Greek PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis said national elections would be held in 9 months during his address at a cabinet meeting on Tuesday. The PM also referred to the current energy crisis, stressing that as long as Moscow used natural gas as a weapon, the crisis will deepen.

Mitsotakis also warned that if something drastic is not done at the European level, then “major countries are at risk of collapse”.

The Greek PM had submitted proposals several months ago for establishing a cap on the wholesale price of natural gas and decoupling the price of electricity from the price of natural gas. “What Europe is discussing today, Greece has implemented at the national level since July with the Mechanism that recovers profits from companies at the source to return them as support to society,” he emphasised during the meeting. Meanwhile, the need to save energy and limit consumption was highlighted, firstly in the public sector – while the government spokesman ruled out today the prospect of planned electricity outages to curb demand.

Greece has done a lot in the field of supporting households and businesses, the prime minister also said. “The government will continue to do everything it can”, he added, to clarify afterward that “we will not give in to pressure beyond the maximum limits given to us by the General Accounting Office of the State and the Ministry of Finance”.

This crisis, the prime minister stressed, has common characteristics with the pandemic in terms of its potential consequences for the economy.

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