Mitsotakis ousts critical MP as signs of unrest within ruling party start to surface

PoliticsGreek Politics Tags: Mitsotakis, New Democracy, Parliament, SYRIZA
Photo via www.primeminister.gr
Photo via www.primeminister.gr

The disquiet withing New Democracy, fuelled by the party’s underperformance in this summer’s European Parliament elections, was underlined by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’s decision to oust one of his MPs after the parliamentarian criticised government policy.

Government sources said that Marios Salmas, an MP from western Greece, is being expelled for behaviour that is detrimental to the party. The decision, which is due to be rubber stamped at a disciplinary hearing on Monday, came after Salmas made highly c...

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