Mitsotakis

Mitsotakis writes to European competition commissioner on Thanou nomination

Conservative opposition leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis has written a letter to the European Union's Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager on the issue of the government's nomination of former Supreme Court chief Vassiliki Thanou for the director's chair of the Hellenic Competition Commission.

Former Greek Minister Mitsotakis Wins New Democracy Leadership

Kyriakos Mitsotakis, a former Administrative Reform Minister, on Sunday narrowly won a vote determining the next leader of conservative New Democracy party.

This comes after Samaras stepped down as New Democracy chair on July 05, following a resounding "No" in a referendum called by the government of Alexis Tsipras on new bailout conditions proposed then by international lenders.