Beleaguered incumbent Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on Tuesday sat for questions in the studio of his harshest media critic, Athens-based Skai TV, personally overturning an “embargo” against the outlet by his government and ruling SYRIZA party, days before a general election where forecasts show him losing.

From Cyprus, where he is in order to attend the funeral of the former President of the Republic of Cyprus, the Prime Minister of Greece during his visit to a camp of ELDYK (Greek Forces in Cyrpus) passed his own messages and “responded” to all that Recep Tayyip Erdogan had said earlier. The latter, insisting on the provocative tones, stressed that no matter what the Greek Prime Minister says, the drilling will continue.

In an article entitled “Mitsotakis buoyed by Greeks’ desire for change after Syriza era”, Athens correspondent Kerin Hope writes that Greeks are ready for a change and vote for the centre-right leader of New Democracy (ND) Kyriakos Mitsotakis.