Chasm between ND and PASOK widens

With the election campaign entering the final stretch, the confrontation between ruling New Democracy and PASOK has also intensified, with Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, in all his recent interviews, having particularly harsh words for Nikos Androulakis.

Speaking to ANT1 on Monday, the PM, once again, accused the PASOK president of getting "closer to SYRIZA" in a common front against him.

"They seem to have a common goal: that I not be the prime minister," he said.

Mitsotakis also dismissed talk of coalitions as he reiterated that at the moment "there are big differences between ND and PASOK," stressing that what the country needs is a single-party conservative government.

"The country needs stability with an independent ND," he said.

However, in order to achieve a single-party government, he must deactivate the "bomb," as he has described it...