No holiday from rancour over Athens wildfire as PM accused of downplaying damage

PoliticsGreek Politics Tags: Fires, Mitsotakis, New Democracy, PASOK, SYRIZA
Photo by Panayotis Tzamaros/Fosphotos
Photo by Panayotis Tzamaros/Fosphotos

Greece’s political leadership used the traditional wishes on the Dormition holiday to express solidarity with the victims of the catastrophic Athens wildfire, but PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis’s message calling for unity was slammed by opposition leaders who accuse him of opportunism.

Mitsotakis spoke from Crete on Thursday, where he attended a church service close to his family home, to thank the emergency services, volunteers and the armed forces for responding to the fire which incinerated 10,000 hectares on the fringes of the cap...

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