Politicians on board with wage donations

There has been an overall positive response with regard to Monday's proposal by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis for his ministers, their deputies and MPs of the ruling New Democracy party to deposit half of their salaries for the next two months into a special state fund to respond to the coronavirus pandemic.

The PM's appeal was boosted further by President Katerina Sakellaropoulou, who made it known that she will be donating half her salary to the fund. 

In a statement, Sakellaropoulou's office said the president had decided to donate half her salary for the next two months "in view of the difficult financial circumstances in which the country finds itself due to the coronavirus pandemic." 

In making his appeal, Mitsotakis said that "as the government first mobilized with bold measures against the pandemic, so our country's political world must stand at...