{"id":5936,"date":"2026-05-16T22:10:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T19:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=5936"},"modified":"2026-05-16T22:10:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T19:10:00","slug":"notis-mitarakis-at-the-nd-conference-third-term-self-reliance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=5936","title":{"rendered":"Notis Mitarakis at the ND Conference: &#8216;Third term, self-reliance&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"130\" data-end=\"431\">Message of <b>political stability<\/b>, continuation of <b>reforms <\/b>and claiming <b>a third self-ruling <\/b>government term was sent by <b>Notis Mitarakis<\/b> from the 16th Congress of New Democracy, while praising the leadership of <b>Kyriakos Mitsotakis.<\/b><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"433\" data-end=\"786\">During his speech, the former minister argued that Greece has finally left behind the period of <b>uncertainty<\/b> and the<b> risk of exiting the Eurozone,<\/b> noting that since 2019 to date the country has recorded higher <b>growth<\/b> rates <b>than the European average, a reduction in <b>unemployment<\/b> and a strengthening of the disposable <b>income<\/b> of its citizens.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"788\" data-end=\"1045\">Notis Mitarakis also stressed that the <b>government<\/b> has managed to increase <b>spending<\/b> on <b>Health, Education<\/b> and <b>National Defence<\/b>, presenting the country&#8217;s economic and fiscal performance as proof of <b>reliability<\/b> and effective governance.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1047\" data-end=\"1415\">Setting the political and economic <b>framework<\/b> for the next period, he said that the main national goal by <b>2030<\/b> should be the <b>convergence<\/b> of the incomes of Greeks with the <b>European Union<\/b> average, as well as the further reduction of <b>public debt<\/b>. <\/b>As he said, these goals can only be achieved through stability, <b>investment<\/b> and strong institutions.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1417\" data-end=\"1613\">He made a special reference to Prime Minister <b>Kyriakos Mitsotakis,<\/b> with whom he said he had worked at <b>critical moments<\/b> during his tenure at the ministries of <b>immigration and <b>citizen protection.<\/b><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1615\" data-end=\"1804\">&#8220;I was on the other end of the phone with the Prime Minister at the <b>triplex<\/b> and I am <b>proud<\/b> that there was a leader with judgment, knowledge and, above all, patriotic values,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1806\" data-end=\"2074\">At the same time, the Chios MP stressed that <b>New Democracy<\/b> remains the <b>dominant political force<\/b> even after seven years of government, describing the political strength of the government as &#8220;an <b>unprecedented success&#8221; <\/b>for post-communist standards.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2076\" data-end=\"2319\">Ahead of the next <b>elections,<\/b> he called on the party&#8217;s cadres to <b>unity and rallying,<\/b>noting that &#8220;no one is left over&#8221; and that the party has to gain from <b>strengthening<\/b> its institutional and collective functioning.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2321\" data-end=\"2456\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">Concluding his speech, <b>Notis Mitarakis<\/b> also gave the central political slogan for the next period: <b>&#8220;Third term, self-reliance&#8221;<\/b><\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Notis Mitarakis sent a message of political stability, continuation of reforms and claiming a third self-reliant term in government from the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5937,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5936","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\/5936","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=5936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}