PM to brief parties amid acrimony

Amid acrimony between the government and main opposition SYRIZA over the outcome of his talks on Tuesday with US President Donald Trump, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis is to brief the leaders of opposition parties on Friday and Monday about the visit, as well as key foreign policy issues.

He will first meet with SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras at noon, followed by Fofi Gennimata of the Movement for Change (KINAL) at 1 p.m.

He is then to receive the head of the far-right Greek Solution party, Kyriakos Velopoulos, and then the leader of MeRA25, former finance minister Yanis Varoufakis.
He will brief the leader of the Communist Party (KKE), Dimitris Koutsoumbas, on Monday.

Deriding the visit as a "fiasco," SYRIZA said it depicted Greece as "a sidekick of international developments" and that Mitsotakis "gave everything and got nothing in return."
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