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Kyriakos Mitsotakis Κυριάκος Μητσοτάκης | |
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| Born | 4 March 1968 Athens, Greece |
| Political orientation | Neoliberalism Imperialism Anti-communism 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
Neoliberalism
From 2019 onwards, Mitsotakis launched a wave of privatizations, including tourism infrastructure, coastal land, and state-owned shares in the gas and electricity companies and Athens airport. On the other hand, a tax reform aimed at making the country "a haven for billionaires and the wealthiest citizens", the imperialist Financial Times notes, has been implemented. The aim is to attract capital by offering low tax rates. A clause will protect the beneficiaries of this tax policy from possible policy changes by future governments, thus securing its continuation.[1]
The "big growth bill", adopted in the summer of 2020, provides for the restriction of the right to strike and the abolition of collective agreements, which had already been suspended in 2012 at the request of the neocolonial Troika and then reinstated by the Tsipras government. On environmental issues, the government reformed legislation to facilitate oil exploration.[2]
Autocracy
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,[3][4] as well as a deterioration of freedom of the press in Greece.[5][6][7] His term was marred by the 2022 wiretapping scandal[8] and the Tempi Train crash.[9]
Anti-immigration
Migration policy has been tightened: the coverage of hospital care for destitute foreigners has been abolished and the period during which refugees who have been granted asylum can reside in public housing has been reduced from six months to one month.[10]
Pro-Zionism
Mitsotakis has also supported "Israel" during the Operation Flood of Al-Aqsa.
Political Positions
Anti-communism
Mitsotakis has said that the National Liberation Front, the primary resistance against the Nazi occupiers, was the worst historical period of Greece. [11]
References
- ↑ La Grèce va-t-elle devenir le paradis des milliardaires ? (7 December 2019).
- ↑ Le gouvernement grec profite du coronavirus pour faciliter l'exploration pétrolière dans ses eaux.
- ↑ The Rot at the Heart of Greece Is Now Clear for Everyone to See (22 August 2022).
- ↑ 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).
- ↑ En Grèce, Kyriakos Mitsotakis devance les désirs des créanciers (16 July 2020).
- ↑ “Νομίζω ότι όλοι μπορούν να βγάλουν τα συμπεράσματά τους από τις ιστορικές αναφορές που το κάθε κόμμα επιδιώκει να αναδείξει. Εμείς, ας πούμε, αναδεικνύουμε την αποκατάσταση της δημοκρατίας από τη Νέα Δημοκρατία και τον Κωνσταντίνο Καραμανλή. Εσείς επιμένετε να μας θυμίζετε τις χειρότερες στιγμές της ελληνικής ιστορίας και τους εμφύλιους διχασμούς, που αυτός ο τόπος πλήρωσε πολύ ακριβά”
"Μητσοτάκης για ΕΑΜ: Από τις χειρότερες στιγμές της ελληνικής Ιστορίας – Τσίπρας: Η Εθνική Αντίσταση είναι αναγνωρισμένη" (2023-02-07). Το Ποντίκι. Retrieved 2023-12-19.