PM urges ministers to heed local vote warnings as opposition looks ahead

PoliticsGreek Politics Tags: Mitsotakis, New Democracy, PASOK-KINAL, SYRIZA

Kyriakos Mitsotakis called on his ministers to heed the warnings of the second round of the local elections, which saw New Democracy lose in five of the six remaining regional authority contests while also seeing the candidates the conservatives were supporting lose control of the country’s two biggest cities, Athens and Thessaloniki.

Mitsotakis insisted that the first Sunday, when ND-backed candidates won seven regional governorships and several municipalities, provided a more reliable interpretation of the public’s overall sentiment than the second round. The PM justified this by s...

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