{"id":4741,"date":"2026-05-09T08:49:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T05:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=4741"},"modified":"2026-05-09T08:49:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T05:49:00","slug":"new-democracy-last-pre-conference-in-thessaloniki-on-national-issues-in-the-presence-of-mitsotakis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=4741","title":{"rendered":"New Democracy: last pre-conference in Thessaloniki on national issues in the presence of Mitsotakis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"597\" data-end=\"828\"> The sixth and final <b>ND<\/b> pre-conference is taking place today at <b>Thessaloniki,<\/b> a week before the <b>conference<\/b> of the party at the Metropolitan Expo, which is considered a key event for the start of the informal election period. <\/p>\n<p data-start=\"830\" data-end=\"1111\">Although the original plan called for the proceedings to begin in Thessaloniki, the curtain finally falls at Pavilion 10 of the <strong data-start=\"958\" data-end=\"965\">DETH<\/strong>. Let&#8217;s not forget that for the ruling party, the pre-conferences functioned mainly as a mechanism to activate the party base and contact with local organisations. <\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1113\" data-end=\"1435\">The focus today (9\/5) will be on <strong data-start=\"1162\" data-end=\"1181\">national issues<\/strong> and the country&#8217;s defense strategy. Specifically, <strong data-start=\"1221\" data-end=\"1244\">Kyriakos Mitsotakis<\/strong> is expected to emphasize Greece&#8217;s international alliances, the strengthening of its deterrent power and moves he will argue strengthen the country&#8217;s position in the region. <\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1437\" data-end=\"1862\">The prime minister is expected to refer to the <b>renewal<\/b> of the <b>Greek-French defence agreement<\/b>, arms programmes and the <strong data-start=\"1573\" data-end=\"1589\">Agenda 2030<\/strong> for the <strong data-start=\"1598\" data-end=\"1618\">Armed Forces<\/strong>.  <\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2243\" data-end=\"2488\"> Of particular interest is the ministerial panel, which includes <strong data-start=\"2325\" data-end=\"2342\">Nikos Dendias<\/strong>, <strong data-start=\"2346\" data-end=\"2370\">Giorgos Gerapetritis<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"2377\" data-end=\"2400\">Stavros Papastavrou<\/strong>, while the EU Transport Commissioner will also intervene.\u0395., <strong data-start=\"2461\" data-end=\"2487\">Apostolos Tzitzikostas<\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p>Before the pre-conference, <b>Kyriakos Mitsotakis will inaugurate the Museum of Findings from the excavations of the &#8220;Thessaloniki Metropolis&#8221; metro, <\/b>which is housed in the Metropolitan Park &#8220;Pavlos Melas&#8221;. Afterwards, <b>the Prime Minister will visit the Allied Cemeteries in the Municipality of Ampelokipi-Menemeni, paying tribute to the fallen.<\/b> The tour will continue at the Thessaloniki International Fair premises.<\/p>\n<p>At the opening of the conference, <b>The President of the Organizing Committee of the Conference, <b>Theodoros Roussopoulos,<\/b> the acting secretary of the Political Committee of the South-Western Party, will address the opening of the conference, <b>Stelios Kontadakis,<\/b> the General Director of the party, <b>Giannis Smyrlis,<\/b> the President of the ND Thessaloniki Executive Committee, <b>Zisis Ioakimovich,<\/b> and the President of the ONNED, <b>Orfeas Georgiou,<\/b> and the President of the ONNED, <b>Orfeas Georgiou. <\/b>Greetings will also be addressed by the regional governor of Central Macedonia, <b>Nana Aedona,<\/b> and the mayor of Thessaloniki, <b>Stelios Angeloudis.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\n    The sixth and last pre-conference of the New Democracy Party is taking place today in Thessaloniki, a week before the party&#8217;s congress in &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4742,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4741","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\/4741","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=4741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}