Political leaders spent Easter holidays on islands
- Written by E.Tsiliopoulos
Several Greek political leaders chose the islands for the Easter holidays, as their schedules showed on Thursday.
Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, who arrived on Rhodes on Thursday, travelled to the island of Tilos for his Easter holidays with his family.
Main opposition New Democracy leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis was on Tinos, in the Cyclades, National Defence Minister Panos Kammenos is spending the holy week on the islands of the eastern Aegean, and Potami leader Stavros Theodorakis was at his home town of Drapania, in the Chania region of Crete.
On the other hand, PASOK and Movement for Change leader Fofi Gennimata celebrated with relatives in the Argolid, in southeastern Greece, Communist Party of Greece (KKE) head Dimitris Koutsoumbas celebrated at Omvriaki near Domokos, and Union of Centrists leader Vassilis Levendis spent Easter in Lamia and Katerini.
Parliament president Nikos Voutsis stayed in Athens during the holidays, and Greek President Prokopios Pavlopoulos, as announced earlier, attended Friday and Saturday church services in Kalamata, southern Greece.
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