PM planning to call political leaders’ meeting next week on health crisis

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis is planning to call a meeting of the country's political leaders next Friday to discuss the way forward in the management of the health crisis, government spokesman Christos Tarantilis said on Friday.

The meeting, he said in response to a call for such a gathering made earlier by the head of the main opposition, will be convened in Parliament so that "every party can submit its proposals in the open, and not behind closed doors."

"Dealing with the pandemic requires honest and realistic proposals. We look forward to them," Tarantilis told a press briefing in Athens hours after SYRIZA's Alexis Tsipras met with President Katerina Sakellaropoulou and requested that she call a meeting of political leaders.

Tarantilis also accused Tsipras of being "uninformed" by calling for the Greek government to take the initiative at the...