Kyriakos Mitsotakis

Kyriakos Mitsotakis, leader of Greece’s major opposition party New Democracy (ND), underlined that the country was slipping into “an unprecedented institutional degeneration”, during his speech in parliament over the TV licences and the Supreme Court’s ruling on the case that effectively suspended the enactment of the law until its constitutionality was decided upon in a new meeting

Wednesday’s initial ruling by the Council of State (CoS) to accept the appeals by media owners on the unconstitutionality of the recent TV licensing tender, organised by the Greek government, has thrown a wrench in the government’s plans to move forward with official issuing of the auctioned TV licences, while it also stops its plans to shut down TV stations without a license until t

Kyriakos Mitsotakis, the leader of Greece’s major opposition party, New Democracy (ND), reiterated his party’s resolve to shed light on the circumstances and conditions that lead to the capital controls being imposed on the Greek economy during the first months of SYRIZA-ANEL in power in 2015.

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said his government managed to raise 256 million euros from the recent broadcasting tender which auctioned off four nationwide TV licences, because the limited number created more competition.

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said during the opening Monday of a parliamentary debate on corruption that his government was trying to clean up the mess created by the parties of the opposition, accusing them of perpetuating graft while they were in office.

Launching a parliamentary debate on corruption on Monday, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras accused the opposition parties of perpetuating graft that brought the Greek economy to its knees and said they had no right to berate his government which was doing the best it could to clean up the mess.

The government faces a challenging week, beginning on Monday when eurozone officials are to decide whether to unlock 2.8 billion euros in loans to Athens and culminating with SYRIZA's four-day party conference starting on Thursday.

The leader of the main conservative opposition New Democracy, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, is to begin a seven-day visit to the US on Tuesday.

Mitsotakis, whose party is leading leftist SYRIZA in polls by a wide margin, has been pushing for snap elections.

The President of major opposition party New Democracy (ND), Kyriakos Mitsotakis, unleashed a harsh attack against the current government on all fronts during his speech at the official inauguration of his party’s new headquarters in Moschato.

Conservative opposition leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis has repeated his call for early elections while accusing Greece's SYRIZA-led coalition of setting the economy back two years.

"We are ready to win the election and we are ready to govern," Mitsotakis said in an interview with CNBC.