewed their appointment for next year, stressing however that the work continues on the government project with the same intensity.
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