Ministry of the Interior and Administrative Reconstruction

Prime Minister-elect Kyriakos Mitsotakis said New Democracy's sweeping victory in Sunday's general election had significance for Europe as well as Greece, pointing to the defeat of neo-Nazi Golden Dawn which crashed out of Parliament.

The government is believed to have lined up a series of legislative amendments to push through Parliament next week before the House is dissolved ahead of a snap general election on July 7, Kathimerini understands.

A few dozen members of a crowd gathered outside the historic Athens Polytechnic building to mark the November 17 anniversary of a 1973 student uprising against Greece's military dictatorship lashed out a group of leftist government officials who came to pay their respects at a memorial to the movement's victims on Friday morning.

Minister of Interior Panagiotis Kouroumblis reiterated the hackneyed argument that government uses to answer about its austerity measures, claiming that Greek people voted for the Memorandum last September and therefore no one has the right to complain about the measures.

President of Hellenic Republic Prokopis Pavlopoulos and Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras attended the doxology for the New Year at Dionysiou Areopagitou church officiated by Archbishop Hieronymus.

Archbishop Ieronymos wished a blessed, creative and peaceful New Year.

The first official statement on behalf of the Radical Left Coalition (SYRIZA) government was made by Interior Minister Nikos Voutsis, a close co-worker of Prime Minister Alexis Statement. He said that 41 years after the last referendum, the government organized the referendum in just under a week.

The Greek interior minister called on all political parties to back his government's decision to hold a referendum on bailout terms offered by the country's foreign creditors for a cash-for-reforms deal that would stave off a looming default.

Minister of the Interior Nikos Voutsis told Mega channel on Sunday morning that the IMF will not be paid on the 5th of June. Mr. Voutsis underlined that the target is a deal by the end of June and added that “we will not accept the blackmail that wishes for liquidity with a memorandum or bankruptcy”.

A mini-reshuffle of the cabinet is on the cards, a government official has indicated following a decision by authorities to revoke plans to put the Alternate Citizens? Protection Ministry under the auspices of the Justice Ministry.

Friends and family members of jailed terrorist suspects and convicts currently on hunger strike, staged a protest outside Greek Parliament on Syntagma Square on Thursday. Raising a banner in front of the monument of the Unknown Soldier, a popular tourist spot, the protesters called for ?victory? for the prisoners.