“The first thing that is necessary for economic growth to be boosted is a stable government, a strong majority in the next parliament,” Mitsotakis told Reuters
Citizens cannot endure any more experiments and they seek liberation from the shackles of the long and relentless crisis.
The only thing that Mitsotakis and PM Alexis Tsipras admit that they have in common is the conviction that they must attract voting groups from scratch and that every vote counts.
'Today, Greece is not only a country that is a critical energy hub in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Balkans but is also starting to implement a plan that ultimately aims to turn it into an energy-producing country,' PM Alexis Tsipras said.
The incoming government must undertake specific initiatives to forge a national consensus and to shape a long-term strategy to defend Greece’s national sovereignty and broader sovereign rights under international law.
Tsipras’ central strategy is to deconstruct New Democracy’s main campaign narrative, that by lowering taxes one can spur a surge of investment that will create an economic take-off and create hundreds of thousands of well-paid new jobs.
“If for any reason a government cannot be formed after the 7 July election, then the country will ineluctably again head to elections in mid-August. Citizens should understand well what it means not to have a strong mandate on the night of 7 July,” Mitsotakis declared.
'The Greek prime minister speaks having by his side the EU, all EU member-states, and the vast majority of the international community in every corner of the world and especially in our region,' the Greek PM said while on a visit to Cyprus.
Friends, associates, and various public figures told Mr. Tsipras that Mr. Varoufakis was a dreamer with ideological fixations who would damage the country and him.
Tsipras had steadfastly demanded a second, one-on-one debate with Mitsotakis, as their parties are the only ones with a chance of forming a government, which New Democracy firmly rejected.
There are unpardonable aspects of the government’s record relating to its handling of institutions that are the pillars of democracy.
Kotzias heads a left-wing political grouping called Pratto and there was an understanding with PM Alexis Tsipras and SYRIZA that the movement would nominate 10-16 MP candidates nationwide.
Tsipras scrapped plans to hold elections in October after losing the 26 May European election to ND by a margin of 9.3 percentage points.
SYRIZA has begun the month-long campaign leading to the 7 July general election by erecting a polarising dichotomy between SYRIZA as the caring left-wing party that is the only bulwark against a grand restoration of neo-liberal austerity that it says is expressed by New Democracy.
Conservative austerity versus SYRIZA social benefits and relief for the vulnerable is the ruling party’s new Manichaean political dilemma for voters.
Within three years, Tsipras led a very small party to become one of the country’s top two parties, with a good shot at gaining power.
The Piraeus City Council candidate and Olympiacos FC leader said that at the most critical juncture in Greece’s recent history the country had the ill fortune to be led by “uneducated kids who negotiated the country’s future”.
The government is continuing the old party practice of cutting ribbons at half-finished public works in order to demonstrate their efficiency.
Both Tsipras and Mitsotakis called on the electorate to treat the 26 May European Parliament election as a referendum on their parties’ political programmes.
Tsipras said that the 10 May parliamentary confidence vote and the 26 May elections are both a confidence vote on the government's economic stimulus programme.