Yiannis Kourtakis has responded to Antonis Samaras‘s statement regarding the front-page article published by Parapolitika, titled “Antonis Samaras: ‘Vote for me to oust Mitsotakis, and the day after I’ll shut down the party’ — Why the Prime Minister must not underestimate the man from Messinia.”
As Yiannis Kourtakis points out, although Antonis Samaras directly references the article and the possibility of forming a new party, he does not deny the substance of what is reported in it. “If I understood correctly, President Antonis Samaras, in his response to Tsoutsias, does not deny the Parapolitika front page — that he will form a party to damage the younger Mitsotakis,” he wrote in a characteristic Instagram post.
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The Parapolitika article reported that the former Prime Minister could attempt to establish a new political party with the goal of denying New Democracy an outright parliamentary majority, drawing in voters with the argument that his true aim would be to bring about a change of leadership within the party. In a new video by Antonis Samaras, Nikos Tsoutsias references the article, telling him that it claims he plans to form a party and then shut it down — as long as “Mitsotakis and his arrogant ministers lose their seats.” Samaras responds: “Is that what they’re writing? I don’t care who loses their seat. All I care about is that Greece doesn’t lose.”
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The full Parapolitika article: Antonis Samaras: “Vote for me to oust Mitsotakis, and the day after I’ll shut down the party” — Why the Prime Minister must not underestimate the man from Messinia
From the very moment Antonis Samaras began leaving open the possibility of forming a new political party, Kyriakos Mitsotakis appeared — in almost all his private conversations — to underestimate the electoral effectiveness of such a venture. He even went so far as to make predictions about the vote share a formation whose sole mission would be to deny New Democracy an outright majority could realistically achieve. “It won’t exceed 2%–2.5%,” the Prime Minister has persistently said, referring to the widely discussed Samaras party. Regardless of what Mitsotakis believes, however, it is becoming increasingly clear exactly what the politician from Messinia is aiming for. On one hand, he will seek to attract disaffected New Democracy voters by pledging that his primary goal is not to harm the party, but to free it from Mitsotakis’s leadership — a leader who delivered two consecutive outright majority governments and, above all, eight years in power. The sl
