One of his sentences Kyriakou Mitsotakis in a new tour that he held on Saturday, this time in Attica – in Kallithea – he ignited even more the already formed pre-election climate. “The climate already smells of elections,” the prime minister said, a phrase he had never uttered before, even when everyone assumed elections were just around the corner.

However, Mr. Mitsotakis’ statement only confirmed that the political system has entered the pre-election period, with only an intermediate stop during the upcoming holiday season. However, as soon as the New Year comes, we will have almost a full pre-election period, as polling stations will be appointed at the latest in four months.

Electoral Surprise

The country needs a government with two “full terms” to turn the page and rise to the next level, the prime minister said from London.

Mr. Mitsotakis’ statement re-ignited scenarios for a surprise election process in January. Competent government and party sources categorically deny the possibility of holding elections at the beginning of the year.

“This is not only wrong strategically,” indicates the source to “K”but “it’s technically impossible,” he adds, because “not all ballots are closed, and no one will take part in the elections, which take place 60 days from today.”

Like “K” wrote on Sundayat the moment, the prevailing scenario is that the elections will be held in early April, and the second – if it is deemed necessary, which is most likely – immediately after Easter, that is, in early May.

The rationale is that, on the one hand, what Kyriakos Mitsotakis said from the very beginning, that the elections will take place at the end of the term, will come true, on the other hand, winter, and together with the expected difficulties due to the energy crisis, will be behind us.

Self-sufficient N.D.

Mr. Mitsotakis, both from Kallithea, where he toured, and from London, where he was yesterday, made clear campaign statements about his party’s goals. “Now we are approaching the final stage of the 2023 elections, which will again bring ND. first and independent,” he said from Kallithea, adding the pre-election dilemma: “Are we going to keep going forward and upward or will we return to the past that we have forgotten?”. Yesterday, in his speech at the Hellenic Investment Conference hosted by the Athens Stock Exchange and Morgan Stanley, Mr. Mitsotakis again referred to the dual elections, which he stressed “should not worry investors” because “a second election will be held very quickly after first”, and there will be a period not of months, but of weeks, perhaps “four, five, six weeks of an interim government between two elections.” In addition, the Prime Minister again raised – which will be done constantly from now on – the dilemma of elections: “The comparison is clear. Four years of Tsipras and SYRIZA, four years of Kyriakos Mitsotakis and New Democracy. We have our own way with affairs, they have their own way,” he stressed, adding that the country needs two “full terms” to “turn the page” and “raise the bar.” pre-election climate, as he did on Saturday when he appeared on Natalia Germanu’s midday show, a variety show with a predominantly female audience.