Main opposition New Democracy party leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Thursday that the conservative party would not participate in the discussion on changing the election law, after a meeting with Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras.
“For us, this discussion should take place at another time and be linked with a revision of the constitution,” Mitsotakis said, noting that the necessary neutrality for this discussion does not exist at the moment.
According to ND’s leader, the country needed stable governments and the “rules of the game cannot be changed ad hoc and in accordance with the tactical choices of the government.”
ND was currently only prepared to discuss issues relating to giving the vote to expatriates living abroad and on carving up the large constituencies, he said, since the present election system “serves the need for stable government.” He also noted that the prime minister had not presented specific proposals and once again called on Tsipras to agree to launching a discussion on revising the constitution, so that the next Parliament has powers to change the constitution.
Mitsotakis was the last of three opposition party leaders that met with the prime minister on Thursday, in meetings requested by Tsipras to sound out the common ground in efforts to change election law and revise the constitution. He had earlier met PASOK leader Fofi Gennimata and before that with Communist Party of Greece (KKE) leader Dimitris Koutsoumbas.
(Source: ANA-MPA)
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