It was in 2019 when he first appeared on TIF as prime minister. Kyriakos Mitsotakis he ended his speech with a double reference to Eleftherios Venizelos. “I feel the need to end my first appearance as Prime Minister at the International Exhibition with two references from the past. But I think they retain all their strength and vitality,” he said, praising the great politician of Crete. In this way, the Prime Minister showed his respect for this historical figure, with whom he is related by blood, calling him then “a young radical politician” in his early years, in 1903, and “a mature visionary national leader”. now in the late 1920s. Crete tour yesterday ended with a visit to the historian Therisos, showing that the focus on the legacy of Eleftherios Venizelos is stable and concrete.

Kyriakos Mitsotakis made this very clear in interview he gave to “K” and Alexis Papahelas: The next government will be “the government of the new New Republic”. That is, the New Democracy in the form in which it has already taken shape. Today’s New Democracy has indeed changed from what used to be a continuation of the People’s Party. Today, it looks like a combination of the traditional right with a more liberal part that has intensified during Mitsotakis’s presidency, emphasizing the “rights” agenda, which in previous years was the privileged domain of the left. This strategy was greeted with applause in the voting when N.D. defeat SYRIZA in areas and communities that have never done it before center right.

According to the strategy of Mitsotakis, the seats in the next parliament will be in the same K.O. K. Karamanlis Jr., Nick. Kaklamanis, M. Voridis, and M. Chrysochoidis.

In addition, the primacy in recent elections of leaders who do not belong to the traditional party base, such as Kyriakos Pierrakakis And Michalis Chrysochoidis, is characteristic evidence of a change in the composition of what we call the party base. The current New Democracy, the “new New Democracy”, has already begun to be built in 2016 when Kyriakos Mitsotakis was elected president, and seven years later it is a new political mix that is moving from the right to the liberal-center-left.

“In the next parliament, Kostas Karamanlis Jr., Nikitas Kaklamanis, Makis Voridis and Michalis Chrysochoidis will be in the same parliamentary group,” talks about the characteristics in the “K” “blue” strain, wanting to formalize the various political components that make up the new New Republic. Although the change in the party base began, as expected, in 2016 with the integration of many PASOK executives and his takeover RiverKyriakos Mitsotakis balanced between government formation trends in his 2019 election victory. Today, this change has been confirmed by an overwhelming victory over the enemy, giving the new New Democracy popular legitimacy and Kyriakos Mitsotakis the opportunity to move forward, leaving traditional balances behind.

He also described this in his interview with K, stating that the next government will be “inclusive” and “emphasize meritocracy and the ability of leaders to carry out the mission I give them.” “I would tell you that I am more detached than in the past from the classic balances that a leader might have to strike.”