New Democracy

June, national elections will be held.

The fierce political battle between the central-right government and the parties that are either on the left or on the right of the new democracy has already begun.

As in all member states, so in Greece, citizens are worried about the high energy cost, the unemployment crisis and the migration.

According to the publications, poverty is the most important problem for the competitive majority of voters.

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Dimitris Keridis.

He is a member of parliament and a member of parliament... ...of the governing party of the New Democracy.

He was elected for the first time in 2019... ...and has been appointed Minister of Immigration and Asylum.

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In Greek news, A new nationwide opinion poll, following the Thessaloniki International Fair, gives New Democracy an estimated 31% of the vote, followed by the newly formed Greek Left Coalition at 15.9% and PASOK at 12.1%.

After a week filled with promises and policy announcements, the numbers suggest voters have for now changed very little.

Tensions also remain elevated in the Aegean after Turkey's foreign minister renewed criticism of Greece's military presence on the islands.

So clearly, with the legal case settled, Mitsotakis has tried to kind of boost incomes for public sector employees by giving them a really good chunk of the package allocation to them.

Also, another one that's quite interesting is that pensioners, which is a big voter group in Greece and a new democracy traditionally dominates, especially during the Mitsotakis era, they also will get a benefit.

Last year was 300.

That increases to 400 euros now.

It will be paid in November.

And that's going to take another 300 million of the package.

And then definitely, if there is one voter group and demographic that a new democracy wants to re-establish a better relationship, it's self-employed because three years ago they introduced that system of presumptive taxation or taxation based on objective criteria of income based on your living standards and this is bringing into the budget around i think 550 600 million and is affecting almost 450 000 self-employed and if you remember around the time when there were the initial reactions when the measure was introduced It was primarily lawyers that led both the media offensive and also the legal offensive against the measure.

So just to sum it up, the profile and the composition of the package just shows exactly where New Democracy is going to turn its attention and make sure that some of these voters that voted for it in 2023 will come back in the election next year.