The President of New Democracy (ND) Kyriakos Mitsotakis called on Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras to resign if he loses in the upcoming EP elections on May 26.

The European Union must send a clear message to Turkey, so that it stops its illegal activities in Cyprus' Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ), Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras underlined during the informal EU leaders' summit taking place here on Thursday.

The parliamentary debate on the vote of confidence following the motion of censure of the main opposition against Deputy Health Minister Pavlos Polakis, evolved in a head-on collision on all political issues between the Prime Minister and the President of New Democracy.