Kyriakos Mitsotakis

Though the initial current of support for New Democracy may have come from the deep public consternation with SYRIZA’s broken promises and over-taxation, it now appears to be taking on the character of a positive vote for ND.

Though a solid majority has already decided who they feel is best suited to manage the country’s future, the next few weeks will be decisive in determining the power balances in the next Parliament.

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.

Mitsotakis categorically declared that he will not fire any civil servants and that he will not have any future cooperation with former Pasok leader Evangelos Venizelos, who on 1 June left the Movement for Change

The financial daily reports that investors are already buying up Greek stocks as they view the electoral results to date as the prelude of a victory for conservative-liberal New Democracy.

Konstantina Kouneva became a heroic figure of the trade unionist movement in Greece as a fervent advocate of the rights of cleaning women who provide services through outsourcing.

Mr. Tsipras has depicted himself as the protector of the poor and vulnerable and his opponent as a monster out of the Book of Revelation which has come to suck the blood of the people.

In the month-long general election campaign, ND and SYRIZA will work toward limiting defections to other parties. ND will call on the electorate to hand it a strong single-party absolute majority in Parliament

The move came immediately after main opposition New Democracy leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis demanded that Tsipras resign and call a general election.

Mitsotakis’ choice of Thessaloniki to wrap up his campaign was linked to his staunch opposition to the Greece-North Macedonia Prespa Agreement, which is extremely unpopular and a vote-getter there.

The Supreme Court Prosecutor said that the Volos judicial council had wrongly interpreted the provisions of the penal code that apply to the case and that N17's top gun was formally entitled to the furlough.

New Democracy’s MEPs will immediately after the 26 May Europarliament election actively promote recognition of the Pontian genocide, and the same will be done by the party’s representatives in the Council of Europe.

“Mr. Tsipras lies seven days a week,” Mitsotakis said after the vitriolic response of the PM’s office to his comment on flexible labour relations.

Both Tsipras and Mitsotakis called on the electorate to treat the 26 May European Parliament election as a referendum on their parties’ political programmes.

Mr. Tsipras has a tendency to highlight the supposed scandals of others and to justify his own pompous behaviour as he retains the privilege of judging everyone.

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.

Mitsotakis and other top MP cadres are stressing that Polakis who is known for his vulgarity and Tsipras who covers for him are one and the same thing.

Tsipras first threw down the gauntlet in Parliament and today SYRIZA spokesperson Rania Svigou reissued the invitation in a letter to New Democracy spokesperson Maria Zacharaki.

For its part, the government has said that it has the requisite fiscal space to rescind the law and that it intends to do so, but the European Commission views the measure as a structural reform, not as a revenue-raising measure.