Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has apparently started to realize that the ruling conservative New Democracy party will hardly manage to achieve the necessary 30+% of the votes in the upcoming elections and secure a majority government like in the last two parliamentary votes.
Over the weekend, PM Mitsotakis made clear if the election result is around 25% for ND, the party leadership could face serious questions.
Responding publicly to speculation about his possible replacement before the next government is formed, Mitsotakis told Skai FM said:
“If I got 25% in the elections, they would be right to say all that,” Mitsotakis said in an interview with Skai FM, referring to reports circulating behind the scenes about replacing him “mid-course.”
He reiterated his goal of securing an outright parliamentary majority, arguing that the central issue was whether Greece could be governed stably during difficult circumstances.
“What matters the day after is not so much what I will do, or my own political future, but whether the country can be governed with stability,” he said.
Mitsotakis also defended his party’s ideological direction, invoking former conservative leader Konstantinos Karamanlis and arguing that politics should move beyond traditional labels of center, right and left.
Parliamentary elections in Greece are scheduled for spring 2027. Mitsotakis reassures and his supporters within New Democracy praise him as a “guarantee for stability” in the country.
However, Greeks are fed up with the ongoing and always rising high cost of living especially in food, energy and housing, as well as the many corruption scandals popping up once a month, at least.
His “enemies” within the party have already started “orders for a new suit” – as we say in Greece – and get ready for a internal party race for the next ND leader.
So far, ND is divided among the supporters of former prime ministers Karamanlis, Mitsotakis and Samaras and everybody is waiting to see whether the latter will indeed form his own party and participate iin the elections threatening the majority of ND.