Text in favor of self-reliance of the ND Kyriakou Mitsotakis in the June 25 elections, 23 Greek academics from universities in Greece and abroad, as well as from research centers, are co-signing.

The academics come from renowned universities abroad (Harvard, MIT, Northeastern, Wellesley) but also from Greek universities, Pantei, Ioannina, Thrace, Crete, Thessaly, Cyprus, Piraeus, as well as from research centers (NIH, IIVEA, ITE).

In their intervention, the academics point out that they are signing the text to express their support for the necessity of a self-reliant government under Mr Mitsotakis in next Sunday’s elections “to effectively address the crippling pathologies and entanglements that characterize our political and economic system “.

“The hopeful result of the May election will mean nothing if it is not confirmed again and decisively in the upcoming elections of June 25″ it is pointed out.

As the academics point out, “these elections should produce a government with a strong reform agenda and with such broad parliamentary power as to implement undividedly and unhindered the necessary reform agenda beneficial to society but, at the same time, a condition for the survival of our country in the troubled times that are coming with the world in geopolitical restructuring”.

In detail the academics’ text entitled “Supporting academics in governmental self-reliance under Kyriakos Mitsotakis”

“The results of the May 21st elections constitute an important victory for the social forces of European modernization who find in the political proposal of Kyriakos Mitsotakis and, by extension, in the political body he leads, the main expression of the reform demands whose implementation we consider as a necessary condition for progress in our country.

They constitute, at the same time, a questioning of those forces that, regardless of how they describe themselves, proved to be the expressions of inertia, of barren, conservative and sterile political discourse, of an anachronistic and dead-end political practice. The forces that remain stuck in the memorable era of the indignant, of blind rage, refusing to see the demands of the new era with modern characteristics, which the country is already entering. Their flattening and catastrophizing cultivated inertia, regression and denial of progress and creation.

It is our strong belief that what is required for our country to progress, in order to gradually evolve into a modern European country, is the unwavering persistence in the implementation of bold, decisive and deep reform cuts that will transform the state into a modern, humane , functional and effective tool at the service of the country and civil society, while, at the same time, they will reform the production model by encouraging those creative forces of our economy that will make it competitive and dynamic, able to face positively the challenges and demands of the rapidly approaching “tomorrow”.

In order to do all of this and to deal effectively with the addictive pathologies and anchorages that characterize our political and economic system, which in combination with anachronistic mindsets hinder and are a brake on every attempt at development, it takes time, perseverance, planning, but, above above all, determination!

What is needed today is a modern, institutional political organization, a productive model of development and production of wealth and its distribution in terms of justice, social responsibility and solidarity.

The promising result of the May election will mean nothing in substance if it is not reaffirmed decisively in the upcoming elections on 25 June.

These elections should show a government with a strong reform agenda and with such broad parliamentary power as to implement undividedly and unhindered the necessary reform agenda beneficial to society but, at the same time, a condition for the survival of our country in the turbulent times that are coming with the world in geopolitical restructuring.

For these reasons, in the June 25 elections, supportwith the reform agenda as expressed by Kyriakos Mitsotakis, believing in the necessity of his broad parliamentary majority.

  1. Dimitris Vavvas Professor at Harvard University
  2. George Vasilopoulos, Professor, University of Thessaly
  3. Thanos Veremis, Om. Professor at the University of Athens
  4. Dimitris Georgopoulos, Om. Professor at the University of Crete
  5. Ioannis Giannas, MIT Professor
  6. Achilleas Gravanis, Professor University of Crete/Northeastern/ITE
  7. Ioakeim Gryspolakis, Former Chancellor of the Technical University of Crete
  8. Maria Constanti, Professor at the University of Ioannina
  9. Evangelos Manolopoulos, Professor of Democritus University of Thrace
  10. Andreas Margioris, Om. Professor at the University of Crete
  11. Panagiotis Metaxas, Professor at Wellesley University/Harvard
  12. Giorgos Papazisis, Professor, AUTH
  13. Konstantinos Stratakis, Director of Research ITE/NIH
  14. Elizabeth Johnson, Dean of the European University of Cyprus
  15. Plato Tinios, Associate Professor, University of Piraeus
  16. Stavroula Tsiara, Professor, University of Ioannina
  17. Efi Tsilibari. Associate Professor, University of Minnesota
  18. Kostas Yfantis, Professor of Pantheon University
  19. Ioannis Charalambopoulos, Associate Professor, University of Crete/ITE
  20. Aristides Charonis, Director of Research IIVEAA
  21. Kimon Hatzibiros, Om. NTUA professor
  22. Giorgos Chrousos, Om. Professor, University of Athens/NIH
  23. Kostas Yfantis, Professor of Pantheon University”