Minor reshuffle to rectify weaknesses

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Wednesday made targeted interventions in the composition of his government to enhance, as a senior official said, "its effectiveness."

More specifically, the decision to replace the political leadership of the Ministry of Citizen Protection, both minister and deputy minister, were made to bolster the conservative administration's security agenda.

Amid the elevation of crime as the second biggest problem for citizens behind high prices and the re-emergence of domestic terrorism as well as a series of other failures, the changes were seen as inevitable.

The return of Michalis Chrysochoidis for a fifth term in the Ministry of Citizen Protection triggered a small domino effect in the cabinet.

Adonis Georgiadis, who also served there in the conservative government of Antonis Samaras in the previous decade, moved to the...