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Mitsotakis, since his election, has applied increasingly neoliberal policies with privatizations and reducing of workers' rights. | Mitsotakis, since his election, has applied increasingly neoliberal policies with privatizations and reducing of workers' rights. | ||
Mitsotakis has received criticism for heightened [[corruption]] during his term,<ref name=":1">{{cite web |date=22 August 2022 |title=The Rot at the Heart of Greece Is Now Clear for Everyone to See |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/22/opinion/greece-mitsotakis-predator-spyware.html |access-date=2 September 2022 |website=New York Times}}</ref><ref name=":2">{{ | Mitsotakis has received criticism for heightened [[corruption]] during his term,<ref name=":1">{{cite web |date=22 August 2022 |title=The Rot at the Heart of Greece Is Now Clear for Everyone to See |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/22/opinion/greece-mitsotakis-predator-spyware.html |access-date=2 September 2022 |website=New York Times}}</ref><ref name=":2">{{Citation |last=Tsimitakis |first=Matthaios |date=2022-09-21 |title=Greek PM's Wiretapping Scandal Can't be Justified by Foreign Threats |url=https://balkaninsight.com/2022/09/21/greek-pms-wiretapping-scandal-cant-be-justified-by-foreign-threats/ |access-date=2023-04-30 |website=Balkan Insight |language=en-US}}</ref> as well as a deterioration of [[freedom of the press]] in [[Greece]].<ref name=":3">{{Citation |date=8 August 2022 |title=How Greece became Europe's worst place for press freedom |url=https://www.politico.eu/article/greece-became-europe-worst-place-press-freedom/ |access-date=2 September 2022 |website=Politico}}</ref><ref name=":4">{{Citation |date=23 April 2022 |title=Greece: Media freedom under assault |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2022/4/23/greece-media-freedom-under-assault |access-date=2 September 2022 |website=AlJazeera}}</ref><ref name=":5">{{Citation |date=15 May 2022 |title=The worrying decline of press freedom in Greece |url=https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2022/05/15/the-worrying-decline-of-press-freedom-in-greece_5983579_4.html |access-date=2 September 2022 |website=Le Monde}}</ref> His term was marred by the [[Hellenic Republic#Government Surveillance|2022 wiretapping scandal]]<ref name=":6">{{Citation |date=30 August 2022 |title=Greek 'Watergate' tarnishes reputation of Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis |url=https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2022/08/30/greek-watergate-tarnishes-reputation-of-prime-minister-kyriakos-mitsotakis_5995271_4.html |access-date=2 September 2022 |website=Le Monde}}</ref> and the [[Hellenic Republic#Tempi train crash|Tempi Train crash]].<ref name=":7">{{Citation |last=Ritchie |first=Eleni Giokos,Hannah |date=2023-03-05 |title=Greek protests over train crash flare despite prime minister's apology |url=https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/05/europe/greek-prime-minister-apologizes-intl/index.html |access-date=2023-04-30 |website=CNN |language=en}}</ref> | ||
Mitsotakis has also supported [["Israel"]] during the [[Operation Flood of Al-Aqsa]], implicitly calling Palestinians "uncivilized people". | Mitsotakis has also supported [["Israel"]] during the [[Operation Flood of Al-Aqsa]], implicitly calling Palestinians "uncivilized people". |
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Kyriakos Mitsotakis Κυριάκος Μητσοτάκης | |
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Born | 4 March 1968 Athens, Greece |
Political orientation | Neoliberalism Imperialism Anti-immigration Zionism |
Political party | New Democracy |
Kyriakos Mitsotakis is a Greek politician who is the current prime minister of Greece and the current leader of New Democracy.
Policies
Mitsotakis, since his election, has applied increasingly neoliberal policies with privatizations and reducing of workers' rights.
Mitsotakis has received criticism for heightened corruption during his term,[1][2] as well as a deterioration of freedom of the press in Greece.[3][4][5] His term was marred by the 2022 wiretapping scandal[6] and the Tempi Train crash.[7]
Mitsotakis has also supported "Israel" during the Operation Flood of Al-Aqsa, implicitly calling Palestinians "uncivilized people".
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- ↑ Greek PM's Wiretapping Scandal Can't be Justified by Foreign Threats (2022-09-21).
- ↑ How Greece became Europe's worst place for press freedom (8 August 2022).
- ↑ Greece: Media freedom under assault (23 April 2022).
- ↑ The worrying decline of press freedom in Greece (15 May 2022).
- ↑ Greek 'Watergate' tarnishes reputation of Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis (30 August 2022).
- ↑ Greek protests over train crash flare despite prime minister's apology (2023-03-05).