Kathimerini: Isn’t it time to call elections

The pro-government newspaper, in a front-page article, urges the prime minister to immediately announce the time of elections whenever he decides to hold them, stressing that “the country needs institutional responsibility and political stability.”

It seems that now all those who supported the ND and K. Mitsotakis, including the editor-in-chief Kathimerini, who found his name on the list of targets for wiretapping, believe that the longer Mitsotakis drags out the elections, the worse it will affect the interest, which the New Democracy can claim and which have long had nothing to do with the percentages that various opinion polls show. “So let them be announced immediately so that the horizon of the next months is clear, as it would be in most Western democracies,” the Kathimerini newspaper concludes in an editorial.

“The country needs institutional responsibility and political stability. One way to satisfy both needs is for the prime minister to announce the date of the election immediately, whenever he chooses to hold it. In the past, public life has been plagued by a game of conflicting early election leaks that were eventually debunked, and there are still many theories about likely election dates. So let them be announced immediately so that the horizon of the next months is clear, as it would be in most Western democracies.”

In an indirect response, government spokesman Giannis Ikonomou also favored holding elections as close as possible to the end of the four-year period. As he said, speaking to SKAI on Sunday morning, with the beginning of spring, electoral procedures can be expected. “We have the fact that there will be an election campaign that will not create a government because of the SYRIZA methodology with a mine of simple proportionality. Election procedures can be expected from spring. The ND has made it clear that it will seek the confidence of the people in itself so that decisions are made quickly and effectively,” he said.

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