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Greek government adopts carrot-and-stick approach to PASOK as Mitsotakis sets election targets
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has presented a New Democracy majority as Greece’s only realistic governing option, while keeping the door open to cooperation with PASOK and setting a 25% minimum electoral target


Greek PM at Proto Thema’s Greece Talks: No Turkish permission needed for Cyprus cable, third term crucial for Greece’s future, Tsipras coalition ruled out
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis addressed Greek-Turkish relations, the next elections, potential coalition partners, economic reforms and his political future during a wide-ranging discussion at Proto Thema and Travel.gr's Greece Talks 2026 conference in Athens

Mitsotakis moves systematically to defuse tensions: Funding package for municipalities follows criticism from within New Democracy
After Kalamata, Serres is next on Sunday, with more visits to follow as the effort to rally support continues alongside the government’s work

Marinakis: New Democracy will not back pre-investigation committee against Tsipras over changes to criminal codes, says it does not want to “criminalise political life”
Greek Solution proposes setting up a pre-investigation committee, but has only 11 MPs, while 30 signatures are required for a motion to be submitted to Parliament
Mitsotakis: Tsipras voted for the Paraskeuopoulos Law that released hardened criminals – He should tell us which debts he was repaying with the changes to the Criminal Code
“As it turns out, Tsipras’s rebranding is not a rebirth but a product repositioning” – “Greek-American relations have considerable depth and bipartisan support, so even if there is a change in Congress, it will not be to our country’s detriment”

Mitsotakis returns to Northern Greece with an eye on ND’s right wing – Behind the scenes of Bekiris’s departure
Kyriakos Mitsotakis will visit infrastructure projects in Kilkis, as areas in the north require even more systematic efforts to promote the government’s work and initiatives to support citizens

Mitsotakis launches party unity drive with regional visits and MP meetings as Turkish-Libyan Memorandum and Karamanlis speech cause headaches
Statements by ND MPs Dimitris Kairidis and Dimitris Kalogeropoulos on the Turkish-Libyan Memorandum have angered the Prime Minister’s Office, while Karamanlis’s intervention and Samaras’s barbs have brought internal party tensions back into focus

Mitsotakis: Single-party majority is the only political way forward – Pizza Fan is the ‘big fish’ we want to catch
The government has “both the ability and the will” to enforce the law everywhere, the prime minister told a public gathering in Vrilissia. He also took aim at Alexis Tsipras, saying he had left Greece with 18% unemployment and islands overwhelmed by migrants

What analysis polls reveal: The advantages and a major challenge for ND, as Tsipras loses momentum
Government fuel measures win approval even among opposition voters, the promise of a better future outweighs protest voting, and Kyriakos Mitsotakis retains a clear lead as the preferred prime minister

