PM excludes 11 in government reshuffle

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has sought to rekindle his center-right government's spark with a reshuffle on Friday, excluding 11 members.

The move, which came amid a persistent cost-of-living crisis and a disappointing showing in the European Parliament election, also showed intent to demonstrate policy consistency with the foreign and finance ministers keeping their places.

The changes had enough background to exclude 11 members of the government from the scheme, including four ministers, Kostas Skrekas, Dimitris Kairidis, Domna Michailidou and Lefteris Avgenakis, as well as seven deputy ministers, Harry Theoharis, Stathis Konstantinidis, Christina Alexopoulou, Maximos Senetakis, Maria Kefala, Stavros Keletsis and Yannis Pappas.

A government source initially told Kathimerini that in principle anyone who looks closely at the list of new ministers will see...