I consider it is my duty to get past the hurdle of simple proportional representation as quickly as possible and I am willing to return the exploratory mandate to you this afternoon so that we can hold elections, possibly on June 25th," Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said during his meeting on Monday with the President of the Hellenic Republic Katerina Sakellaropoulou, after receiving the first exploratory mandate for the formation of a new government following the elections.
Mitsotakis said that the country needs a strong government as soon as possible, with a four-year horizon, and insisted that "the best thing for the country is to discuss the real problems, how we will increase wages and how we will support the social state and to talk about the challenges and the issues that concern the younger generation".
He called May 21 election result a "step advancing to maturity" and reiterated that the result makes it clear that the conditions for the formation of a government in the present parliament do not exist.
Himare's recently-elected ethnic Greek mayor, Fredi Beleri, must remain in custody until trial.
In a statement, Georgoulis' lawyer Stamatia Malla said that Georgoulis had personally proposed to the competent Belgian judicial authorities that he appear and provide explanations, but this was not...
Talking about the upcoming elections on June 25, he said that labour issues will be one of the main issues at stake, promising that SYRIZA will support safety and security at work, restoring...
He revealed that his government's first bill, if ND wins the elections, will be to update the executive state and the second will concern priorities in tax policy.
He was re-elected with the support of all parliamentary parties except the Communist Party of Greece (KKE), whose MPs abstained.
In the list of countries with highest PV penetration, Spain comes first with 19.1%, followed by Greece at 17.5 %, Chile at 17% and the Netherlands and Australia at over 15%.
The citizens granted New Democracy a strong mandate to govern in the elections on May 21 and they must now "back up" this choice in the June 25 elections, ND President said.
After three difficult days of reflection, he noted, "the time has come to declare an end to mourning and to sound the battle alert," urging his party to "regroup immediately, without any delay," and...
Maintaining the focus on improving the business environment and banking sector, along with the implementation of milestones and reforms under a national recovery plan, will help support economic...
"Investors are hopeful that the New Democracy Party - the clear winner in Sunday's election though it fell short of an outright majority - will stay in power after a repeat vote in June and continue...
The swearing in ceremony was concluded with the traditional photo of all the members of the new caretaker government.
