ND leader vows justice and tax reform, boost to jobs and property assets

Opposition leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis plans to "restore the stature" of the justice system by appointing top judges with an "unimpeachable reputation," bolster the police and "immediately abolish" a ban on law enforcement officers on university grounds if his New Democracy party is elected to government in Sunday's snap polls.

"By September, when the new academic term begins, the asylum law will be abolished," Mitsotakis said in a wide-ranging interview with Skai TV on Monday morning, referring to plans to gentrify the downtown Athens area around the National Archaeological Museum, which neighbors the Athens University of Economics and Business, and the notorious Exarchia district.

The 51-year-old conservative leader said New Democracy also has a "very ambitious plan" for the long-term unemployed by providing orientation and training, stressing that "jobs not...