Strong majority for New Democracy asked the New Democracy MP candidate, Giannis Oikonomouspeaking to “Mismatched” of SKAI.

In more detail what was stated by Mr. Housekeeper:

“We are asking for a strong majority, which will give a strong and secure Government. At June 25 we vote for Government – there may be a contest as to who will be the Opposition, who will dominate the Opposition with a narrative cultivated on an outdated basis – but the main stake is what Government there will be.

What is worth highlighting –it was analyzed by the Prime Minister and all the executives of New Democracy– is that it may not be at stake who will be the first or the second in this election – no longer based on polls, but based on the election result, although each ballot box is different – what is mainly at stake, during this electoral contest, is that a small change in the election result can make a difference in the future of the country.

For this very reason no complacency allowed, obviously no arrogance, conceit or feeling that everything is taken for granted. Every ballot box is different and New Democracy has never addressed Greek society by taking voting behavior for granted. However, given the characteristics – the parties that will enter the Parliament, the allocation of seats based on the electoral law – a difference of one to one and a half points will be particularly important for the Government we will have, the parliamentary majority that will exist and how we will proceed the next day.

We turn to the people, as we have done in the past, and ask for a strong mandate, a strong Prime Minister with secure autonomy to implement as quickly as possible changes, reforms and a policy, which the people have confirmed and applauded in May 21 elections.

The main priority of any policy must be efficiency. During the period of great inflationary pressure – not only in Greece but all over the world, because it was not “Mitsotakis precision”, but precision due to the global typhoon of overlapping crises – we chose a specific way of dealing with it.

The way we have chosen with a series of measures that have been –wage increase, benefits, “Household Basket”– have the result that our country has today significantly lower inflation in general, but also in food, from many other European countries, Spain included. Spain is running higher food inflation than Greece. The Spaniards made a hole in the water with the VAT on food and are being led to elections, among other things, for this. This is the best answer to a series of stereotypes and crowns of the type “the VAT should fall, but we have no control mechanism, the many are not controlled”. With all the measures we took we supported the Greek family, the family of four, much more than the benefit from the VAT reduction would have been.”