Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis plans to reshuffle his cabinet following the underwhelming performance of his center-right party in the European Parliament election.
According to a statement from the prime minister’s office, the new cabinet lineup will be announced by the government spokesman at 11:30 a.m. (0830 GMT).
Mitsotakis’ New Democracy party, which has led Greece since 2019, secured 28.3% of the vote in Sunday’s EU election.
However, this fell short of the 33% target he had set during his re-election campaign and was significantly lower than the 40% his party achieved in the June 2023 national election.
Greek politics operates within a parliamentary representative democratic republic, featuring a President as head of state and a Prime Minister as head of government.
The Hellenic Parliament is a unicameral legislature with 300 members elected for four-year terms. Major political parties include the center-right New Democracy (ND), the left-wing SYRIZA, the center-left PASOK – Movement for Change (KINAL), the far-left Communist Party of Greece (KKE), and the right-wing Greek Solution.