The candidates interviewed by Euronews express their optimism about the electoral result for their parties. However, all of them recognize that there is a serious risk of abstention.
The leaders of the Greek political parties They celebrate this Friday their last rallies elections to try to convince voters to go to the polls on Sunday, June 9. The candidates interviewed by Euronews express their optimism about the electoral result for their parties. However, all of them recognize that there is a serious risk of abstention.
“I believe that we will soon achieve a good result, which will act as an accelerator of events. I hope that we will govern as if we had received the message of being modestand humble, to promote the necessary reforms, in accordance with the mandate that the Greek people gave us in June 2023,” declares Evangelos Meimarakis, New Democracy candidate for European Parliament.
“I would like Syriza to be strong, powerful, to elect 4+1 MEPs, not to say 4+2 MEPs… achieve the results of 2019, to perform a good rolethat is consistent with our way of understanding the concept: having a modern left in the 21st century, in order to be useful to the people,” says Kostas Arvanitis, Syriza’s candidate for the European Parliament.
According to the latest opinion polls, the leadership of the center-right ruling party, New Democracy, is considered indisputable. The first Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis He enjoys the trust of voters, just one year after his re-election.
New Democracy is followed by the left-wing Syriza party, in second place in voting intention, and the center-left Pasok, which occupies third place on the list, according to polls.
“It has been an electoral campaign in which internal issues have once again dominated. Despite the fact that Europe is in a critical crossroadsI would say that internal issues have continued to dominate the electoral period. So, once again we have not talked about Europe, even though on Sunday we voted for the EU,” says Panagiotis Kakolyris, vice-president of the European Network of Political Foundations.
All surveys show that the main problem for greek voters is the skyrocketing prices of products and the crisis linked to the cost of living.
“High prices remain one of the main concerns of European citizens, but in Greece the issue has become a controversial internal political issue. At the same time, no serious European issues were discussed, despite the fact that two wars are currently taking place very close to Europe,” concludes Euronews journalist Fay Doulgkeri.
