PM uses island visit to highlight border control as Tsipras makes decentralisation play

PoliticsGreek Politics Tags: ELAS, Environment, Mitsotakis, New Democracy, PASOK-KINAL, Tsipras

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis used a visit to the Aegean island of Leros on Monday to sharpen the binary choice he wants voters to confront at the next election, contrasting the current state of border security and migration management with the record of SYRIZA-ANEL government he replaced in 2019.

Mitsotakis told residents that "another government" had believed "the sea has no borders" and had treated the islands as a reception centre for anyone seeking to enter the country unchecked. He said that under New Democracy flows had fallen sharply, tha...

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