ERT offers to hold televised debate for candidates for New Democracy’s leadership

Kyriakos Mitsotakis’s associates confirmed that he accepted participating

Greece’s public broadcaster ERT has sent out invitations to the candidates for New Democracy’s leadership, asking them to take part in a televised debate, according to announcements issued by some of the candidates.

Kyriakos Mitsotakis’s associates confirmed receiving the invitation and said that Mitsotakis had accepted immediately without any terms or conditions

Also, Evangelos Meimarakis’s associates confirmed receiving the invitation and stressed that they were not against the idea but they wanted to discuss it first with the other candidates and the party committee to  decide whether there should be just one debate or several.