“Obviously, there will be significant changes in faces, this was to be expected,” the prime minister replied. Kyriakos Mitsotakis respondents his interview with ERT, if the next government will have different faces than the current ones, adding: “And there will definitely be more women.” In the same question, but in a different part, Mr. Mitsotakis also commented on the state of the staff, leaving open the issue of interference with the work order: “We will definitely improve the government work order. I believe that what we call the state staff fulfilled its mission in the sense that it coordinated the work of ministers, set goals, set rules for accountability and coordinated a number of policies that required cooperation between ministries.

Referring to the atmosphere on the eve of the elections and the attitude of the official opposition, Mr. Mitsotakis assessed that “Mr. Tsipras coping with defeat” and “appears to be preparing to challenge the election results.”

When asked about this, Mr. Mitsotakis said that what Mr. SYRIZA it’s something like “citizens will vote for SYRIZA, but eventually New Democracy will come out”, adding that “if you can see where the logical conclusion of their arguments leads, I have no doubt that they will end up saying it too”, then is that it was a scam. He added: “I understand that Mr Tsipras manages his defeat, but there are limits to how much he can discredit the country abroad. And, in any case, there is also a clear conflict with the reality that all citizens experience.”

As for the emerging climate, the Prime Minister, without touching specifically election time, noted that he would not follow the “toxic climate of SYRIZA”, which “has been attacking the government for 3.5 years without an alternative proposal.” “I have no intention of following this model of confrontation. I want to speak positively about the future of this place. First of all, this is of interest to citizens. Let me explain that we have gone through many trials. We endured, we stood. We have achieved quite a lot, together with society we can achieve much more,” he concluded.

Mr. Mitsotakis assessed (on ERT) that “Mr. Tsipras has been defeated” and “shows that he is preparing to challenge the election results.”

Support measures

Asked if the incentives he announced were the latest, he said, “I estimate that with the latest announcements we’ve made based on our budget projections, we’ve exhausted our options for the next period.” And he added that “the actions that we are taking now are being evaluated and are within the fiscal capacity of the Greek economy. These are movements that are needed to support people who make ends meet,” not “benefits with loans.”

Turkey

Regarding the earthquake in Turkey, he stressed that in case we cannot solve our main issues, the most important of which is the delimitation of maritime zones in the Aegean Sea and the Eastern Mediterranean, at least “be able to coexist, cooperate in other areas of policy” . Mr. Mitsotakis expressed hope that the earthquake could bring the two countries closer. He added that the tragic earthquake in the neighborhood showed that “in the end, neither the Greek nor the Turkish people were affected by toxicity.”