Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis defended his government’s performance during its second term, from 2023, while taking aim at political opponents during a speech to supporters of the ruling New Democracy party in Athens’ Egaleo district on Monday evening.
“The stock of trust is reliability. I know there are still many difficulties. We promised that we would work very hard to make Greece a safer and stronger country every day. And what we promised, we did,” he said.
Addressing the cost of living, Mitsotakis argued that the only effective response to rising prices is higher wages. He also referred to Monday’s agreement with manufacturers and retailers, who have pledged not to increase shelf prices for the next two months in exchange for the government not renewing a profit cap on dozens of key consumer goods when it expires on Tuesday. The cap had been introduced amid the war in the Persian Gulf.
On fuel prices, the prime minister said that “supervisory mechanisms are on the alert” to bring prices down.
Turning to the political opposition, Mitsotakis said: “This is a response to those who emerge to recycle old promises and outdated slogans. We haven’t forgotten them. We haven’t forgotten the experiments that nearly drove us over the cliff. Greece is not a country that wants to return to a past it wants to leave behind for good,” he said.
