“The elections have sent specific messages and these have been decoded by the government, which is why we have started specific interventions, such as for example the 30% taxation on the surplus profits of the refineries”, underlined the Minister of State, Akis Schertsos to .

Responding to rumors about possible contacts between Megaros Maximos and those dissatisfied with the reshuffle, Mr. Skertsos said that the prime minister is in constant contact not only with the entire New Democracy parliamentary group and local organizations, but also with all its members society.

“We have to get out of the office and listen to the complaints, obviously we don’t do everything perfectly. But the prime minister has proven that he is a conductor who effectively holds the baton and where necessary sets the tone for things to run faster. No one is irreplaceable, we are all useful for politics”, as he pointed out.

“”The results of the European elections have brought disruption to SYRIZA and PASOK”

In response to a question about whether there is concern in Piraeus about the shift towards the Center and the intervention of former Prime Ministers Costas Karamanlis and Antonis Samaras at an event on Monday, the Minister of State emphasized that Kyriakos Mitsotakis himself constantly invokes the patriarch Konstantinos Karamanlis, who in the ND’s founding declaration, it talks about its appearance and character as “a faction that serves the national interest, without looking to the right, left and center”, adding that “this is exactly what the prime minister serves, that is why he secured high percentages, which, however, are not facts”.

With reference to the raid of the Supreme Court’s counter-prosecution on the EYP offices for the wiretapping, he refrained from commenting on anything, as the investigation concerns the Justice and “the core of the rule of law is to let the Justice do its job, as it goes along with it and the development of the country”, while closing he also commented on the internal affairs of SYRIZA.

“The result of the European elections has brought turmoil to the two major opposition parties, which cumulatively do not have larger percentages than the ND”.