A clear message in favour of a radical change in the way the public sector operates was sent by Kostas Skandalidis, a historic PASOK leader and former minister, Kostas Skandalidis, referring to the need to review tenure.

In statements to SKAI, Skandalides referred to the complete lack of implementation of the law he had passed in 2003 on the evaluation of the administration based on objectives, results, and efficiency indicators. As he recalled, the same law was re-voted in 2009 under the New Democracy government, but was never implemented.

“The evaluation of the Greek state is a laughing matter,” he said. Criticizing the government, the former minister wondered: “We come every time and say evaluation. Will Mr Mitsotakis’ state do an evaluation?”

Elsewhere in his remarks, Skandalides took a position in favor of the constitutional abolition of monitarianism in the public sector, but stressed that this alone is not enough. As he said, “I am in favour of the abolition of tenure being passed by the Constitution,” noting, however, that “there are no administrative units that are judged based on their work over a certain period, so that the employee can then be evaluated.”

For the former minister, what is needed is a total restructuring of the state function: “First you change the structures and then you start evaluating based on specific criteria,” he stressed.