Mitsotakis says EU elections a first step for 'bigger political change'

Conservative opposition leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis called on Greeks to provide New Democracy with a "wide and clear" win in the upcoming European elections, saying they could be "the first step for a bigger political change."
He blasted Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras for providing cover for Alternate Health Minister Pavlos Polakis, after the latter suggested that an MEP candidate with New Democracy had used affirmative action laws to get a state job, and accused him of offering handouts and tax cuts to lure back disenchanted voters.
"You tried to change the agenda. To give very little from everything you took in the past four years. But Greeks who pay your taxes ...see your panic. They see your effort to fool them again," he told Tsipras.
Mitsotakis accused the prime minister of "blackmailing" his party MPs to support the government or "lose power," noting that the...