{"id":7027,"date":"2026-05-23T09:28:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T06:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=7027"},"modified":"2026-05-23T09:28:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T06:28:00","slug":"kyriakos-mitsotakis-work-against-the-toxicity-of-the-opposition-no-more-rabbits-with-straws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=7027","title":{"rendered":"Kyriakos Mitsotakis: Work against the toxicity of the opposition &#8211; No more rabbits with straws"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From his tour of <b>Laconia,<\/b> <b>Kyriakos Mitsotakis<\/b> has outlined the main tactics <b>New Democracy <\/b>will follow on the road to the <b>elections.<\/b><br \/> <b><br \/>Consistency of words and deeds<\/b>with what has been done so far, and confidence for the years to come, is the formula for the New Democracy&#8217;s strategy on the road to the national elections <b>against<\/b> <b>the toxicity<\/b> <b>of the <b>opposition<\/b>.<\/a><\/b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>From his tour of Laconia, Kyriakos Mitsotakis outlined the <b>basic tactical <b>focus<\/b>that he will follow, focusing on the <b>issues that really concern citizens<\/b> and <b>not on those that the opposition deliberately attempts to highlight in an attempt to cultivate a climate of scandal and toxicity.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>In this context, <b>the response to the request for the establishment of a Commission of Inquiry into the case of the surveillance was negative, <\/b>without this meaning that the Mansion of Maximou underestimates the issue on which it has taken a series of <b>initiatives that have been recognized by the European Commission.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The case, as is known, <b>is being investigated by the Justice <\/b>and as far as the part of the possible involvement of state officials is concerned, <b>it has been decided three times clearly and at the highest level.<\/p>\n<p>In the government camp they stress that <b>they are not <b>determining their strategy and policy from the opposition that invests unilaterally in toxicity.<\/b><\/p>\n<p> This dimension was given even more clearly by Kyriakos Mitsotakis himself, speaking to citizens in Sparta and <b>calling on the ruling party&#8217;s executives to immediately start the race for the 2027 polls,<\/b> signalling that <b>the dilemma of the next elections will be which party can take the country forward, take the EU presidency, keep the country safe and guarantee progress and prosperity<\/b>at a time when, while politicians as a whole are being questioned, the government can look citizens in the eye and tell them that what it committed to in 2023, <b>kept its promise<\/b> and delivered.<\/p>\n<p> The Prime Minister made particular reference to the biggest problem facing society, which is of course none other than <b>accuracy.<\/b><\/p>\n<p> &#8220;You will hear a lot of promises. You will hear a lot of pledges. You will hear a lot of plans or science fiction scenarios. You&#8217;ll hear rabbits with rocks, you&#8217;re already starting to hear them. <\/b>We heard the same thing several years ago and you saw where we ended up. I have made a commitment to the citizens. We will never compromise the fiscal stability of the country. <b>Whatever we do will be within our means<\/b>,&#8221; he assured and said he was proud because the government has achieved the fastest reduction of public debt in seven years.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;In the coming months <b>we will be able to support Greek society even more.<\/b> But we will always do it within our means and <b>always with an eye on the future.<\/b> We are not going to undermine and we are not going to mortgage the great efforts we have made,&#8221; he stressed.<\/p>\n<p> Apart from accuracy, Mitsotakis referred to actions in Education and Health &#8211; including the inclusion of nurses in the heavy and unhealthy sector &#8211; and pointed out that these are the issues that concern citizens.<br \/><b>&#8220;I have made a conscious choice as prime minister and as president of our great party, not to engage and not to meet in the corridors of toxicity with the opposition,<\/b> but to continue to bend over the problems of citizens, to implement our government&#8217;s work and <b>try every day to make the lives of citizens a little better,<\/b> he stressed.<\/p>\n<p> The prime minister also visited the construction site where the <b>General Hospital of Sparta is being built.<\/b> Work is expected to be completed in 2027 and Mitsotakis spoke of an architectural jewel and a state-of-the-art hospital, which will be a <b>point of reference for the entire Peloponnese.<\/b> The hospital will have more than 140 beds, eight Intensive Care Units and will fully cover the range of medical and surgical specialties.<\/p>\n<p> There he had the opportunity to mention the investments with resources from the Recovery Fund. <b>&#8220;More than 90 new emergency departments in hospitals across the country, more than 150 health centres, will be delivered by August, when the Recovery Fund formally closes,&#8221;<\/b> he noted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From his tour in Laconia, Kyriakos Mitsotakis described the main axes of the tactics that New Democracy will follow in the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7028,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7027","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\/7027","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=7027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}