The maximum possible mobilization of New Democracy for “reaffirmation of the result” of May 21 in the showdown with the system of enhanced proportionality is the dominant goal of the new election campaign of Kyriakos Mitsotakis, who openly marks 40%+ as a… minimum threshold for the party. From the double slogan of the previous period “clear first – significant lead from the second”, Mitsotakis keeps only the first part, reformulated with the phrase “strong parliamentary majority” and this time without emphasizing the importance of the scope of the difference between in the first and second parties. “The score of the first match does not count, we start from the beginning”, he repeated himself on Friday morning in his television interview (ANT1). Behind Mitsotakis’ need to bring to the fore the need for “comfortable self-reliance” and overall behind the new quantitative goals of New Democracy mathematics of the second ballot are hidden which are different from the simple proportional system.

Once again, Kyriakos Mitsotakis emphasized that the ballot boxes on June 25 will be empty, seeking to ensure that there is no complacency in the New Democracy camp despite the wide victory in the first elections.

With a two-day road trip to four prefectures, which were (also) a personal election bet for Kyriakos Mitsotakis, he chooses to open the new cycle of his pre-election tours. With a final horizon of June 25, Mitsotakis places his homeland, Crete, at the starting point of the race.