{"id":13033,"date":"2026-06-26T16:02:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T13:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=13033"},"modified":"2026-06-26T16:02:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T13:02:00","slug":"kyriakos-mitsotakis-played-backgammon-with-a-regular-at-a-coffee-shop-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=13033","title":{"rendered":"Kyriakos Mitsotakis played backgammon with a regular at a coffee shop (video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Kyriakos Mitsotakis<\/strong> during his <b>visit<\/b> to <strong>Nea Smyrni<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>During his visit to the area, the <b>prime minister <\/b>sat at a well-known caf\u00e9 on Omirou Street, where he chatted with citizens in a particularly friendly atmosphere and exchanged pleasantries with those present. <b>A particularly memorable moment was a game of backgammon with an elderly man, while he was enjoying his Greek coffee<\/b>. The most likely scenario is that <b>the two men were playing \u201cdoors\u201d<\/b>, but the match kept everyone at the scene thoroughly engaged.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<div class=\"embed-responsive\">   <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Earlier, a bystander handed the prime minister a small fan to cool him off, as the heat is quite intense today in Attica. <b>Omirou Street was packed with people, with dozens of citizens watching the match unfold and capturing the moment on their cell phones<\/b>. <\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tomanifesto.cachefly.net\/tomanifesto\/images\/placeholder.png\" alt=\"5237498.jpg\" data-dpc-media-id=\"191551\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/tomanifesto.cachefly.net\/image\/large\/96\/5237498.jpg\"><\/figure>\n<p>Meanwhile, <b>Kyriakos Mitsotakis<\/b> did not refuse to be photographed with anyone who asked him\u2014young and old alike\u2014in a relaxed manner that stood out during his tour.<\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tomanifesto.cachefly.net\/tomanifesto\/images\/placeholder.png\" alt=\"5237499.jpg\" data-dpc-media-id=\"191550\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/tomanifesto.cachefly.net\/image\/large\/96\/5237499.jpg\"><\/figure>\n<p>Next, the prime minister toured Omirou Street, the main shopping street of Nea Smyrni, where <b>he spoke with residents and shop owners about everyday issues<\/b>, and also took photos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kyriakos Mitsotakis offered a different view from the usual political tours during his visit to Nea Smyrni.<br \/>\n&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13034,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13033\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}