The prime minister and president of New Democracy, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, gave an interview to the main news bulletin of Alpha and the journalist Antonis Sroiter.

The prime minister, a few hours after the meeting of the political leaders at the Presidential Palace, where it was decided to form a caretaker government under the president of the Court of Auditors, Ioannis Sarmas, is positioning himself for the results of the elections of May 21 and also for the strategy that the ND will follow ahead of the June 25 elections which will be held with enhanced proportional representation.

“I knew we were doing very well, I could tell from my contacts with the citizens. If you ask me if I expected the size of the victory, I would tell you no, that we would increase the percentage and votes and we would have more than twice the percentage of SYRIZA. For us, it is a big responsibility because it is a positive vote and not a vote against the opponent. We certainly won, and SYRIZA certainly lost too. But society also won, because we managed to change the paradigm of political behavior. Toxicity defeated. There was no prime minister in the post-colonial era who was more reviled than me. We have every reason to be optimistic, we have a lot to deal with. I hope our opponents got his messages, and make SYRIZA their self-criticism.”