Greece’s Prime Minister Kiriakos Mitsotakis confirmed Saturday that general elections in the country will be held sometime this spring, after government sources told national media last week that the polls would be called «from April onwards».
Finally, and during an appearance before the media in the city of Alexandropolis, in the northeast of the country, the Prime Minister confirmed the approximate date «given that by then the Government will have practically exhausted its four-year term of office».
«We have left behind three and a half years of government. The citizens know what we have done well and what we have done badly but, above all, they know the major crises that we have dealt with effectively,» he said.
«That is why I can look them in the eye and tell them my plan for the next four years. And believe me when I tell you that I can execute it. Because what I promised in 2019 I ended up fulfilling,» he mentioned in comments reported by the ‘Kathimerini’ daily in its digital edition.
The leader of the New Democracy party, which is ahead in the latest opinion polls, has added that he intends to run as a candidate in Evros, of which Alexandropolis is the capital, for symbolic reasons related to migration.
In 2020, tens of thousands of asylum seekers attempted to cross into the European Union across Greece’s land border with Turkey at Evros after Ankara announced it would no longer prevent migrants from trying to cross.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
